The primary type of audience that would be interested in seeing an exhibit of the windproof Zippo® lighter would be smokers, campers and backpackers. The Zippo lighter, produced in Bradford Pennsylvania, has achieved its popularity as a dependable product for lighting cigarettes, pipes and cigars. Zippo lighters are widely recognized around the would because of it has been featured in over 1,500 movies, stage plays and television shows. The famous Zippo "click" has been used in songs and the lighters themselves have been featured on album covers as well as tattooed on famous rockers skin.1 People would be interested in seeing an exhibit dedicated to the Zippo lighter to learn about its beginning in 1932 and the original uses of the first non Zippo lighters used in the first World War. The initial flare of matches was to revealing for American soldiers causing them to be seen by the enemy when lighting a path.
1 http://www.zippo.com/corporateInfo/Zippo_Manufacturing_History
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