The house my dad built for us in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1950 had a metal 
Youngstown kitchen cabinet set. The counter top was black linoleum. It 
was much thicker than typical floor lino, nearly 1/4". According to a 
label inside one of the cupboard doors it had two interesting 
properties: Self-healing, and Antiseptic. If you slightly cut the lino 
with a knife, the cut would heal back together. The top was cut and fit 
custom onsite, but thinking back it must have been a kit of all the 
materials needed, with narrow stainless steel mouldings at edges, etc. 
The front edge rolled over and up underneath. The countertop was still 
in good serviceable condition when we sold the house in 2001, that's 
half a century, plus. There were just two small dings in the top. One 
where a meat cleaver was dropped on it, and another where a gas-flame 
experiment on the gas range got out of hand--I had nothing to do with 
that, I swear, nothing, Richard did it, not me.

Johnny (don't tell my mom) Leeke

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