Radko bought the Shiny-Brite name in the late '90s and started selling replicas of the old Shiny-Brite glass ornaments in 2001. Even the Shiny-Brite boxes are the same.

LEWISTON — For more than a decade starting in 1959, a Lewiston factory looked something like a Christmas workshop as it churned out millions of brightly colored ornaments. Paragon Glass Works ...

The “sun” garden glitters by day and glows by night. Interspersed among phlox, catmint, purple Japanese irises, and red bee balm are sparkling blue and yellow glass flowers and solar-powered globes ...

Glass Christmas ornaments produced by Paragon Glass Works in Lewiston in the 1960s. (Photo provided) These Glass Christmas ornaments were made by Lewiston’s Paragon Glass Works a half century ago.

The “sun” garden glitters by day and glows by night. Interspersed among phlox, catmint, purple Japanese irises, and red bee balm are sparkling blue and yellow glass flowers and solar-powered ...

They weren't made at all anymore by the '70s, and it was just as well; by then, in a nation confused by Vietnam, the sweet pink-and-purple glass ornaments seemed almost naive. Fast-forward to today.

They weren't made at all anymore by the '70s, and it was just as well; by then, in a nation confused by Vietnam, the sweet pink-and-purple glass ornaments seemed almost naive. ADVERTISEMENT ...

They weren't made at all anymore by the ?70s, and it was just as well; by then, in a nation confused by Vietnam, the sweet pink-and-purple glass ornaments seemed almost naive. Fast-forward to today.