 Inflatable Images' giant rat is popular on picket lines.
We'll just come right out and say it: There's an elephant in the room at David Scherba's factory. Specifically, a 27-foot-tall pachyderm-shaped balloon. You can't take your eyes off it - and that's the point. Scherba's business, Inflatable Images (inflatableimages.com), is one of the largest manufacturers of nonhelium inflatable advertising in the U.S. At his facility in Brunswick, Ohio, David Scherba, 50, and his brother Robert, 49, have sewn everything from a 50-foot Vince Lombardi Trophy used in Super Bowl pregame shows to the inflated cartoon characters that decorate floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
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