[Boatanchors] 1931 CQ Magazine

[Richard Knoppow]

     He may well have.  I have a number of the "Radio" magazines from 
the late 1930s and 1940s as well as some early "CQ"s   The offices of 
"Radio" move around some. They started in Los Angeles and moved at some 
point to Santa Barbara. Eventually the magazine was sold to an east 
coast publisher.   This is the same group who published the "Radio 
Handbook" for many years, the one eventually edited by Bill Orr.  The 
earliest editor was W.W.Smith, the editor of Radio along with Frank C. 
Jones.  The staff listed in January of 1940 included people like Herb 
Becker and Leigh Norton, one of the founders of Penta Labs.  The ad for 
the handbook lists it as the sixth edition so, assuming there was an 
issue every year it must have begun in 1935.  The masthead for Radio 
says it was established in 1917 but there is no history of publication.  
In this number the address of the publisher is Santa Barbara.  I can dig 
out some earlier copies to see when they moved from Los Angeles but the 
old address was on Beverly Blvd I think somewhere around La Cienega.  
That would have been out in the sticks in the mid 1930s.  Hashafisti  
Scratchi does appear in this issue signing his QTH as Sainted Barbers, 
Caulif
On 3/6/2015 7:54 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
>
> Didn't he also have some connection with Sackamenna?  Or was that just 
> one
> of his exclamations?
>
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Dave Hollander wrote:
>
>> Remember Scratch well.
>>
>> He lived in Feenix, Arizona. Unfortunately he was gone by the time I 
>> moved here.
>>
>> Dave N7RK

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