[Hallicrafters] Echophone Hogarth Ads

[rbethman]

Richard,

Try looking at Nostalgia Air.

They have two complete pages for Echophone.

<http://www.nostalgiaair.org/Resources/>

They indeed seem to be entirely separate from Hallicrafters.

Just my $0.02 worth.

Regards,
Bob - N0DGN



On 4/7/2014 3:08 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>     WW-2 vintage advertising for Echophone featured a cartoon 
> character named Hogarth. I wonder if anyone knows anything about the 
> artist or agency that created these ads. Some very early ones have a 
> signature in one corner but I am unable to find an example right now. 
> Later ads were of a different style and not signed.  I have done a web 
> search but it does not seem to have this information.
>     Hallicrafters seems to have pushed the Echophone as a morale 
> receiver during the war. I wonder if they were available only to 
> military personel.  The name did not last long after the war, the last 
> Echophone becoming the Hallicrafters S-41.  Very late Echophone ads 
> were introducing the idea of citizen's band radio.
>
>
> -- 
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
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