[Milsurplus] "Have You Actually Ever Heard this S.O.B. ?"

Hubert Miller Kargo_cult at msn.com
Thu Apr 1 19:35:12 EDT 2021


I was organizing paper the other day when I came across some Hallicrafters advertising pages.
These were bound together in a folder supplied to Hallicrafters retail sellers. One page was the
infamous "Have you actually ever heard this S.O.B. ? " poster, the one with the sketched
caricature of a bearded man in uniform ranting on a podium before broadcast microphones.
I was thinking of scanning this and maybe sharing, but first I tried to look up the subject. I found
one website with a visitor comment that the ad poster was a total fake. Well, it's not a fake.
But there's no way Hallicrafters company would have published any advert materials using
even slightly offensive language. Additionally, there are some horizontal lines at bottom
right to simulate typical advertising flyer text. The poster's inclusion however in a Hallicrafter
dealer's catalog tells me someone upstream from there, in the Hallicrafters wholeselling structure
created this, kind of a joke. This btw came out of a 1964 Hallicrafters binder. OTs will know
the history reference here but younger folks might find it a mystery.
BTW also, Hallicrafters never accepted my suggestion of an ad idea either: "Colonel Rudolf
Abel relies on Hallicrafters - the Spy Man's Radio".  You probably have to be an O.T. to know
that story also, or even to know what O.T. is.
-Hue Miller

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