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It was selling everything from radar detectors and stereo speakers to security lighting systems, hand-held photocopiers, and televisions with two-inch screens. [ 7 ] Kaplan's 1 ⁄ 4 -inch-thick (6.4 mm) DAK catalogue was mailed across the United States and Canada, and its hallmark was the unusual first-person style of the ads, each with Kaplan ...
[3] [4] Architectural work was handled by George Nimmens Company. [5] The building was erected in six months, using materials that were all made in Los Angeles County, with the exception of the steel window sashes. [6] To accomplish the feat, the contractor had six steam shovels and a large labor force working night and day shifts.
Uline was founded in 1980 by Elizabeth "Liz" and Richard "Dick" Uihlein. Richard Uihlein is a descendant of the brewers of Schlitz beer. [1] With start-up funds from his father, Edgar Uihlein, Richard and Elizabeth founded the company from their basement after recognizing a local need for a shipping supply distributor.
In 1947, Bernard Field and Hyman Fink opened the Akron Army & Navy Stores on Sunset Blvd. between Virgil Place and Fountain Avenue by selling mostly army surplus goods. Their first newspaper ad appeared in the October 31, 1947, issue of the Hollywood Citizen-News, and their first magazine ad was seen in the classified ad section of the December 1948 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine for 2 ...
1975 Western Auto Garden Tiller. Western Auto was known for its private labelled Western Flyer Bicycle and Performance Radial GT tire brand. Other Western Auto private-labeled brands included Davis tires, Tough One batteries, TrueTone electronics, Citation appliances, Wizard tools, and Wizard typewriters — the latter as re-branded typewriters manufactured by Brother Industries of Nagoya, Japan.
A 1934 article in the Los Angeles Evening Post-Record showed that Blackman's grocery store, White Front Market, was located at 7710 South Central Avenue [8] and a 1940 ad in the Los Angeles Times also showed the market was still at the same address six years later. [9] At first, the small store did not sell non-food items such as small tube radios.
PAL U-matic Hi-band increased the FM carrier frequency to 4.8-6.4 MHz, while U-matic SP increased it even further to 5.6-7.2 MHz, while increasing the color carrier frequency to 924 kHz. [7] U-matic tape moves at 3.75 inches per second, and has a tape writing speed of 8.54 meters per second for PAL or 10.26 for NTSC.
Lorcin Engineering Company was a firearms manufacturer established in 1989 by Jim Waldorf. [1] Lorcin produced a series of very inexpensive handguns, which were sold primarily through pawn shops and marketed to people with low income.