Ruth and Maurie Amon were the owners, and as they explained in a 1955 ad, “Five years ago, we decided that we wanted to become a part of this community. Neither one of us are natives of this area, yet we, by chance, lived here and came to know some wonderful people. We felt it was a good place to call “home.”
“It seemed our abilities and interests would lend themselves to the appliance business and on June 16, 1950, “Acco Appliance” came into being."
While you might think that the Acco ad has a Christmas theme (since it shows a woman dressed in a Santa suit and holding a fishing rod), it ran in the Lorain Journal on March 20, 1952 – 64 years ago this month.
The ad promotes Crosley televisions, which promised “full room vision” via the wide-angle theater screen. You can see the two models shown in the Acco ad in this full-page ad from the December 4, 1959 issue of Life magazine.
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Like many other families in the late 1950s and early 60s, we had one of these types of televisions (although I don’t know what brand it was) – a huge wooden box that took a while to warm up. Plus, when you turned it off, you saw a little white light for a while.
I’m going to have to scrounge up a photo of that thing that had such a big influence on my life.
I’m going to have to scrounge up a photo of that thing that had such a big influence on my life.