The talking machine world (July-Dec 1926)

140 THE TALKING MACHINE WORLD October 15, 1926 Annual Pacific Northwest Radio Show Is Feature of Month in Portland Trade Exposition Attracts Crowds Exceeding 15,000 — Practically All Manufacturers Are Represented by Exhibits — Wiley B. Allen Co. Discontinues Portland Branch — Other News Portland, Ore., October 6. — The second annual Pacific Northwest Radio Exposition, held at the public auditorium September 21 to 25, inclusive, drew over 15,000 persons. The show was a complete success from every standpoint, the 100 booths exhibiting the finest and best from practically every important radio manufacturer in the country, while the entertainment features were of the highest standard. * The Oregon association was host to out-oftown radio men, on opening night, holding a banquet at the Hotel Portland in their honor, all attending the opening of the show in a body. Among the exhibitors were: Western Auto Supply Co., Air patrol receiving sets; StewartWarner Speedometer Corp., Stewart-Warner sets, speakers and tubes; Sherman, Clay & Co., Gilfillan receiving sets; Stubbs Electric Co., Kolster, Grebe receiving sets, Cunningham tubes and Eveready batteries; H. A. Killam-A. S. Lindstrom Co., Apex receiving sets, Balkite trickle chargers and power units, Dudlo wire and small parts; C. E. Gay, Ferguson and Thorola and Utah loud speakers, Silver-Marshall, Marco and other parts, Storad eliminators; Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co., Kellogg receiving sets and speakers; Lipman, Wolfe & Co., Stromberg-Carlson, Freshman; Freeman's Radio Shop, Kellogg receiving sets and speakers; Vern L. Wenger Music Co., Kolster and Radiola receiving sets and loud speakers; Howard Radio Distributing Co., Howard receiving sets; Velvetone Radio Corp., Velvetone; National Carbon Co., Eveready batteries; P. J. Cronin Co., King receiving sets. Peerless and Utah loud speakers. Majestic "B" eliminators; Gould Battery Co., Multnomah "A" and "B" batteries, Syncromonic receiving sets, Thorola loud speakers; J. F. Morrell Co., Vesta batteries and accessories; Q R S Music Co., Red Top tubes; Radio Headquarters, Atwater Kent, Fada, Howard and Radiola receiving sets; Portland Music Co., Radiola receiving sets and loud speakers; Marshall-Wells Co., Crosley and Freed-Eisemann receiving sets and loud speakers; Sunset Electric Co., Atwater Kent receiving sets and loud speakers, USL wet batteries, Eveready batteries, Cunningham tubes; Electric Corp., Federal, Magnavox and Stromberg-Carlson receiving sets and loud speakers; Northwest Auto Equipment Co., Crosley receiving sets, Utah loud speakers, parts; Meier & Frank Co., Atwater Kent, Radiola, Grebe and other receiving sets; Oregon Institute of Technolog\ Y. M. C. A. radio school; Portland Broadcast Listeners' association; Hallock & Watson Radio Corp., Halowat receiving sets; Bob Smith Antenna service; Brown's Radio Shop, Federal, Radiola, Crosley, Stromberg-Carlson receiving sets; Precision Electric Manufacturing Co., battery chargers, eliminators and parts; L. C. Warner Co., Fada receiving sets, Fada and Farrand loud speakers. Majestic "B" eliminators, Exide batteries; Willard Storage Battery Co., batteries and battery eliminators; Lockwood-Morrison Co., Globe, Shamrock and Splitdorf receiving sets, Splitdorf and Western Electric loud speakers. Western Electric power units; Lectro Manufacturing & Sales Co., Magnavox, Kolster and Shamrock receiving sets; Detsch & Co., Wadsworth loud speakers, Sterling meters, etc.; Langhorne Manufacturing Co., Custom built Infratdyne receiving sets; Philbin Manufacturing Co., Philbin trickle chargers and "A" and "B" battery chargers; National Lead Battery Co., National batteries; E. L. Knight Electric Co., electric radio supplies; Grand Electric Co., Atwater Kent receiving sets and loud speakers; Pacific States Electric Co. and Radio Corporation of America, Radiola receiving sets, loud speakers and tubes. After doing business in Portland for fiftythree years the Wiley B. Allen Co. announces that it will close out its local store at 148 Fifth street and retire from the Pacific Northwest field. For the accommodation of former customers the firm will maintain an administration and service office in Portland. Arthur Bergh, of New York, musical supervisor of the Columbia Phonograph Co., paid Portland a visit for the purpose of recording Cole McElroy's Spanish Ballroom Orchestra for the Columbia Co. This is said to be the first time that a recording expedition has been made to the Pacific Northwest. This expedition, sent out of New York City, made records last week in Seattle, before coming to Portland. Jackie Senders Orchestra, of the Olympic Hotel, and Douglas Richardson, radio singing star, were recorded there. Cole McElroy's orchestra was put under an exclusive Columbia contract tor a period. "When one stops to think that Paul Whiteman, George Olsen, Art Hickman and Paul Ash were Pacific Coast hits before they made their bows to the East, one realizes why we are out here making records of the outstanding orchestras," Mr. Bergh said. "We are using Pacific Coast compositions almost exclusively in these West Coast recordings, to give the records an additional Western tang. We are establishing a record-making plant at Oakland, so as to get the discs to dealers a good deal in advance of present practice." Assisting Mr. Bergh in the recording here were R. T. Friebus, electrical engineer, and John Gloetzner, recording technician, both of New York; W. H. Lawton, of Seattle, Northwest sales manager, and Randall Bargelt, sales representative of Portland. L. D. Heater, prominent distributor of phonographs, Okeh and Odeon records, radios and m.usical merchandise, announces having taken over the distribution of the Ultra-Phonic reproducer, made by the Audak Co., and reports splendid success with this little accessory, of which the first shipment is completely sold out, with advance orders already taking care of the second shipment. George K. Brown, formerly assistant manager of the Columbia Phonograph Co., of Los Angeles, has been appointed by Mr. Heater to look after his southern California interests. L. Lundsford, formerly of Wills Music Store, of Salem, Ore., and who opened a .Portland store at Sixth and Salmon street, known as the Portland Music Co., placing it under the management of B. H. Barber, has gone into business for himself in Salem and established an attractive and well-stocked store in that city at 355 North High street. T. K. 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