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In 1874, the Brunswick company merged with competitor Great Western Billiard Manufactory owned by Julius Balke to become the J. M. Brunswick & Balke Company. It was incorporated in 1879 with a capital stock of $275,000, the same year it merged with another competitor, H. W. Collender Company of New York City (founded by Hugh W. Collender), to ...
In April 1930, Brunswick-Balke-Collender sold Brunswick Records to Warner Bros., and the company's headquarters moved to New York. [4] Warner Bros. hoped to make their own soundtrack recordings for their sound-on-disc Vitaphone system. A number of interesting recordings were made by actors during this period, featuring songs from musical films.
On April 9, 1930, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company sold its Brunswick and Vocalion trademarks, patents, master recordings, inventory of unsold records, recording studio leases, radio/phonograph manufacturing plants and record pressing plants to Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. (WB), which named its new division the "Brunswick Radio Corporation ...
William Robertson Boggs (1829–1911), Confederate Army General; Richard Thurmond Chatham (1896–1957), businessman, politician; Thomas Henry Davis (1918–1999), aviator, founder of Piedmont Airlines
North of Winston-Salem on NC 65, SR 1611, 1628, and 1688; also roughly the area outside the original district west and north along Muddy Creek, south to Reynolda Rd., and east along Walker Rd. 36°10′51″N 80°20′16″W / 36.180833°N 80.337778°W / 36.180833; -80.337778 ( Bethania Historic
Brunswick had begun assembling bowling equipment in Dublin in 1959, but it closed its Italian factory in 1966 and the Dublin facility in 1972. Then, in 1973, it entered into a manufacturing joint venture with Fuji Kikai-Hiroshima. In 2005 Brunswick moved its bowling ball production to Reynosa, Mexico, and in 2006 it closed the Muskegon plant. [9]
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1956 – Wake Forest College relocates to Winston-Salem. 1960 – Winston-Salem exceeds 100,000 for the first time. 1965 Hanes Corporation headquartered in city. [20] Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts established. [21] Parkway Theatre opens. [17] 1966 – Wachovia Building (hi-rise) constructed. 1967 – November: Racial unrest. [8]