Good Poop: Worker’s Comp – The 2nd Day
On Monday, October 2, 1978, I started working for Klipsch and Associates. On Tuesday I was introduced to the “on-boarding” program, which at that time included actually building a Klipschorn woofer...
View ArticleGood Poop: PWK Car Loan
In 1979, returning from our first vacation while working for Klipsch, my wife and I encountered a deer at 70 MPH. That was in Nashville, TN, and it extended our vacation by a few days. We patched up...
View ArticleGood Poop: PWK the Practical Joker
In the fall of 1974, future Klipsch Chief Engineer Gary Gillum sent PWK a present. At the time Gary worked for Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO contributing to rides and illusory attractions. The gift...
View ArticleGood Poop: The Orr Auction
J. Herbert Orr of Opelika, Alabama started the Orradio manufacturing company after WWII. According to Wikipedia, he produced “the first commercially available audio tape, video tape and computer tape...
View ArticleGood Poop: The First Time I Saw Paul W. Klipsch
Way back in 1976, I found myself in Philadelphia for my first professional society meeting – the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE International Conference on ICASSP. (Whew! What a...
View ArticleGood Poop: Why Me?
In 1978, Paul W. Klipsch’s interest in building his own drivers resulted in my invitation to Hope for an interview that summer. I was working at Rola, one of the oldest OEM driver suppliers, having...
View ArticleGood Poop: Dining with a Legend
During the late 1970’s and early 80’s, it was a fairly regular Friday night event for Klipsch engineers to “eat fish” with Paul W. Klipsch (PWK) and his wife, Valerie, at the Hope Holiday Inn (now a...
View ArticleGood Poop: The Definition of the PWK Logo
In 1989 Paul Klipsch sold Klipsch & Associates to Fred Klipsch. One of the first inquiries raised by the newly-organized marketing department was, “Is there any hidden meaning to the famous...
View ArticleGood Poop: Joe Edwin Holland
Legendary drummer Joseph “Joe” Holland has a unique and colorful origin and story, to the say the least. His career has been a string of interesting stories, celebrity encounters and time spent with...
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