Curtis Mathes, Inc. is a North American electronics retailer originally based in Garland, Texas, and specializes in the sale of private brand label electronics and repair services. The company produced its own television brand in Athens, Texas until July 31, 1982; ten years later, he filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy and reorganization that enabled him to remain in business and use future earnings to pay off creditors. The company is now based in Frisco, Texas.
Known for his ads touting television as "America's most expensive and valuable television set", the company is credited with introducing a longer guarantee for electronic retailing.
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The Curtis Mathes Corporation began in 1919 as Connor and Mathes, manufacturers and retailers of automobiles and tractor parts. In the late 1920s, the company moved into the air conditioning industry. It also produced wooden cabinets and finally furniture, acquired Hub Furniture in 1942. The leading products through the 1930s and 40s were electric fans, many styles built into special cabinets and permanent window enthusiasts. In the early '50s the company added "center" or "attic fan" to its inventory. It draws air from all the open windows to the attic where it also ventilated the attic making the house cooler.
When compressors were introduced commercially in the late 40s, Fort Worth's Curtis Mathes factory began making compressors that could be used in cars or buildings. Leonard L. Northrup, Jr., became one of Curtis Mathes Products' distributors including developing and selling the first air conditioning units used in Cadillac.
In the late 1940s, Mathes Curtis Company diversified into radio, having developed a large central radio for the living room into art. It is therefore logical that this approach will work on television as well.
Television
The Curtis Mathes Corporation was founded in 1957 and soon entered the television industry, setting up factories in Tarrant and County Dallas and in Athens, Texas, eventually moving most of its factories to the enormous Athens facility. From 1968 to 1988 it was the only American wholly-owned electronic company and the only American television manufacturer.
In the late 1960s, Leonard L. Northrup, Jr., purchased a controlling stake in Donmark Corporation, a manufacturer of residential air conditioners and heating equipment from his lifelong friend Curtis Mathes, Sr., as Curtis Mathes moved towards electronics.
Over the next few years Curtis Mathes works to design modular TVs and modular TV chassis and parts, so the warranty service will involve rapid transfer of sections, tubes, tuners, or picture tubes. These all have snap-in connectors and are held in place by non-solder brackets or screws. He envisioned a TV that would not require costly repairs, and from the beginning began offering a 4-year warranty on picture tubes, parts and labor.
In the mid-1970s and the rise of solid state electronics, Mathes had achieved results. TV consists of 11 parts: 7 circuit boards, tuners, picture tubes and transformers, plus cabinet. A repairman carries all ten electronic components in his truck and repair calls rarely last more than 20 minutes. At home it costs $ 20, and is free at the store.
Curtis Mathes TVs used for rentals (such as Colortyme) are sometimes renamed "Rutherford".
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After Curtis Mathes Jr.
On June 2, 1983, the second chairman, George Curtis Mathes Jr., 54, was one of 23 passengers who died in the Air Canada Flight 797 fire. The company then began to decline, leaving from the peak of 5,000 employees and seven manufacturing facilities to about 50 employees in the year 1988 when it was sold to Enhanced Electronics. At the time of this sale, it was a wholly owned wholly-owned electronics company in the US.
For a time, the company sold equipment sourced from Matsushita, Pioneer, Thomson, Samsung, Daewoo, Toshiba, and other manufacturers.
2000s
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Curtis Mathes brand became an in-house brand for the Kmart discount chain. By the end of 2007, Curtis Mathes had reappeared with products marketed at discount retailers such as Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Meijer and Target. Starting in 2013, Curtis Mathes expanded its portfolio into LED lighting.
In popular culture
TV sets used for monitors in science fiction films 1990 Total Recall .
TV sets used In the final scene in the 1985 movie "To Live and Die in LA"
References
External links
- http://www.curtismathes.com/
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