Jan Worthen wrote:

“My dad, Elgin Fremont Worthen, had a booth on sound and stereo at the Fair. Word had it that Motorola wanted him to go work for them in Chicago, and my mother wouldn’t budge. That was an argument I’d hear for many years. He later had the first TV (Worthen Labs then) in the State of NH, zooming it up from Channel 4 in Boston. I had corrected both the NH, Manchester Union Leader newspaper, and our local Channel 9, WMUR-TV. For they were NOT the first to have tv here. The Worthen history goes back on our side to the Revolutionary War. My dad was an electronic engineer, and our Ancestor Major Ezekiel Worthen was also an engineer, back before the Revolution broke out.”

I would like to find more information about EF Worthen and Worthen Labs. We are not even sure which pavilion house the booth at the Fair, so you know anything about the man or the Lab, please contact me. I think this would be an interesting addition to the web site. and a wonder bit of American Fair History.

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