The five Bell brothers attended a 1961 family get-together in Burlington, Wisconsin. The linked article below explores their successes in the radio industry and other enterprises. It originally appeared in the Burlington Standard Press on July 6, 1961.
This article does not cover the Jackson-Bell era; it focuses instead on Packard-Bell. Radio collectors and historians will find small details here that help fill gaps in the Bell family’s story of success.
You will find information on the businesses each of the brothers was involved in and how their successes interplayed with the efforts of the rest of the family. Some of these businesses continued to thrive well into the 1980s.
Floyd Paul’s donated archives at the Los Angeles Library contained a copy of this publication. I contacted the newspaper publisher to request a better copy. He kindly made additional unused images available for use here. One of these images is shared above.