The Rise and Fall of Fisher: The Sound of America

In 1955, the Fisher Radio Corporation was the Rolls-Royce of American HiFi. Toscanini owned a Fisher. Stravinsky owned a Fisher. The New York Philharmonic engineers owned Fishers. The company's factory sat on a Manhattan block that would later become part of Lincoln Center. By 1969, Avery Fisher had sold the company to Emerson Electric for $31 million. By 1975, Emerson had sold it to Sanyo. By 2012, the Fisher brand had been phased out entirely by Panasonic. By 2015, Avery Fisher's name had been removed from the Lincoln Center concert hall that had borne it since 1973, sold to David Geffen for $15 million.