Gotham Museum

So much of Gotham's past vanished after the dissolution of the original New York companies. As time and funding permit, we are gradually rebuilding an archive of older catalogs, sales literature and technical papers. In these efforts we depend on the assitance of those who have kept these materials in their files for decades.

We gratefully acknowledge the kindness of Cliff Henricksen, a veteran engineer and inventor who has held key senior technical positions at Altec-Lansing, Community, Electro-Voice and Bose Corporation. In December 2013, Cliff donated the following valuable documents to our Gotham archives:

We now have on file a 63 page PDF of the 1959 Gotham Sales Co. General Catalog. The catalog includes full descriptive literature on many products from Neumann. Beyer. AGFA and others. Of particular interst are the cut sheets for the U-47 microphone and the Neumann and Gotham disk cutting products. The catalog also includes Gotham price lists dated September 1, 1959. The PDF can be found on-line at AmericanRadioHistory.com Archive. We have printed up a few color copies which we are pleased to supply for $12.00 each to cover costs of copying and mailing.

We also wish to acknowledge the kindness of Mark Fichman, Peter Engel, C.D. Smith and Alex Martin who have provided us with important bits of Gotham history. The Fichman family had preserved a copy of the Europadisk DMM Sixtieth Birthday Souvenier Album which Stephen F. Temmer commissioned for his birthday celebrations in 1988. It consists of recordings made by Temmer in the 1950's and features some of the first US recording sessions with the Neumann U-47, as well as some of the early recordings (1951-1955) that Temmer made at the studios of the Gotham Recording Corporation.

We have created digital safeties of this unique piece of Gotham history so as to make its contents available to audio/music historians and researchers. Special thanks to Bob Ludwig, Gateway Mastering, for his invaluable assistance with this project.

Bob Ludwig and Klaus Heyne have made invaluable contributions to our knowledge of the Neumann products that Gotham distributed.

Special thanks to Christopher Preston of South Wales, NY for his diligence and assistance in searching out and preserving Gotham Audio's sales literature and service manuals. Chris, as a dedicated and responsible member of the audio community, has applied for and received licenses from Gotham Audio LLC to reproduce and distribute historical materials bearing the distinctive Gotham Audio trademark.