Cincinnati, OH
The Hagen Advertising Displays Inc was established in the 1950’s era by Leonard Hagen located in Cincinnati, OH. Hagen Advertising Displays Inc began as a manufacturer of lighted advertising signs, neons, and clocks for various industries and companies across the country. The style signs that they were most well known for were electric lighted signs which included bar back signs, lighted clocks, and reverse-painted glass lighted signs.
One of the largest industries that the Hagen Advertising Display Company produced advertising signs for was breweries and the distilling industries. The only other sign manufacturing competitor in the country that was making similar signs was the Ohio Advertising Display Company located in Lima, OH.
The brewing industry was very large at the time and Hagen Adv. Inc. produced and manufactured back-lit lighted signs which would have been displayed on the bar back and countertops of bars, taverns, and beer distributors for various breweries across the county.
The Hagen Advertising Displays Inc. made various bar backlighted signs and clocks for breweries like Old Dutch, Rolling Rock, Latrobe, Krantz, and Bulls Eye just to name a few.
