Underground
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| Underground house-brand lens, compact 28mm in OM mount image by Voxphoto (Image rights) |
Underground Camera, Inc. was the name of a small chain of photography stores centered in New England, USA,[1] operated by the Katz family. The company ran into trouble after overextending, and closed at the end of the 1980s.[2] While the name sounds like a 1960s counterculture reference, in fact the company was founded in 1957 in Massachusetts.
The Underground name[3] was also used as its house brand on a line of rebadged imported lenses and accessories—sometimes just appearing as "UGC."
Notes
- ↑ Popular Photography magazine ads running in 1982 showed numerous Massachusetts locations as well as others in Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
- ↑ A 1989 UPI news item outlines some of the details.
- ↑ Filed as a trademark in 1981.
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