Talk:Adolph Rickenbacker

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Not a lot of information on the WWW on Mr Rickenbacher that I can see, perhaps I'm doing the wrong searches. Lots and lots of hits, but no biographies, and no date of death. I assume he's no longer alive (he'd be about 1,200 years old).

Several sites mention the renaming of the company to make it less German-sounding, some say at the time of the First World War (which can't be true, the company didn't exist) and some the Second, and one says both. No mention of Mr Rickenbacher changing his own name as well, although some sort of assume he did by referring to him by the ck spelling. This may be pure carelessness of course. Andrewa 06:25, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

From my talk page:

i notice you left a note on the adolph rickenbacker page. he changed his name later than ww1. if you notice the early guitars say it with a bh. eddie rickenbacker change his name during ww1, then became famous. they were cousins and both grew up in columbus ohio. so to help himself he changed his name to the bk version, so people would associate it with eddie. oh and he died in april of 1974. his wife died in 1969. she was the hier to the union 76 fortune. adolph is my great grandfathers brother. my uncle, who is still alive used to live with him when he moved to california. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.43.152.235 (talk) 23:10, 2 April 2007 (UTC).

I'll add some of this to the article, and the whole to http://source.pbwiki.com/ where I think it belongs. Andrewa 03:22, 4 April 2007 (UTC)