File 003 · AgeTech

Record 144 · Health · 1948

48.144.H

Miracle-Ear

Miracle-Ear

Miracle-Ear (1948) by Miracle-Ear

The retail hearing brand that made aids a storefront product after the war.

A hearing aid on the high street.

Miracle-Ear built a franchise of hearing shops across America. For decades this was how people got hearing help: a mall, a test, a pair.

Opened hearing as retail, for good and for the hard sell.

Filed notes

  • Hearing-aid franchise retail
  • In-store fitting
  • National brand

SIC

3842

Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies

NAICS

334510

Electromedical and Electrotherapeutic Apparatus Manufacturing

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