Re: Beagle Bros

[Roby Sherman <rxsherm@uswest.net>]

Thanks for the info. You don't happen to also know who currently owns the rights
to the logo, etc? Is it Quality?

Thanks!

--Roby

The Apple II Mail Group wrote:

> I am not sure of the story of the two characters in the logo. I believe I may
> have heard it was original art. However, I was told the story of the "Bros" at
> a HAAUG meeting in about 1990  where Randy Brandt was our guest. Randy said
> that Bert Kersey wanted to call the company "Beagle Boys," but was afraid of a
> problem with Disney, who published Donald Duck comic books using the Beagle
> Boys characters. Bert already had the logo, so he needed a name which fit in
> the space. Thus it became "Bros" and is not "Brothers." When you called there
> in the 1990's (when Beagle was owned by Mark Simonsen), they answered the
> telephone "Beagle Bros" (- with Bros pronounced "Broze" with a long O). The
> Beagle, of course, comes from Bert's beagle, Sophie.
>
> Beverly Cadieux
> http://members.aol.com/A2MG