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Vote for your favorite '80s cover!
The SDM covers in the 80s featured a little bit of everything: polyester suits, a long-range radio antenna, installers, police officers, reenacted false alarms -- even McGruff the Crime Dog, the iconic figure debuted in 1980 by the National Crime Prevention Council, made it on a cover, asking the alarm industry to "Take a Bite out of Crime." Place your vote for your favorite 80s cover now!
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SDM in the 1980s: An Expanding Industry
As the security industry expanded during the 1980s, SDM reflected the changes. Now under the new management — having been acquired in 1979 by Newton, Mass.-based Cahners Publishing Co., but published out of its Chicago office — SDM got a new staff as well as a new look during the 1980s.
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SDM in the 1970s: A Magazine Is Born
SDM’s first editor, Walter Matthews, wrote in the inaugural edition, “Magazines are usually born when a need for them exists, and they die when they are no longer needed. How successful they are between birth and death depends entirely upon how well they fill that need.”
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Vote for your favorite '70s cover!
Love
idea of The World's Largest Patrol Service (July/August 1972)? Remember
the products featured in Dialers and Digital Communications (February
1978)? Are you smiling about the clothes featured in
Dealer-Manufacturer Relations (August 1979)? Place your vote for your
favorite 70s cover now!
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Welcome...
Throughout the year, we're
celebrating how SDM has been meeting the needs of the industry the last
40 years. We'll be adding new material throughout the year and digging
into the archives to look back at the articles, news stories, people,
products, photos, SDM covers and changes in the industry that have
graced the pages of SDM. Check back regularly to learn more about the
rich history of SDM magazine and to give us your thoughts and
participate in activities such as voting for your favorite cover from
across the decades.
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