Around 1906, Frederick Bacon, a prominent banjo player, started the Bacon Manufacturing Company to produce banjos – though for the first while other companies actually built them.
By 1920, the Bacon company had taken space in Groton, Connecticut and was actively building banjos of their own design.
In 1922, David L. Day joined the company as a designer; while the banjos produced were then called Bacon and Day, the company name didn’t change.
Bacon, and Bacon and Day, operated independently until 194o when they were purchased by Gretsch; the line was discontinued in 1967.
