RCA and You

[old_tv_nut]

RCA salaried employees handbook. Not dated, but judging from the pictures of roundies and rectangular sets, plus TK-41 and TK-42 cameras, this is from the late 60s.

Annual business volume $2 Billion; 90,000 employees = $22,222 per employee.

[EDIT: it's "You and RCA"]

(10.4 MB) pdf file)
http://www.bretl.com/tvarticles/docu...hbklate60s.pdf

[rca2000]

Oh....to be able to take a semi back in time to the page 16 and get all of those CTC-15 color sets!!

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by rca2000

Oh....to be able to take a semi back in time to the page 16 and get all of those CTC-15 color sets!!

You might have trouble getting such a rig up to 88 MPH.

[rca2000]

ANd page 25 too!!

[reeferman]

Dr Engstrom became Chairman of the Executive Committee of RCA on Jan 1, 1966.

[Sandy G]

Elmer Engstrom never received a doctorate, according to what I've read in that WONDERFUL book, "Behind the Tube". But apparently he was very fair & well liked guy. He must have been short in stature, his nickname, used by only a few of his closest friends/associates, was "Shorty". Once at an annual Christmas party, the wife of one of his associates, who had apparently had a pretty good snootful, rushed up to him, put her arms around him, & asked if it was alright if SHE could call him "Shorty" ? Engstrom reportedly told her she had a pretty dress, & the embarrassed husband, grabbed her & pulled her away from Engstrom.

[reeferman]

No where can I find where he received his Doctorate.
In this link the quoted RCA eulogy calls him Dr.
http://www.cedmagic.com/mem/whos-who...rom-elmer.html
The employee handbook does not refer to him as Dr., nor David Sarnoff as General.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by reeferman

..., nor David Sarnoff as General.

Speaking of RCA history, an old coworker I knew from my days at RCA Labs tells me that the place is pretty much abandoned, most of the floor space empty and essentially boarded up. And that the old Sarnoff "shrine" they had off the company library has been cleaned out of all the artifacts related to color TV development and other such from the early years of RCA. Given to some museum? I did have occasion to drive past the place on Route 1, and it did look abandoned, that nobody mowed the grass.

[NewVista]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

I did have occasion to drive past the place on Route 1, and it did look abandoned, that nobody mowed the grass.

~3770 Rt 1?

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by NewVista

~3770 Rt 1?

Just northeast of Washington Rd.

[Sandy G]

Sad..

[egrand]

Last I read was that all the old RCA and NBC records were being donated to Princeton University. The Sarnoff Library had a major flood a few years ago and lots of records got soaked. What I read was the cost to salvage the stuff did them in and they had to close up. Princeton said it would be at least a couple of years before they could make it available again for research since they had to sort and catalog everything.

[Retspin]

I wonder if there is anything left of RCA that GE hasn't sold off? They recently sold out the rest of their interest in NBC to Comcast. From what I have read GE basically bought RCA and broke it up. Its a shame they sold out, must have been a bloodbath.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Retspin

, must have been a bloodbath.

I was there....

[JBL_1]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

I was there....

I was at RCA in Indianapolis