see Zenith's Rauland tube plant on "youtube"

[drh4683]

First off, I give credit of finding this to mr fixer. It was posted in the estate sales thread and wanted it to be seen by others that could have missed it.

This is a 10:50 video of photographs of the Rauland tube plant in Melrose Park, IL. According to the video, the plant opened in 1967, but for some reason I think it was earlier than that. The original Rauland tube plant is still in chicago on N. Knox Ave.

I know for a fact that the plant got demolished in 2003 as I saw it in peices earlier that year. There are many good photos here. Its good to see someone else in the area cared enough about zenith to take some photos before the building was gone.

After looking at the photos, many of them are of the HVAC system in the building and do not neccessarily pertain to the process of CRT assembly.

My uncle was an electrical engineer for zenith, and started there in 1981 and was one of the last to leave in 1998 when he went to indianapolis for thompson after the buyout. He worked at the rauland plant most of those years. Ive heard some bad storys about how the koreans treated the original employees when they bought it out back around 1998. I guess they treated them like dirt and were very arrogant tward the orignal engineering staff and assembly workers. I could go on.....

They were probably jealous because the Zenith and American company was the best and they knew it. We all know how the Americans are responsible for most developments in todays modern society.

We can just watch it fall apart now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RSEIa3TZ6k