Read the Burlington News, Oct. 1958
Special thanks to Richard Card, BHS class of 1960. He lived on Fairfax Street and became an in-house photographer at RCA. More on Burlington’s role in putting astronauts on the moon here.
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I was in the 9th grade when RCA came to Burlington. I can remember that the principal MR Horton had an assembly of the entire high school and had a RCA stereo on the stage and played a record demonstrating the sound “moving”. I think that one of the things on the record was a training moving down the track. I might be wrong on that but it demonstrated the effects of records on a stereo. Also I was in the high school band and we payed at the grand opening of the factory. The Tewksbury Band played with us. Arthur Fiedler (director of the Boston Pops) was one of the dignitaries on the stage. When it came time for us to play the national anthem. Our band director went over to him. and asked him if he would direct us. When I went home I went home and asked my mother who he was. That is my claims to fame that I was in a band that was directed by Arthur Fiedler.
A deserved claim to fame.
That paper looks like it went to the moon & back!
Thank you for posting a good read!
I love the small town feel Burlington had in the 1950s.
They did night vision systems for tanks. The tanks would ride the trails out the backwoods, at night. I worked with a wonderful engineer who had a career working in RCA bedford, and he said those days, the RCA company had a full, professional library for the Engineers.
RCA was constructed on the bank of Vine Brook. Vine Brook was our Mississippi River, and we made a raft, and were Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. RCA used the Kent House to park the tank, and stored their company Christmas decorations in there. There was a historic barn at the Kent House, with a bat colony, and a trash dump outside where we dug old bottles, which I still have. We played in the frog pond during summer, behind the Kent House. We ice skated in Winter, and played pond hockey. We used our jack knives and carved our intials on the tree stumps in the woods. Many years later, I revisited the site to reminisce those happy and free days, and I found our initials on an old tree stump, which I cut and saved. We found the stoned lined water well to the Kent House, under a board, in the woods.
We had a short cut, behind Star Market and across Vine Brook, to get into the RCA property. Next door to RCA was GCA. I had a job at GCA. Next to GCA was ECR. I had a job at ECRM. Next to ECRM was Computervision. I did not have a job at Computervision. All these companies resided on the bank of the Vine Brook.
My Dad worked at RCA in the 60’s and I worked at Computervision in the late 70’s.
Emil Nadonly was owner of the Burlington News. Good family!
I lived 100yds from the IGA. use to go to the store for my Mom when she was pregnant with my brother for bread, Similac, cigarettes, etc. The folks at the IGA
use to walk me thru the store and then walked me home with what I went for. Try that today! Great memories innocent times.
I use to hang out with one of the Nadonly boys when I was a teenager..