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A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

45 points by 1970-01-01 2 days ago | 8 comments

wxw 2 hours ago

> The rolodexes came from the now dispersed collection of former lab employee Ed Grothus, who operated a salvage company of lab cast-offs known as The Black Hole.

Too good.

paradox460 53 minutes ago

Many of my childhood science fair projects started at the black hole. You could always find something weird or interesting, and occasionally hot, while browsing through the place

Bluestein 23 minutes ago

> occasionally hot

Am I understanding correctly?

hellisothers 2 hours ago

Love the logos, colors, and at the same time simplicity. These are so much more memorable than what you see today which I find to be bland or over the top “grafix”.

world2vec 18 minutes ago

Seems some of them would get the key contact details "clipped" by the rolodex itself. Maybe a good design would put the phone number and address at the top.

cjkaminski 2 hours ago

A bunch of those names sound fake, like they should be from Fallout instead of Los Alamos.

But then I remember that I know someone who worked at one of those companies.

dcrazy 28 minutes ago

“Universal Voltronics” sounds the most made-up to me. But “Nuclear Defense Research Corporation of New Mexico, Inc.” takes the cake.

SoftTalker 26 seconds ago

I always liked "General Atomics" (though it wasn't among the cards listed). Still opertating today under that name.