A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

Incredible. I was curious to see what I could find for one of the business card:

Dr. Ronald Moskowitz, FerroFluidics (cool name).

Took me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Turns out the guy was a bit of a fraudster and was sentenced to 8 years in prison for securities fraud[1]

1 - https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releas...

The Winter 2016 edition of the Center for Land Use Interpretation's newsletter, "The Lay of the Land", has more information on the cards: https://clui.org/newsletter/winter-2016/los-alamos-rolodex

There's also a book: https://clui-shop.square.site/product/los-alamos-rolodex/292...

I saw the exhibit in person back when it was on display. If you're ever in LA you should try to stop in to the CLUI's Culver City location, they always have something interesting.

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”.

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.

> 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.

So these business cards are from 1940s ? I ask this because on one of the cards the phone number was 10 digits. I would have thought the phone numbers would be shorter.

Anyway, pretty cool to see them in high definition and realize they aren't any different than today's business cards.

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.

Explosive Technology, wow:

https://www.dailyrepublic.com/lifestyle/local-lifestyle-colu...

"Blast-N-Peen" got a good chuckle out of me. On the other end of the spectrum, Ken Riddle at Electronic Memories was unsettlingly spare, a little bit sinister in its lack of graphic expression of any kind.

Love the Plasmadyne logo! And that Xenon card gives me strong TriOptimum vibes.