As we continue to work our way through our archive of photos, we run across some that are a bit out of the ordinary. They may be humorous or unique but they stand out from the other photos. We will post new photos here monthly with the previous photos in the slideshow.
Our June Photo of the Month is of Tektronix co-founder Glenn McDowell. Glenn, along with Jack Murdock, Miles Tippery, and Howard Vollum founded Tekrad on January 2, 1946. This is the only photo we have of Glenn.
Glenn was General Manager and Secretary-Treasurer of Hawthorne Electronics as noted in this May 4, 1947 Sunday Oregonian article. Glenn eventually exchanged his Tektronix stock for the Hawthorne Electronics stock, taking full ownership and separating the company from Tektronix and the other founders.
Previous Photos of the Month
- Feb 2019 PoM - Clyde Faber, actual final inspector, poses for February 1957 TekTalk article
- Mar 2019 PoM - Processing selenium rectifiers at the Sunset Plant in 1957
- Apr 2019 PoM - Jim Geddes washing a DEC minicomputer after a water leak dissolved the ceiling tiles - and it worked!
- May 2019 PoM - Howard Vollum & Dennis Hedberg at Oriental Theater with Dynatrack 3M tape recorder in 1969. Photo by Rodgers Jenkins.
- June 2019 PoM - Cable Operations flexible coax shield winding machine. These were repurposed shoelace weavers from the turn of the century.
- July 2019 PoM: Construction of the new Technical Center building 50 from the 1964 Annual Report
- Aug 2019 POM: Howard Vollum at his home organ
- Sept 2019 POM: 511 and 512 oscilloscopes in process at the Hawthorne plant circa 1949
- Oct 2019 POM: Dick Rhiger bench at Hawthorne for the 517 Development
- Nov 2019 POM: Building 39 Assembly East first floor shipping dock (at the building south end) in ~1968
- Dec 2019 POM: 2200 Series Oscilloscope high volume line
- Jan 2020 POM: Hand-taped PCB layout
- Feb 2020 POM: 524AD oscilloscope sent in for repairs
- Mar 2020 POM: Used in Tek lunchrooms to keep the bread fresh
- Apr 2020 POM: Tek received an award for beautification of Oregon from Governor Hatfield. Fall 1966 TekTalk.
- May 2020 POM: John receiving speech therapy at Portland's Tucker-Mason Oral School.
- June 2020 POM: Family Night at Plant 2
- July 2020 POM: Women pointing at a 945 Militarized Oscilloscope. We have no clue.
- Aug 2020 POM: Mysterious vintage dual CRT instrument. We have no idea.
- Sept 2020 POM: Employee performing a 422 portable oscilloscope exploded board test.
- Oct 2020 POM: Wilsonville Bldg 60 prior to the addition of the EMI and Safety lab, ~ late 1970s.
- Nov 2020 POM: Night photo of the entrance to the Sunset plant.
- Dec 2020 POM: Telequipment D83 oscilloscope sent in for repairs.
- Jan 2021 POM: Type 1100 Storage Display Unit. We do not know if this ever was produced.
- Feb 2021 POM: Cliff Moulton working on a prototype of the 519 1 GHz oscilloscope.
- Mar 2021 POM: Telstar development showing 26 Tektronix Instruments - May 1962 National Geographic Magazine
- April 2021 POM: Vaccinations at Tektronix, likely polio in late 1950s
- May 2021 POM: Plasma physics research with a 551 and 555 dual beam oscilloscope and a RM567 sampling oscilloscope
- June 2021 POM: Wide-angle photo of Beaverton campus circa 1964 from Jenkins Road
- July 2021 POM: Eugene Wilson in Test working on a 310
- August 2021 POM: Manufacturing floor of IBM 1401 computer showing numerous Tektronix oscilloscopes
- Sept 2021 POM: MariLe and Cliff Moulton, 1954
- Oct 2021 POM: George Frye testing new design circuits. Photo from the February 1964 Tekalendar
- Nov 2021 POM: 1993 reunion photo of Oliver Dalton's engineering group
- Dec 2021 POM: Prototype T519 CRT with preliminary vertical deflection connectors
- Jan 2022 POM: Bob Cogan winding transformers
- Feb 2022 POM: Tektronix products featured in Meier & Frank storefront window April 1951
- Mar 2022 POM: Placemat of the Tektronix campus probably late 1966 to early 1967
- Apr 2022 POM: Decanting CRT funnels from the August 1964 Tekalendar
- May 2022 POM: Beaverton campus from the mid-1964 - mid 1965 Tektronix catalog
- June 2022 POM: 502A dual beam oscilloscope used at Rodgers Organ
- July 2022 POM: Tektronix oscilloscopes used at the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Tracking station in Australia
- August 2022 POM: 4114 Computer Display Terminal production in Heerenveen
- September 2022 POM: Building 19 under construction in 1958 looking NE
- October 2022 POM: Magnavox production line featuring RM561A oscilloscopes with 3A75 and 2B67 plug-ins
- November 2022 POM: A large order of Type 511AD Oscilloscopes from the Hawthorne plant 1950
- December 2022 POM: 1951 Christmas Party. Tektronix Band members Vern Bartlett, Jack Neff, Doug Prouty, and Jack Gaeth.
- January 2023 POM: Swing shift transformer employees 1951
- February 2023 POM: Scribing the lines on an external CRT graticule.
- March 2023 POM: All ceramic concept CRT.
- April 2023 POM: 564 used in washing machine testing. Photo courtesy of Industrial Electronics magazine, BBC, and Borg-Warner
- May 2023 POM: Tektronix engineering circa 1959. Deane Kidd is on the left.
- June 2023 POM: The only photo we have of Tektronix co-founder Glenn McDowell