Name (required):

  Expression ^{(Optional mood/title along with your name) Examples: (happy, sad, The Joyful, etc.) help)}

  E-mail address (optional):

Type your message here:
>Just a little local nostalgia tidbit to add something >new to the Forum... > >The former RCA, Radio Corporation of America, operated >an electronics testing facility on Evesboro-Medford >Road between N. Elmwood Road and Sharp Road in Evesham. > >In 1954, RCA opened a large complex on Route 38 in >Cherry Hill(across from the present Cherry Hill Mall) >which housed it's RCA Victor Home Instruments and >Service Division. Home electronics, such as television >sets, were designed and tested here. Part of the >testing process was conducted at the Evesham testing >site, which contained over a million dollars worth of >equipment. The tests here were mainly to detect how >much electronic radiation would come from RCA Victor >TV sets and how this would interfere with other >devises in a houshold. > >In 1961, RCA moved the RCA Victor division from Cherry >Hill to Indianapolis. The Cherry Hill site then became >a Data Processing Center (and later RCA Government >Services until it was demolished for the Hillview >Shopping Center). The Evesham site was then converted >into a radar testing site, used by RCA's Missile and >Surface Radar Plant in Moorestown.

Notice: Copies of your message may remain on this and other systems on internet. Please be respectful.