Dr Roger & Dorothy Truesdail Laboratories 1968 Thanksgiving Card Pasadena CA

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This is a Good Condition Dr Roger & Dorothy Truesdail, founders of Truesdail Laboratories, 1968 Personal Thanksgiving Card sent from their home in Pasadena, California.
From the Truesdail Laboratories website:
In 1930, when Dr. Roger W. Truesdail was a chemistry professor at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, he developed a unique procedure for food processing using yeast.  An entrepreneurial college friend persuaded him to start a business to create and market a yeast by-product.  So, in 1931 during the depths of the Great Depression, Dr. Truesdail and his partner established what was then named The California Yeast Products Company and is now Truesdail Laboratories, Inc.
The partners set up operations in Pasadena, CA, close to Dr. Truesdail’s home.  Shortly afterward, the partner quit, leaving Dr. Truesdail without a yeast business, unemployed as a professor, and in debt while the country was still deeply mired in the Great Depression.
Dr. Truesdail diversified to enable his nascent business to survive.  He converted his small, one-man operation into a testing lab and moved the operation to tight quarters in downtown Los Angeles.  In the early years Dr. Truesdail frequently had to borrow from his life insurance to meet his three employee payroll.  During World War II there were weeks when not one new piece of business came in the door.
Dr. Truesdail referred to his operation as “The Laboratories” since he envisioned that someday there would be several laboratories under one roof performing a variety of independent testing analyses.  Through both prosperous and lean years he kept his vision of multiple labs.  We now have the Analytical Services Department, a group of labs that test our environment and performs other specialized chemical tests, a Drug Testing Department, and a Product Certification Department.  Dr. Truesdail’s vision has become reality.
During our history, Truesdail has provided a wide range of tests.  We adapt our testing to the needs of the public and the environment.  In the 1970’s and ‘80’s we were renowned for our expert witness testimony and specialized in forensic science.  In the 1990’s, mechanical strength and asbestos testing represented a sizable percentage of our business.
Truesdail Laboratories has weathered the Great Depression, the severe shortage of labor during World War II, innumerable changes in the laws governing testing, and the ups-and-downs of our economy in a burgeoning Southern California
Throughout the years Truesdail has made many significant contributions to the laboratory testing industry.
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