Today, February 11, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of Electro-Mech Scoreboard Company. At least, it’s as close to the day as we can guess. In the “official archives” of the company — that is, in a cabinet in the president’s office — we have a copy of the minutes from the first stockholders’ meeting dated February 11, 1963. We’re not quite sure whether the manufacturing facility was already completed and scoreboards were being assembled at that point, or if production cranked up later. Somewhere lost in history is the record of where the first Electro-Mech scoreboard was shipped….

Electro-Mech began keeping electronic records of scoreboard sales in 1993. The first few years of those records are probably incomplete, but they tell us that we have shipped well over 35,000 scoreboards in the past twenty years. We believe that most of those scoreboards are in service today.

If you are an Electro-Mech customer, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for making our success possible. And we would love to hear from you! If you have a story about a scoreboard, about one of our sales reps, or one of our tech support folks, please respond to this article. If you were or are a vendor who worked with us over the years, say hello! If you worked directly for Electro-Mech — especially in the early days — we would enjoy hearing your memories.

Join us in celebrating this landmark. Help us to collect stories of the first 50 years of our company. We would like to publish photos, comment, and anecdotes on our web site. Maybe we can even track down that very first scoreboard from 1963!