Here are some highlights from Rainbo's past:

1939: Rainbo starts making cardboard recording blanks in a rainbow of colors for a Home Recording Machine.

1940: By combining visually imprinted labels onto blank cardboard, we create the first "Picture Record."

1942: With the outbreak of WWII, personally recorded messages takes on a new significance. The U.S. Treasury Department and a commercial firm institute a program to record messages to and from the service men with the purchase of War Bonds. Rainbo was their exclusive supplier.

1950: Rainbo is commissioned by a large toy manufacturer/children's book publisher to build a miniature acoustical phonograph smaller than a telephone. It reproduces a 2 1/2" record and comes with its own tiny picture book.

1953: We started development of thin micro-plastic records, manufactured in a continuous web, resulting in numerous patents, domestically and internationally.

1955: The Wheaties "Record-On-A-Box" is born. Rainbo builds and refines the equipment, and in the next several years over 30 million records were made for Wheaties.

1956: Disneyland opened: Rainbo's Disneyland Talking Map (a five-record fold-out) is an outstanding feature of the opening.

1957: Rainbo issues the first Hollywood Fan Magazine ("Hear Inc.") that contains a picture record in each issue. James Dean, Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, and many others are featured and heard.

1960: Research and Development with Mattel Toys resulted in the first Barbie Doll Records, as well as the Chatty Cathy Talking Doll, and many other talking characters.

1963: Rainbo moves to Hollywood and refurbishes the old Brunswick/Decca plant, installing plating & printing and beginning operations with 40 record presses.

1965: Rainbo begins pressing for majors as Capitol's back-up plant, and for Liberty, U.S. Laff Records and Pickwick's West Coast operations.

1974: Rainbo moves to a new 30,000 square foot building in Santa Monica and installs automatic pressing and high-speed plating equipment.

1979: Pressing activities accelerate: around-the-clock accounts such as Casablanca, A&M, Everest, Mercury/MCA keep Rainbo hopping. Elvis Presley's tragic death results in 7-day weeks without let-up.

1985: Rainbo's cassette production accelerates with the addition of state-of-the-art duplicating equipment and Apex direct printing on cartridges.

1989: RAINBO'S 50th YEAR!!!

1994: Rainbo begins in-house Compact Disc manufacturing. Demand for vinyl actually grows at Rainbo, with most pressing plants abandoning the format.

1998: With the addition of four-color printing on-CD and faster, more efficient CD pressing, Rainbo's manufacturing output grows.

2002: With the purchase of DocData in the San Fernando Valley, Rainbo now replicates DVDs and has a full in-house CD and DVD mastering facility.

2004: Rainbo now offers offset printing directly onto CD and DVD discs.

2006: Rainbo combines its two plants into a single redesigned facility in Canoga Park. We're still the oldest and largest in-house manufacturer of vinyl, cassettes, DVDs and CDs!