What do you remember from years ago? (husband, music, school)
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The thermos in the lunchbox breaking when I dropped it, because it had a glass inner liner.
I went through so many of those when I was a kid. Thanks for the memory.
Remember the glasses kids wore then? They broke if you looked at them wrong. If I had a dime for every time my mom had to take us kids to get our glasses fixed, I'd be richer than Oprah now.
Real Blackboard with Chalk in schools
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Tailors who took measurements
And remember how the teacher would pick a couple of kids to clean the erasers by going outside and beating them against the building? I'm sure there's a Class Action suit in there somewhere for people who inhaled chalk dust.
Tailors: they still exist! In the last few years of my career I had a couple of suits and some shirts and separates made by a tailor. An extravagance (especially since I retired 4 years earlier than planned) but I love them and still wear a lot of them. They even measured the angle of each shoulder separately. Bonus: while the tailor himself did not make them personally the work was done in Chicago- yes, made in America.
When I was in business school (late 70's), we had to learn to type on both an electric typewriter AND a manual. We had to pass final exams on both with at least 95 percent accuracy. I never saw a manual typewriter in any office I ever worked...when I started my internship in 1980, computers were coming into use (I'd never seen one before). We had to pass a class on ten-key calculator. We were given speed tests and the psycho instructor used to walk around the room whacking a yard stick on the desks (I was the nervous type, so this always made me mess up).
Business schools such as I attended seem to have disappeared. We took a two year course and graduated with a diploma in Medical Secretarial, Legal Secretarial, etc. Now everyone takes a four-year- college course. Our school even offered Civil Service courses...they actually assisted in placing you in a position in Washington, D.C...even found you respectable living arrangements. The family-run school had existed for over 100 years (my grandfather found HIS secretary there). You made it through that instruction and graduated from that school, you could write your ticket and were assured a job. The grading curve started at 80 (a D Minus). An A was 94 upward. It was a tough school. It closed in the late 1980's.
When I graduated, my first resume was done on a mimeograph machine.
Typing Speed on Manual Typewriter, Shorthand (to take Notes when Boss speak), Photocopy skills on Copy Machines, Carbon Paper. Gosh !! Office environment used to be so different.
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My first washing machine was a Maytag wringer washer. Then out to hang clothes to dry, and they smelled wonderful.
and stiff as a board, depending on water quality and a HOT, dry day with no wind... Petrified... and VERY dry! Crunchy dry. Had to fold them to get them to fit in the laundry basket! (Wood slat Apple basket)..
Come to think of it... has been a LONG time since I ran a cream separator. Probably one of those jobs without high demand in 2020.
I remember dial phones. In fact, I remember the "Number Please" operators.
That's not all that long ago, but watch these two 17-year-olds as they struggle to figure out how to use a dial phone. They simply cannot find a way to dial it that makes any sense to them! https://www.foxnews.com/tech/watch-2...a-rotary-phone
Does anyone remember phone numbers like this? Pershing which was PE4-0506. Capital was downtown, it was CA.
Sure. My original number - back in the "Number Please" days - was 707. Then we switched to 1029.
But when we went to dial phones it was TUxedo 7-something
How about postal codes? .... you know, New York 7, NY.
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