Does anyone remember?
#71
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I remember those.
There used to be a lace & fabric place close to use. The man who ran the place had a lace measuring device - hooked the lace to it and with every turn of the handle 1 yard was measured out. At the end, he took the lace off and it was in big loops that were easy to handle.
There used to be a lace & fabric place close to use. The man who ran the place had a lace measuring device - hooked the lace to it and with every turn of the handle 1 yard was measured out. At the end, he took the lace off and it was in big loops that were easy to handle.
#72
Yes, ma'am I do. When I was a child I wanted to grow up and be able to use that tool. Our local department store had them and in the eyes of a child, it was a tool for the wise and professional sales clerk to use in her work to serve us, the customer. How disappointed I was to find that as a 30 year old with her dream job in a fabric store, that these gray exquisite tools of measurement no longer existed. Just a metal grove in a counter and a pair of scissors.
And yes, that 1940's and 1950's clerk pushed down the handle that made a little cut in the edge of the fabric that she then proceeded to rip. Ah, what a distinctive sound was made as she prepared the length of dry goods that had been requested. Her black, navy or brown dress that hid the strong arms of a quite farm maiden or hard scrabble city girl at work in the "posh" department store in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Thanks for the memory of my childhood in mid-America.
And yes, that 1940's and 1950's clerk pushed down the handle that made a little cut in the edge of the fabric that she then proceeded to rip. Ah, what a distinctive sound was made as she prepared the length of dry goods that had been requested. Her black, navy or brown dress that hid the strong arms of a quite farm maiden or hard scrabble city girl at work in the "posh" department store in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Thanks for the memory of my childhood in mid-America.
#74
Aww I googled it a measuregraph!
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...suring-machine
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...suring-machine
T is a pricing/measurement chart in the machine. Chart number F10 is inserted. The chart starts with $.25 per yard.
I don't know the age of this or if t's a model number for it. T's not much information on the device itself.
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