fabric measure tool
#55
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Central Missouri
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Oh what memories that brought back, I have bought fabric measured on one of those. Granted it has been many years ago and I guess I am showing my age by admitting to this, but it was really neat to watch the ladies measure fabric on one of those as a child and later when I bought some.
#56
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Alabama
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You are right. There is a little lever that the clerk would push for the measure tool to put a nip/slit in the fabric at the point where the customer wanted the fabric sale to stop. Then the clerk would tear the fabric at the slit.
#57
In high school, I worked at a So-Fro fabric store (anyone remember those?) and we used the fabric measuring machines. I always think about them when I go to JoAnns and watch the clerks measure against a yard stick (I'm always watching to make sure they get the measurements right!) and wonder why they aren't used anymore. I think they were much more accurate.
#59
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
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In high school, I worked at a So-Fro fabric store (anyone remember those?) and we used the fabric measuring machines. I always think about them when I go to JoAnns and watch the clerks measure against a yard stick (I'm always watching to make sure they get the measurements right!) and wonder why they aren't used anymore. I think they were much more accurate.
#60
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Gosnells Western Australia
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I too remember the pneumatic cash machines used to convey cash from the registers up into the air to the above shoppers to the office in the Co-operative store in England. There is a similar set up still used today in our K-Mart - I happened to notice an assistant tucking notes into a container in a pole next to the cash register and asked if it was sending cash to the office? A similar system is used in hospitals for sending blood samples to the lab - they're so noisy that they made me jump whilst sitting in the waiting room??
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