Vintage Lead Type (Metal Letters) & Wooden Case & Tiny True Story
Between the rows of asterisks is a reply to I gave to a comment down below. It is an idea for one of my tiny true stories that will be in the book I am writing; so this seems like an appropriate place to put it as a reminder to myself, and to provide a sigh and a smile from some of you. I'll need to expand it, edit it and illustrate it...
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Wow, it has been 51 years since my high school would not allow girls to take print shop. I don't know how long after I graduated in 1965 that those rules changed. My yearbook advisor (I was co-editor) happened to be the print shop instructor. We met about the yearbook in the print shop after regular school hours. I was so curious and dying to learn about it. One day, he and I were the only ones there, and I guess I was pestering him again, mildly I'm sure, because I wasn't a brat. He said, "OK, I'll show you a little bit about printing techniques and equipment, but you have to promise you won't tell anyone, not other teachers, students nor anyone at all!" He was afraid he would lose his job if they found out he taught a girl.
Girls also could not take wood shop. At the time, I think boys could not take cooking or sewing.
He also played a practical joke on me about "type lice" and I completely fell for it. I'll try to illustrate what he did when I get further along on my book I'm writing.
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Vintage Lead Type (Metal Letters) & Wooden Case & Tiny True Story
Between the rows of asterisks is a reply to I gave to a comment down below. It is an idea for one of my tiny true stories that will be in the book I am writing; so this seems like an appropriate place to put it as a reminder to myself, and to provide a sigh and a smile from some of you. I'll need to expand it, edit it and illustrate it...
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Wow, it has been 51 years since my high school would not allow girls to take print shop. I don't know how long after I graduated in 1965 that those rules changed. My yearbook advisor (I was co-editor) happened to be the print shop instructor. We met about the yearbook in the print shop after regular school hours. I was so curious and dying to learn about it. One day, he and I were the only ones there, and I guess I was pestering him again, mildly I'm sure, because I wasn't a brat. He said, "OK, I'll show you a little bit about printing techniques and equipment, but you have to promise you won't tell anyone, not other teachers, students nor anyone at all!" He was afraid he would lose his job if they found out he taught a girl.
Girls also could not take wood shop. At the time, I think boys could not take cooking or sewing.
He also played a practical joke on me about "type lice" and I completely fell for it. I'll try to illustrate what he did when I get further along on my book I'm writing.
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(DSCN0925SOOCPrinterscaselettersinitflickr081316)