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[house_cat]

Record cases and portable record players.  

[house_cat]

It had a distinct smell, which I can remember just looking at the photos.

[just bee]

Phones that changed their outfit when you did.

[Diva on The Q]

Cash registers that didn't tell you how much change to give customers. You had to figure it out in your head!

[tammysu]

A training bra! 

[Diva on The Q]

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@kivah wrote:

I was a stenographer - I sat at the desks of various people I worked for and they dictated correspondence/memos - and I took it down in Pitman Shorthand and typed it out. I was called a Secretary!!!! In high school and at my 1st job, I typed on a manual typewriter, where the carriage moved from right to left and then back.

A few years later,IBM invented the Selectric Typewriter, which used a "golf" ball gizmo which had all the letters and symbols- and when typing, the ball hit the paper.

At my first job after high school, in 1959, I worked for a company on Wall St. that invested money in the stock market for the rich. Most of the memos I typed, needed many copies, so I put carbon paper between each page.

 I loved the IBM Selectric typewriter!!!

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[ScarletDove]

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@kivah wrote:

I was a stenographer - I sat at the desks of various people I worked for and they dictated correspondence/memos - and I took it down in Pitman Shorthand and typed it out. I was called a Secretary!!!! In high school and at my 1st job, I typed on a manual typewriter, where the carriage moved from right to left and then back.

A few years later,IBM invented the Selectric Typewriter, which used a "golf" ball gizmo which had all the letters and symbols- and when typing, the ball hit the paper.

At my first job after high school, in 1959, I worked for a company on Wall St. that invested money in the stock market for the rich. Most of the memos I typed, needed many copies, so I put carbon paper between each page.

@kivah  I did the same, I learned Gregg Shorthand, graduated HS '60, went to Jr College (what they were called then), Medical Secretarial-AA degree and got a job at NIH 8/63.  Mimeograph machines, ditto machines, manual typewriters, carbon paper, tissue copies, IBM Selectric. Worked 6 yrs, resigned, went back fulltime in '84 and had to go back to school to learn "word processors", big machines with printers in sound-proof boxes. Upon retirement in '13, quite savvy in computers!

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[ScarletDove]

Howdy Doody Show with Buffalo Bob Smith......

Buster Brown shoes and Mr. Froggy, the Magic Gremlin.....

****** Clark's American Bandstand.....   (sorry for the asterisks for Mr. Clark's 1st name, "edit" will not allow his "inappropriate" first name.......)

[rrpell]

I'm thinking about stamps.  When I was a kid, my mom would sometimes pin a brown envelope on me before I went to school.  It held change.  I would visit the principal's office and they would give me stamps in exchange which I would stick in a booklet.  When the booklet was full, we would go to the bank for a bond...  Does anyone remember these?

Also, I remember helping my mom pasting lots of S & Green stamps in booklets and redeeming them.

[Bridgegal]

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@Mominohio wrote:

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@homedecor1 wrote:

a princess telephone in pink which i got for my 16th birthday installed in my bedroom - only problem my mother/father/brother could listen on the other line!!!! grrrrrr

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@homedecor1

Oh my gosh! Mine was light blue, and installed for my 15th birthday! And yep, all one line. It was like having your kid's passwords and monitoring their online usage today! lol

It was supposed to be a surprise, but I was the only one home the day before my birthday, and the phone company called to see if they could come for the install a day early. My mom  was not happy to have the surprise spoiled!

I wish I had that phone now. What memories.

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      I got a Princess phone for some birthday.  14 or 15 maybe.  And I had my very own phone number.  No sharing.  No listening.