Crafty

[Joecooool]

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[Bucwheat]

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[vtelvr]

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[BuckyThreadkiller]

When I was a kid, my Dad worked as a stereotyper/linotype operator at the local newspaper. (It's been a few thousand years.) One of the tools of the trade was a small apron that had pouches to carry lead slugs of type to fill gaps in the page, add space between lines...etc.

One of the press gang's favored tricks was to hide catfish stinkbait in each other's aprons. I'd go to work with him from time-to-time and the whole place smelled like a marina.

[MrPeabody]

When I was a kid, my Dad worked as a stereotyper/linotype operator at the local newspaper. (It's been a few thousand years.) One of the tools of the trade was a small apron that had pouches to carry lead slugs of type to fill gaps in the page, add space between lines...etc.

One of the press gang's favored tricks was to hide catfish stinkbait in each other's aprons. I'd go to work with him from time-to-time and the whole place smelled like a marina.

I too, ran Linotypes a few thousand years ago.:leaving:

[mrvette]

I too, ran Linotypes a few thousand years ago.:leaving:

Jr. High print shop....long about '56 or so....:kimblair:

An old buddy used to work as a pressman's assistant? at a company that used to publish McCalls Magazine....the mag failed before Life mag folded, and the company could not survive, so eventually it went also....

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