Old Enough To Remember?

Sunday Rider said:
These came with canvas bag for delivering newspapers. That wheel was used to cut the wire holding the paper bundle by putting it in the notch and going back and forth. The Saturday bundle was a thicker wire due to the TVguide and comics. They got tired of us tearing newspapers by trying to wiggle out the middle ones out of the bundle.
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I used to deliver papers too. I have never seen one of these. The papers were dropped off at my house in large stacks wired together with advertising sections separate. I had to organize the sections add the advertisements and fold and put it all together with a rubber band and pack my bike handlebar bags. I used to cover the local hospital as well and walk the corridors with my papers for patients that wanted a paper.
 
CDNolddude said:
OK sounds like a good idea.
I don’t remember having one when I delivered papers.
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I could never figure out what it was for until I told the district manager that I can’t unbundle the Saturday papers without ripping the first one in the middle. Then he showed me how to use it.
I used to deliver the Globe and Mail
 
bdalameda said:
I used to deliver papers too. I have never seen one of these. The papers were dropped off at my house in large stacks wired together with advertising sections separate. I had to organize the sections add the advertisements and fold and put it all together with a rubber band and pack my bike handlebar bags. I used to cover the local hospital as well and walk the corridors with my papers for patients that wanted a paper.
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The bundle was dropped off by the local newspaper box where you drop coins in, when it was the honour system. On rainy days they drop them covered in a big plastic bag and I would put a hole in the bag for my head and wear it as a poncho to keep the papers dry. But mostly had apartment buildings.
There wasn’t the advertising flyers that they have now. I just dreaded Saturdays as the heavier paper made for a long heavy slog.
 
Sunday Rider said:
These came with canvas bag for delivering newspapers. That wheel was used to cut the wire holding the paper bundle by putting it in the notch and going back and forth. The Saturday bundle was a thicker wire due to the TVguide and comics. They got tired of us tearing newspapers by trying to wiggle out the middle ones out of the bundle.
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Aaah, so that's it. I knew I'd seen one before but couldn't remember what it was. I worked in the marketing department of a newspaper for a time back in '79 or '80 and we used to see them from time to time. Your reference to the Saturday paper brought a wave of nostalgia back to me; we used to get the Saturday edition of the Montreal Star, which went the way of the dodo way back in the late '70s. My dad, my sister and I used to fight over who got to read the "funnies" first and my mum was all over the TV Guide like a bad suit! I miss those days.
 
Sunday Rider said:
I could never figure out what it was for until I told the district manager that I can’t unbundle the Saturday papers without ripping the first one in the middle. Then he showed me how to use it.
I used to deliver the Globe and Mail
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Used to deliver Hamilton Spectator and worked Saturday mornings where they hired students to stuff ads and comics into the paper and lug them around etc. lots of students every weekend. Very busy and fun place to work.
 
Vancouver Sun came in a string bundle not wire, hence why I have had a pocket knife for fifty years. One of the threads was where and when did you learn to ride? My answer 1975 on my paper route delivering 120 Saturday Vancouver Sun papers on a single speed 1940 Releigh bicycle.
 
In the mid 70's I worked in a gas station summers and the owner had a 3 drawer NCR cash register similar to the one below.

All mechanical. Each of the gas jockeys were assigned a drawer and had a key to access it. Transactions could be classified as gas, oil, accessories. labour etc..... At the end of a shift owner inserted a master key and the unit then crunched for a few minutes and then printed out a summary of sales per category by drawer, total sales per category and then reset for the next cycle. Seemed advanced for the time. Employees were responsible for every nickel punched into the register and I'd be doing $1,000 - $1,500 cash sales per 12 hour shift, very busy gas station, big bucks in 1975. In addition, at shift end all gas pump sales were reconciled and, again, we were responsible for any shortages.



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John OoSTerhuis said:
I’ve got one of those. And an Army circular one for flight computations.
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That would probably be an E6-B - I've got mine from ground school (which I passed but never took flying lessons - got a new 73 Triumph Trident instead! ;))PED E 6B Computer.jpg
 
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When I went on my first promotion course in the Royal Navy our maths instructor handed out log tables and I told him the only log tables I had ever seen were the ones we had picnics on....

For some reason he didn't believe me.... until he realised I was telling the truth and I had to be shown how to use logs..... not that hard in the end....

Never had a slide rule, but my first calculator, bought in Gibraltar in 1975, only did the absolute basic add, subtract, multiply and divide..... and had a seven segment display....

How things have changed!
 
Firstpeke said:
When I went on my first promotion course in the Royal Navy our maths instructor handed out log tables and I told him the only log tables I had ever seen were the ones we had picnics on....

For some reason he didn't believe me.... until he realised I was telling the truth and I had to be shown how to use logs..... not that hard in the end....

Never had a slide rule, but my first calculator, bought in Gibraltar in 1975, only did the absolute basic add, subtract, multiply and divide..... and had a seven segment display....

How things have changed!
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My first electronic one was a Bowmar - $75 for a 4 functions (and worth every penny then!) and now they give them away with more functions for free. :biggrin:
Texas Instrument ones became the 'cat's pajamas' in those days in engineering classes.
 
Uncle Phil said:
I'm a little younger than you (my actual K&E slide rule - couldn't put my hands on my log book) ;) -
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When I started my engineering course back in the 70's, the college insisted we had Faber Castell slide rules.
Wasn't too happy about it as they were expesive for an apprentice to buy, and the company woulnn't pay,
Don't recall ever actually having to use the damn thing.
Found it in the garage a couple of years back and gave it a fling.
Also found a small slide rule I think my Brother gave me, kept hold of that but can't remember how to use it now...:think1:
 
I have a K&E slide rule also, probably from 1960 or so. Don't know why it was kept . . . nostalgia maybe?

Next to it is my TI Statistics calculator that I purchased for my first military ADP school (1981). Expensive for sure. Put it away in a drawer along with the slide rule about . . . damn, over 30 years ago now! Haven't touched it since then until today and . . . it powered ON! I don't know what kind of battery they used then, but it's still got some juice left. Pretty amazing.

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So many good memories in this thread. Thanks all . . . keep'em coming.

Shuey
 
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