One ‘old school’ and a holiday one for ya…
See if you remember these…
And how many fought to be the one to run it, and get out of class for a while? Remember the smell??? 🙂
I know they still used them on the high school level in the late 60’s…
And PETA and the animal rights folks would go NUTS over these…
Oops, spoke too soon, they STILL are… Article HERE.
Holy crap, is that a mimeograph machine?
I remember the smell of the oil and ink combo from this one. Our school had one in a well ventilated small room (otherwise, you could be overcome by fumes) and the rythmic whump whump whump while it ran.
And I believe that you and I are both members of PETA.
The People for the Eating of Tasty Animals.
Or is it that other one that you are talking about…….
Yep, you can remember a smell. And I remember carbon paper. And what about the very early texting technology. A one way at a time communication method using a verbal shorthand. Oh wait, that was the telegraph. And yes, I am of the age where I actually have gotten a telegram. (and I wish I had saved it.)
+1 on the tasty animals.
John in Philly
Yikes! I hadn’t even scrolled past the picture before my brain kicked into “Bring back that smell!” mode. I couldn’t stand the stuff!! It set me off at 50 paces. Seemed I was supersensitive to it — couldn’t even hand out a stack of the pages in class. Funny, but I’ve used every solvent commonly around, but the Mimeograph stuff was in a class all its own for me.
In college in the 70’s the Vets club ran the copy center. They always ran an extra copy of every test which, for a small fee, could find it’s way home with someone.
Never underestimate the resourcefulness of an enlisted man.
I know what that it is! If only because “Animal House” changed my life.
In regards to the chicks, I remember those at the church Easter picnic growing up, and will always associate those with getting in trouble/spanked for ruining my nice clothes at said picnic.
Listen if you’re going to hide eggs from a future Cav Scout; don’t get mad when he goes through great lengths to find them.
hah…my elementary school had a mimeograph in the 80s. it was still being used in 1995…
I loved working the memeograph. Then, in high school I had the chance to take graphic arts. We had a full size print shop with half a dozen different presses from the mimeograph up to full size 17×22 inch, single color newspaper presses. We did all the paste up and layout, line photography, plate making, and maintenance on all the equipment. We put out 2 high school newspapers, 4 junior high newspapers, and a couple of elementary papers every week. Plus any special project from the school district. During the summer break months, the school district would hire the students to continue working in the print shop to print up all the paperwork and forms needed for the upcoming school year. And all the hours spent in class were accountable if you wanted to get your journeyman rating after you left school. I worked there for 2 1/2 years and it was one of the best times of my life. Let’s see common core compete with that!
OSHA never would have let kids run that.
It was a wonderful smell. And the papers would still be warm when handed out.
They can tweek the law. But no dyed chicks. They just get discarded. They are animals capable of suffering when neglected and abused, not pieces of inanimate trash to be used for grins and gighles.
Joe/John- Yep, memories… 🙂 And we’re in the ‘right’ PETA…
Bob- It did get some people like that. Thankfully I wasn’t one, so I got out of class to go get them… 🙂
Gerry- I know nozzink… But I passed frosh English… 😀
SPE- ROTF! The one time I remember getting to do that, they made us change into our running around clothes…
faln- Dang! I thought they were all gone by the late 70’s!
Ray- That’s great experience! Sadly, I’ve never heard of that anywhere else… And common core? Yeah, right…
Ed- True!!!
PH- We used to keep the chicks and let them grow, then they became dinner… 🙂 I just hated plucking them!
i went to a teeny tiny parochial school. most of our stuff was hand-me-down from other schools with more money in the Archdiocese. hell, we shared our phys ed equipment with another school!
I’m getting old. Every order I got in the military was mimeographed.
The old mimeograph… hated typing those damn stencils, went through so much correction fluid that they switched me to running the machine.
Useless fact: mimeo stencils came boxed in quantities of “quires.”
One quire = 1/20 of a ream (500 sheets) = 25 stencils.
Never understood the dyed baby chicks thing, they were cuter natural.
I was such a nerd I not only ran the mimeograph machine but the slide, film strip, AND 16mm projector.
And nothing gave away sniffing the mimeo like a purple nose.
Dad, who has no computer, still asks me to TWIX someone for him on my computer.
faln- Ah, didn’t know that was still being done.
WSF- Yeah, my early ones were too!
dammit- I didn’t know that! Thanks, and agree on the chicks!
Stretch- LOL, now THAT is a term I haven’t heard in a while!!!
Hey Old NFO;
I love the smell of a xerox machine……Smells like getting stoned …legally….I remember that the sky(and everything else) always looked different after a run on the machine…
Bob- LOL, oh yeah… 🙂
I helped print church bulletins on one
They still used them in the early 1970s when I graduated from high school. After that copiers started to take over although they were very expensive at first.
Now most people have a combination scanner/copier/fax/printer that costs around $100.00.
I guess that’s progress.