Remember the High Roads Dictionary and the school textbook covers in the nineteen fifties we got free from the banks? How about the ink wells and straight-nibbed pens, isn’t it a bit scary how quickly what once was in vogue, so quickly tanks. The Maclean system of handwriting and in grade seven learning about the Saxons and the Romans.
A few years later, there we were with Remingtons, Underwoods, and Royals typing to music and watching yet another sixteen millimetre National Film Board reel that was oh, so exciting.
What about mimeograph and the Gestetner machines, wow, once the latest innovation? For some of us old timers, like almost yesterday that land of the chalk dust seems almost rather inviting. Do you recall the Provincial departmentals and recovering from all that bliss during summer vacation?