Originally Posted by Barbm
My husband worked for Singer Company in the mid 70s. They made electric heating elements. He bought a Touch N Sew machine (back then $400+) before the company moved to NJ and closed operations here in PA. His ex did not sew and could not figure out the machine. We bought it from her in '96 for $35. I still have it, it's a workhorse.
The people that lost their jobs with Singer formed their own company. My husband worked there for many years. That's where I met him. :)
Barbm
The best machine I ever had, by far, was the Singer Golden Touch and Sew! It had metal parts and worked even when dirty. It broke my heart to set that poor burned (literally) machine on the curb for the trash men in 1985. Someone broke into my home and set it on fire. We think and thought then, they were walking round my house with a cigarette lighter to see and caught some patterns and fabric on fire that were on my machine cabinet that I was working on. I was at work when it was set on fire.