Originally Posted by wolfkitty
People also notice old machines. There was a movie set in a sewing factory, and there was a lot of talk about the machines with the large throat (area between the needle and the right-hand side of the machine). Home machines have a much smaller throat, harder to do quilts on.
LOL. The bar scenes in Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood has lots of old sewing machines. I could never quite figure out why they were in a bar.