Originally Posted by justflyingin
I remember when the meters disappeared and I recall a clerk telling my mom that using the yardstick and the cutting groove were the new way to measure because the meters weren't as accurate.
A couple of posters mentioned buying fabric at TG&Y. The TG&Y here must have sold fabric, although we we’re living here at the time and never shopped at the store. But, we still use the old TG&Y cutting table in our shop. The previous owners bought it at the auction when the local TG&Y closed. It’s 6’ x 6’ square, has aluminum cutting slots on two sides, and brass yard sticks on all four sides. The brass measure sticks have common yard fraction markings on them (1/8, 1/4, 1/3, etc) as well as inches. It also has wide aluminum strips on two sides that look to me like could have been for mounting fabric meters on, but I’m not sure about that. They may have had some other purpose, but I don’t know what.
The table was set up for two cutters to work at the same time on opposite sides of the table. Each cutter had a small drawer just below the top for tools, and the rest of the area under the table was for storage and has sliding doors on two sides.
BTW - Rawdon E. Tomlinson, the “T” in TG&Y, was from Frederick Oklahoma and back in 1935 was one of the founders of the TG&Y chain of stores.
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TG&Y Cutting Table
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