Originally Posted by
Whigrose
Too funny! My db is retired Navy. When he heard I was R & R old treadles he gave me some ribbing. But then he goes on to say that all the ships he worked on had 'old Singers' right up until the mid 80's.
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A lot of ships still do-less to go wrong at sea, and easier to fix themselves. The sail loft at the Pearl Harbor shipyard still has 'big black Singers' too. I've never been in, but Hubby was in an out of that shop during his last tour in the yards there.
Originally Posted by
Caroline S
Nice photo. I bet those guys forgot all that sewing knowledge when they got home.
And going home was where they were going; the caption (that I forgot to include) was that these guys were sewing on discharge emblems at the end of WWII.