I remember them. There were no JoAnn's in our area at the time. But we used to have a Hancock store with large table bins (large wooden tables with sides) of fabric marked .25 cents a yard on up to $1.00 a yard as the max for most cottons; some special dress fabrics were up to $1.25 a yard. The store clerks would measure and the machine would notch the fabric: then the clerk would tear the fabric. Always got up to two to four inches free fabric for straightening after you washed the fabric. Now I really feel old as I haven't seen fabric for less that 2.99 a yard in the past 10 years.