I posted a couple of photos of our fabric measuring meter in a thread last summer. It's called http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...s-t133050.html

CD in Oklahoma

I have really enjoyed reading this thread. I can remember exactly how it sounded when the fabric was pulled through the machine. My grandma would "go to town" to do her grocery shopping twice a month on Wednesday, and sometimes we'd make a stop at J.C. Penney to get material. I loved looking at the pattern books and daydreaming, and I still do! Later, the mall we shopped at was closed down, and later remodeled into a school where I taught. I always said my classroom was the fabric store.

I don't remember ever seeing that. And I'm not that young! I'm 50.

Wow! Thanks for all the memories to start the day -- those measuring machines, Cloth World, getting dressed up (including hats and white gloves) to go shopping in downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena etc. My first job was at Quigley's Department Store in the San Fernando Valley -- they had free gift wrapping and one of my responsibilities was curling the curling ribbon used to decorate the packages -- I still remember that with a smile whenever I wrap a package.

I remember those and the loud "click" when it reached the amount you needed and made a little snip in just the right spot. The fabric lady would then have a starting point for her cut. Those were the days!

I remember those machines. They also make a clip in the edge of the fabric and the clerk tore the fabric from fold to edge and then hand cut the selvage.

I too remember those from my days as a little girl barely able to see over the counter to watch the magic of the fabrics sliding thru the machine!! My mom bought most of her fabrics at JC Penney's and I can still see that beautiful fabric section! Many, many yards of fabric went thru that machine that my mom purchased!!
I worked in a fabric store in 1971/72 and we didn't have the Measuregraphs at that time.

I think when they stopped using them.... we stopped getting accurate cuts of fabric!!
;( JMHO

I remember them. The employees complained that they were too much of a pain to use. They weren't able to wait on customers as quickly, so the machines were pulled....at least that is what I was told. The rollers also filled with fabric lint and became a royal pain to keep cleaned out once they weren't 'new' anymore.

Wow...yes I remember those...........long time ago......

I used one of those when I worked at the G.C. Murphy store in Beaver, PA back in the late 70's. I didn't really like using it. I thought it was much easier to use a yardstick.