Scakes

I remember those.

There used to be a lace & fabric place close to use. The man who ran the place had a lace measuring device - hooked the lace to it and with every turn of the handle 1 yard was measured out. At the end, he took the lace off and it was in big loops that were easy to handle.

WMUTeach

Yes, ma'am I do. When I was a child I wanted to grow up and be able to use that tool. Our local department store had them and in the eyes of a child, it was a tool for the wise and professional sales clerk to use in her work to serve us, the customer. How disappointed I was to find that as a 30 year old with her dream job in a fabric store, that these gray exquisite tools of measurement no longer existed. Just a metal grove in a counter and a pair of scissors.

And yes, that 1940's and 1950's clerk pushed down the handle that made a little cut in the edge of the fabric that she then proceeded to rip. Ah, what a distinctive sound was made as she prepared the length of dry goods that had been requested. Her black, navy or brown dress that hid the strong arms of a quite farm maiden or hard scrabble city girl at work in the "posh" department store in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Thanks for the memory of my childhood in mid-America.

GammaLou

Oh, yeah! The good ole days..

QuilterChick

Yes ! I sure do remember that machine. As I read through the description you posted above, I noticed it said that the price had been set at 25 cents per yard. Maybe that is why they went the way of the manual typewriter around the same time. I'll be it didn't have any figures as high as the prices now, around $10, more or less, per yard. A neat collectible!

T is a pricing/measurement chart in the machine. Chart number F10 is inserted. The chart starts with $.25 per yard.
I don't know the age of this or if t's a model number for it. T's not much information on the device itself.

pal

Yup, W.T.Grant had that in their "department store". And I still have some fabric with the W.T.Grant label on it. 1956.

luana

By the number of posts, there are many of us who have fond memories of the machine. I agree with the post from AprilG.

mississippiqltr

Remember the machine, not sure of the name. There is a store where I live that still uses one.

Paula H

Sure I remember those. There are some quilt shops that I wish had one now

judykay

Yes I remember them even though I was not into sewing at the time. We sure can date ourselves with these kind of memories, but it is fun to remember some of these kind of things.

FrankB

Yes , I do remember. I was a child at the time. JC Penny's is the place. I am now 75.m wonder why it was eliminated?