Sewbeeit2

Yardage calculator
My friend's father went all over the HawaiIan Islands maintaining and calibrating them.

Rhonda Lee

awe yes I remember. Both in fact.

lass

Yes I remember that nip/cut and the clerk then ripping the fabric at that place or cutting it if it wasn't cotton.

ka9sdn

Oh Dunster do I ever remember, like it was yesterday! Fabric was always torn not cut at the store. Love it

themachinelady

Oh what memories that brought back, I have bought fabric measured on one of those. Granted it has been many years ago and I guess I am showing my age by admitting to this, but it was really neat to watch the ladies measure fabric on one of those as a child and later when I bought some.

twinkie

You are right. There is a little lever that the clerk would push for the measure tool to put a nip/slit in the fabric at the point where the customer wanted the fabric sale to stop. Then the clerk would tear the fabric at the slit.

cat-on-a-mac

In high school, I worked at a So-Fro fabric store (anyone remember those?) and we used the fabric measuring machines. I always think about them when I go to JoAnns and watch the clerks measure against a yard stick (I'm always watching to make sure they get the measurements right!) and wonder why they aren't used anymore. I think they were much more accurate.

Treequilter

I had forgotten about these. I remember the clerks using these to measure yardage and it would make the cut and they would tear the rest of the way. Maybe 50-60. Years ago!!

cashs_mom

I remember So-Fro Fabrics. I was sad to see them go. I always found stuff I liked there.

Ada Shiela

I too remember the pneumatic cash machines used to convey cash from the registers up into the air to the above shoppers to the office in the Co-operative store in England. There is a similar set up still used today in our K-Mart - I happened to notice an assistant tucking notes into a container in a pole next to the cash register and asked if it was sending cash to the office? A similar system is used in hospitals for sending blood samples to the lab - they're so noisy that they made me jump whilst sitting in the waiting room??