My first job, after high school in the mid-70s, was working for the accounting
department at Marshall Field's on State St. My biggest job was running the
monthly sales/financial reports. Eighty-five copies of 80 to 100 pages each, 2
sided, all run off of a "ditto" machine.
The messy liquid, the stencils that were more fragile than a crystal goblet,
laying out the individual pages to dry before running the second side but being
careful that they wouldn't wrinkle or stick together. I ruined more shirts......
The Xerox corporation should be granted sainthood.
Rob McNay
Chicago IL
--- On Wed, 1/26/11, califconure <jonathanharris@earthlink.net> wrote:
> From: califconure <jonathanharris@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [CBQ] Re: CB&Q Trip February 19, 1966 - St. Louis to Hannibal Behind
> 4960
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 10:48 PM
> I believe what you mean is methanal
> (=formaldehyde). I vividly recall the sickly sweet smell
> from school (elementary school through college). Methanol is
> methyl alcohol (so-called "wood alcohol"). Both are nasty
> and toxic.
> jonathan
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com,
> "dieselpop1" <dieselpop1@...> wrote:
> >
> > The solvent was methanol.
> > W. D. Hoy
> >
> > --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com,
> Jpslhedgpeth@ wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I'll bet nobody, or maybe just a few "old coots"
> know what Ted means when re refers to "Ditto Flyers....they
> smelled so good".
> > >
> > > The "jelly" used in the "ditto" process had a
> very unique and special odor...Kind of sweet and very
> pleasant...I can't describe it, but I would recognize it
> instantly..
> > >
> > > Right Ted
> > >
> > > Pete
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Theo <hi_jeanx@>
> > > To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 3:43 pm
> > > Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q Trip February 19, 1966 -
> St. Louis to Hannibal Behind 4960
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Way back, three Wesleyan students rode what was
> billed as the Last Steam Excursion Via the CB&Q out of
> St. Louis Union Station. The date was February 19, 1966.
> Handing out ditto fliers (they smelled so good) and getting
> $.50 dues, they recruited 110 others on the trip to fight to
> save CB&Qs steam, with their ultimate effort what became
> the Monticello Railway Museum. I don't remember much of the
> rest of the trip, but the early action was spectacular on a
> nearly windless, grey day that allowed the 4960's plume to
> rise majestically perhap 400 feet, with hundreds of people
> on the top of the levee in a
> > > strictly-enforced photo run-by line getting a
> thousand shots and movies (there were 800 people on the
> train at least).
> > >
> > > The museum needs a slide or photo of that event
> to use in its PowerP show history being put together.
> > >
> > > If anyone can find something they could use, it
> will be to great thanks.
> > >
> > > Ted Lemen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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