Another blast from the past!

[Auntpiggylpn]

I had posted about some fabric I found with a KMart tag on it http://forum.missouriquiltco.com/gen...last-past.html

some of the reminiscing from other posters got me to thinking also. We lived in the city limits and I remember taking the bus with my mother to downtown where there was a huge department store called GC Murphy's. I remember her buying fabric there. Anybody remember the "Measuregraphs"???? The clerks would run the fabric through it and it measured it. When it got to the amount that you wanted, the clerk would push a button and it would put a cut in the fabric. The clerk would then be able to rear the fabric.

[Sandy Navas]

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I remember those (are we giving away precious data about ourselves?) - had forgotten that experience. That was when fabric was torn . . .

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I do remember these. I worked at a small store that used this machine.

[CraftyBarb]

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I remember these from I believe in Woolworths or it could have been in a Grants store. Been so long ago.

[Vonnie]

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Now that you brought this up - yep - showing my age.

And I would rather have it torn than giant elbows on the fold - some folks just do not know how to cut fabric.

[ellietow]

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Yes! and I remember JC Penney and Sears all having fabric departments... Everyone sewed their own dresses back then.

[pcbatiks]

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I remember those........we had them at the fabric store I worked at years ago!

[Kgrammiecaz]

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OMG. Forgot about those. I think that is how it was measured when I was sewing in my first year of highschool.

[LorraineRob]

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Well, I'm no spring chicken, but I've never seen or heard of one of those! I think it's a great idea, lol.

[BobW]

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My grandmother was a seamstress. She bought her fabrics at P.N. Hirsch and they had those type of machines.

[PeggyM]

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Absolutely remember them.

[shermur]

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As a young teenager in the mid 1980s, I worked at a fabric store called Missouri Mills Fabric. The business was located on Glenstone in Springfield, Mo. I was assigned to the drapery and upholstery fabric section. I used a measuregraph to measure the heavy, wide fabrics. It was one of my favorite jobs in my younger years!

[Ahamblin]

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We were just talking about those yesterday at the LQS. The retiring owner remembered but not one of the younger staff. According to my husband they were not very accurate so the stores stopped using them.

[PeggyM]

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According to my husband they were not very accurate so the stores stopped using them.

I wondered why they vanished.

[rarerosered]

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Remember them in our Ben Franklin...