Remember when

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I found my old K&E drawing instruments a couple of months ago while cleaning out some boxes.

I was doing all of my drawings while studying civil engineering and we had to draw everything by hand.

EDIT ... I just Googled my old K & E instruments and they are selling for $500.00 bucks. WOW ... I will find mine and sell them .... they are mid-1960's circa.

 

Remember when people didn't drive around the city with their high beams on.

 

Did you ever use the K-E Leroy lettering guide system?

 

The Malaise Era!

 

The store clerk would say "Don't drink any soda pop while eating these"...

 

Which immediately made you want to drink soda pop while eating those

 

Different things at different places.

K+E, Kroy, various font templates, and a lot of structural eng notes were just typed on sticky plastic and stuck on the drawings. (With a manual typewriter.)
We had an early Kroy for making big titles, and it had interchangeable "code wheels" for the fonts and sizes. Later we had a much smaller electronic machine That changed fonts with a small menu screen.

But I did far more working drawings in early years, and presentation drawings in the later PC years. Working drawings were free-hand lettered. There was lots of tracing.

What you did for in-house use was much different than "contract" docs, that had to go outside.

 

I hate that they do that!!

Remember when cars actually drove around in the city using ONLY the running lights (aka, parking lights) and NO headlights?
Prolly not much here in the US, but that was the standard practice in Europe. There were enough street lights to show the way; the running lights were to alert the pedestrians you were a moving vehicle so as to not step out in front of you. (Which makes one wonder how the term "parking lights" came to be!)

 

My father remembers not being required to use headlights in New York back in the 50's. They originally had a different purpose:
https://jalopnik.com/youre-using-your-parking-lights-wrong-1822884831

Today, Running Lights = Parking Lights :: Parkway = Driveway (Although being from New York, I know that the etymological definition of parkway was so derived because it was a tree-lined road that was the way to the park...)

 

Back around 96, a buddy and myself were driving back from his parents house, back to base.. about 2hr drive, pitch black night on highway was a lone car, we thought it was parked in roadway but no headlights, parklights or any other lights on. Driving down the road. All we saw was the exhaust underneath was red hot. Easily going 55mph...still dont know if he had nightvision goggles or what was going on...we passed and hauled ass away from him...

 

You sure it wasn't the Jackie Chan Team running the Cannonball?

 

Who knows, it was creepy as hell. Long before cell phones were common

 

Yep... got 20+ templates, and 3-4 different scribers, including this really cool (and relatively rare) height & slant control unit:

 

But not your knee joints if they are encased in "Greenjeans"!

 

He had the only television with channel one on it.

He kept carrots in his pockets.

His clock had 24/7 “snooze”.

 

The TV in Ken Ober’s basement had Channel 1 on it also.