Your Lounge Friday-Saturday Art Challenge

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67. We had linotypes in our HS print shop

I was editor of the paper, so I spent a lot of time there proofreading galleys and watching slugs being set. And, of course, each page was justified by hand.

My dad was foreman of a plant that made printing machines--letter press machines of the kind used by department stores to print display signs. Each letter was stamped individually, and could be embossed by pouring colored powder over the wet ink and then melting with a hand-held heater.

After my dad's death, we sold his collection of several fonts of large wood block letters to the print shop teacher.