Still Going After 50 Years

[Clad2Silver]

I bought this stapler in 1971 which makes it 50 years old. I bought it at W.T. Grant which was a chain of stores that opened in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1906. At their peak they had more than 500 stores but by the 1970's because of a lot more competition the number of stores dwindled until they closed their last one in 1976. Though the stapler is showing some signs of wear, it still works as good as the day I got it.

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Oh yeah. And the "Bucky Bradford House" restaurant at the front of the stores.

 

[Mackaydon]

Reminds me of using a slide rule for financial computations at my job in the 60s.
Don.....

 

[Clad2Silver]

Oh yeah. And the "Bucky Bradford House" restaurant at the front of the stores.

There were three WT Grant stores in my area and none of them had restaurants. Two were in the downtown area and one of them was located in a mall. BUT......I do remember Bradford House.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Reminds me of using a slide rule for financial computations at my job in the 60s.
Don.....

I was in the last class of the pre-college engineering program in our high-school that had to learn and use slide-rules. There was a huge eight-foot model on the wall the instructor showed us with. Used one in college as well.

Learned all about vacuum tube electronics in that HS program. Damn handy stuff, now. ;-) Though I guess the logic is still the same.

 

[Truth]

Made in America [emoji631]

 

[Megalodon]

My wife worked part-time in H.S. as a cashier at a W.T Grants store in MA. She got some funny reactions to her name badge on her smock because her maiden name was Grant.

 

[Clad2Silver]

Made in America [emoji631]

That says it all !

 

[Tony in SC]

I learned to use a slide rule in high school. Early in my career I worked with an older engineer that still used a slide rule and could SMOKE those young guys with their new little Texas lnsturment toys!!!

 

[Gene Mean]

Nice looking machine.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Guess it lives up to the old saying "They just don't make things like they use to" !

 

[Clad2Silver]

Guess it lives up to the old saying "They just don't make things like they use to" !

This stapler is a classic example of that old saying.

 

[BC1969]

That's almost as old as I am.
Keep it.. modern junk..is junk..lol.

 

[boogeyman]

That's almost as old as I am.
Keep it.. modern junk..is junk..lol.

W.T. Grants Tuesdays all you could eat liver! Friday all you could eat fried clams! Mondays new shipment of plastic model kits. Those were good times for us kids!

 

[Gare]

I rem ember the Grant Store in Michigan in the 60's

 

[crashbandicoot]

My wife too worked at a W.T.Grants,in Cape Girardeau,Missouri !