- Love the French curve and template — remember when every schoolkid had one? - Benjamin Lukoff
- Drake Hotel — Reasonable Rates - Benjamin Lukoff
- Harborview Hospital - Benjamin Lukoff
- Embossing seals? - Fnarf
- Nice! How very "Mad Men". - Fnarf
- Fnarf: The right two items are ink wells, which an engineer or draftsman would have for inking drawings. The left two could be embossing seals, if Elmer Shaver is a PE, or maybe one-hole punches. - dtnelson
Engineering Department employees, 1962
Item 74240, Engineering Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 2613-07), Seattle Municipal Archives.
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EspressoBuzz (34 months ago | reply)
Love the jury-rigged stencil holders.
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Benjamin Lukoff (34 months ago | reply)
Bring back that decor!
dtnelson (34 months ago | reply)
Responding to Fnarf's note over the ashtray (as this is too long for a note):
"Mad Men," heck -- I had an ashtray on my desk and a cigarette in my hand until G H W Bush was President.
The interesting thing is it says "Photostat" around the rim, and I can't tell if it's a promotional ashtray the Photostat people gave out -- engineering offices would be consumers of Photostat and Ozalid machines -- or if Elmer Shaver has used a part from a Photostat machine to rig up an extra-wide rim for a standard office-supply-cabinet-issue bakelite ashtray, to keep his cigarettes from falling out of the ashtray and onto his drafting table as they burned up past the part wedged in the holder in the ashtray rim. Which used to happen.
severinus (34 months ago | reply)
@dtnelson: Looks like Photostat definitely made promotional ashtrays. This one, similar to the one in this photo, is only $2. Or you could go fancy for $10.
Rob Ketcherside (34 months ago | reply)
Nice photo, nice objects, nice conversation.
Elmer Shaver and his wife had a 7-month old son and lived at 2508 South Willow Street.
Benjamin Lukoff (34 months ago | reply)
Bet he was thrilled about I-5...
Rob Ketcherside (34 months ago | reply)
Good point! :-D In the engineering department, he must have seen it coming!
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C. G. P. Grey (19 months ago | reply)
Thanks for making your photo available as CC-BY. I've used it in a video on Daylight Saving Time.
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girlingearstudio (6 months ago | reply)
Thanks for making this great photo available for use in the Creative Commons. I've used it to illustrate why engineers and artists aren't really that different. :)
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