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Your Story Could Appear Here!
DO YOU have an interesting story to tell?
If you have worked as a Linotype operator, letterpress compositor, letterpress printer, journalist, etc. and have some memories to share, please get in touch.
I am looking for stories to put on this section of the site. I cannot make any payments but full credit will be given. Please e-mail me with a brief outline of the story you would like to appear.
IT WAS ONE OF THOSE DAYS - A poem about the Linotype from the book "In the Beginning was The Word" by David Andrus.
THE MACHINE - Another poem from the David Andrus book.
E FOR EXASPERATION - Dean Nayes sent in this amusing story about a very ingenious Linotype operator.
THE GREEN CARD - Dean Nayes gives us an insight into what life was like for a travelling compositor in the USA in the 1960s.
PENNSYLVANIA PRE-PRESS - Ex Linotype operator Thomas A Berkheiser tells of his time working on the Shamokin News-Dispatch in the 1960s and 70s.
SALT LAKE DEADLINE - Dean D Nayes aka The Itinerant Typographical Engineer tells a story from his travels in the 1950s.
A MEASURED APPROACH - Another fascinating story from Dean Nayes takes us back to the Salt Late City Tribune in the 1950s.