[GreenKeys] Hot lead - Linotype machine photo

[Josh Bensadon]

Anyone not familiar with Linotypes, there's now a movie!

https://linotypefilm.com/

PS. I have this movie... anyone in the Toronto Area is welcome to come visit for a private viewing.

Josh Bensadon
Toronto





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From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 2:48 PM
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Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Hot lead - Linotype machine photo

Many years ago a bookstore in the town where I was living published
the memoir of an old newspaper man, under the title of "Hot Type
and Pony Wire".  Hot Type of course refers to a Linotype machine.
Pony Wire was a telephone circuit where, at a certain time of day,
people from the various newspapers subscribing to the service would
listen on a telephone circuit and take down the news as it was read
to them.  Woe betide the listener who asked the talker to slow down
or repeat!

I guess the book didn't sell well.  I happened to notice it when browsing
the store and seeing books on closeout sale.  As I was buying a copy the
sales woman said something to the effect that it didn't sell well and she
thought the reason was the title.  I told her the reason I was attracted
to the book was because of the title.

I suppose the verbal pony wire was a direct replacement for a Morse code
circuit, available to papers that didn't want to pay enough for Teletype
service.

I've enjoyed several books of that genre of memoirs of retired people,
but there doesn't seem to be much of a market for them.  One I bought
from a vanity publisher and it came wrapped in a big sheet of paper
that was printed with someone else's memoirs, in this case a retired
diplomat.  I thoroughly enjoyed the pages that were there, but not
enough to want to order a real copy of the whole book.

Jim W6JVE

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         "Ya can argue all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was."
         "No it ain't! No it ain't!  But ya gotta know the territory."
                 Meredith Willson, The Music Man
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