My Brooklyn uncle, who knows about these things, said on Broadway and 
the television studios, that there were whole shops of girls with 
typewriters. The producers and writers would send messengers around with 
last minute script pencilled-up changes and expect 20 or 30 copies back 
in a couple of hours for the evening's or morning's dress rehearsal. No 
copy machines in those days and the actors didn't like carbons, although 
the lesser folks got them. These were multipage, bound scripts or 
screenplays, whatever they are called. His girlfriend was well-to-do, 
owned a whole building somewhere off 42cnd near Times Square and 
sometimes would have 20 or 30 girls typing all night on her ground 
floor, which by the time I knew her had been converted to a big growing 
floor with lights and a 2-story greenhouse attached to the back. She had 
moved the typing operation somewhere else and they used a couple PC's 
and had a highspeed laser printer/collator as big as my car.

When I was in jr and sr high school, girls were not allowed to take shop 
and drafting, and boys were not allowed to take home ec. Period. . I had 
the famous career counsellor in high school who looked at my aptitude 
tests, which showed I would make a good small engine mechanic or forest 
ranger, and said "Girls don't do those things - you are too smart for 
that... you need to be a teacher or social worker." This was in 1969. I 
took woodshop, design, drafting, and engineering graphics in college. 
And worked as a social worker for years.

~deb

Jim Hicks wrote:
> I remember something in the past with someone connected with Broadway (a
> man) being able to type 120 wpm. Big mucky muck producer I think.
> j
>   

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