GOING, GOING, GONE: MANUAL TYPEWRITERS

(Source of picture: Online Florida State Archives Photographic Collection)

What a clickety clackety racket the old manual typewriters made!  These intent students were enrolled at Jacksonville School of Technology in 1949.  Yes, manual typewriters have gone the way of slide rules and carbon paper.  A typewriter similar to one of these now decorates the living room of the website manager of JacksonvilleStory.com. 

Today's typewriters, with their memory capacities, are part computer.  But even they can't hold a candle to word processing at a terminal.  It doesn't seem possible that this website, for example, could have been created on any type of typewriter.

Back to picture: The Jacksonville School of Technology was operated by the Duval County School Board.  It offered a diversity of trade & vocational classes, including instruction in sheet metal, real estate, shorthand, radio repair, commercial art, fabrics study, furniture sales, cosmetics sales, the choice & preparation of foods, and the use of slide rules & steel squares.  The institution even offered an aviation room in order to teach flying.  (Click here for photo.)  In 1949, the school was located at 129 King Street, past the western edge of LaVilla.  Its founder was William R. Scheel, a Riverside resident who was married to Alma until his death in 1949. 

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