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How globes were made...1950's
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oldguyinTX
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Primly dressed ladies & a spray guy with no mask. But I do remember those globes - we had one of the really big ones at my school - and I always found it fascinating to turn it around and read the country names - one one of our globes, even older was from the 30's. Not so many of those countries left on today's globes.
pegasus1300
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I remember going to Moisant Airport in New Orleans (Louis Armstrong International today) In the main lobby as you walked in was a huge globe on axis at the proper angle rotating around. In one of the many remodels it was removed,I wonder where it went?
ARtraveler
R.I.P. Dwayne
Similar very huge sized globe in the Minneapolis Star & Tribune lobby. When I was a sixth grader, that was an impressive site. And then there were the linotype machines that they used to make the daily paper. The times, they have a changed.
Used to love those 16mm movies with that same music and giving us information about everything in those days. The only thing different was that the films were usually in black & white. I was a projectionist in fifth and sixth grade, so I got to see more than my share of the "educational" films. Nice memories. :yes:
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JimVonBaden
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I love globes and maps and have several!
Copperman
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Very Nice.
PrairieSpyder
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My favorite home reference book was always the world atlas. Too bad so many of the names have changed.
