Posted on 12/16/2018 4:04:18 AM PST by vannrox
It has decks on each side for oil lamps or lanterns.
There is one buried in the old unheated warehouse with a leaking roof.
It will get dug out one day. Doubt it’s in any decent shape.
I had one once. Lost it in a divorce. Made by Riverside Furniture. Oak and very heavy. Had lots of nooks and crannies, even some hidden compartments.
I’m pretty sure the PC killed the rolltop desk once and for all. By the late 1980s, they were still popular for people’s personal offices. But you couldn’t put a computer on one, and by the time laptops replaced towers in the office, we became such a paperless society, who needed one?
Again: they were for people who had so much paperwork that it was impractical to put it away.
BTTT
I bought one at Costco 20 years ago. Some of the cubby holes were omitted to allow a space for a computer screen and one side of drawers were taken out to make room for the CPU.
The article uses ‘chubby’ instead of cubby. Have never seen chubby as an alternative spelling..
me and him???
Illiterate
When I read ‘chubby hole,’ something else came to mind that is not appropriate for a Sunday morning.
Same here... Later in the article, there are several other spelling and grammatical errors. ‘Me and him liked boxing’ or the like. An editor or at least a second opinion is always helpful when writing.
I have a rolltop desk circa 1996. A massive piece, it was made for a computer, with the lower left cabinet designed to hold an upright desktop computer box. Strategic holes for cords and cables. It is a stunning piece of furniture. The rolltop itself is a thing of beauty.
I understand the manufacturer discontinued the desk after a short run because the desk is too large to fit through most interior doorways.
Have one now which I purchased new in the late 1970s, made by the National Mt. Airy furniture company in Mt. Airy, NC. Couldn’t use it as a computer desk during the years of big, heavy CRT monitors, but it has been my computer desk since I got my first flat panel monitor.
It’s a full size roll top, but has more slots than small drawers which I think is more practical these days. Like most furniture manufacturers in the US, National Mt. Airy is no longer there. It burned down sometime in the 1980s and was not rebuilt.
The closest we got to a rolltop desk was a rolltop breadbox.
That sounds like something in the men’s room between exits 16 and 17 on the interstate.
But he does spell it correctly in his illustration of features, so I take it as a typo.
Still, does that explain the rationale that every man should have one, when the historical picture shown has a woman seated at it?
It’s where they hid Earl Williams in His Gal Friday.
Been there, did that. Not gonna do it again. No usable space to speak of. No thanks.
I don’t think I’d want a roll-top, but I think it’s time for a proper desk. I started working from home and the road a couple years ago. My desk is a $38 folding table from Wal-Mart, no drawers so it’s covered with stuff
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