I had occasion to look at an old file in the law firm I worked for. It was from, I don’t know, probably the very early 1980s, maybe a little older.
It was a file that pertained to a trust.
I saw 2 things that blew my mind. The first was a beautiful example of “statistical typing” which used to be a thing before spreadsheets.
The other was the info which was so neatly presented: the holdings of the trust. American Can, American Glass, American This, American That on and on for pages and pages.
We used to MAKE things in this country and it wasn’t really that long ago.
Your post dredges up one of my deepest laments, having long-standing family ties with manufacturing in *The Hardware Capital of the World.*
True. And it wasn’t that long ago. :(