I had nuns in primary school - the Sisters of Charity. They did wear habits and veils. The Brothers at St Pats were a bit of a mixed bag with regard to uniform. The Property Manager was a brother. He wore a white open neck business shirt with small gold crosses on his collar and a grey dust coat. Most of the rest of the brothers including the headmaster wore black habits and sashes in winter and black shirts and black trousers in summer. All this garb was worn with the black and white Roman collars.

I had "Sisters of Mercy" though there was no mercy if you didn't do your homework...

The Sisters of Charity were very charitable. The boys got a makeshift version of the strap and the girls got a 40cm ruler across the back of the hand. And they complain about a lack of equality.

Ah, I went through the public system in the 50s and 60s in Sydney's southwest..

I saw some sadistic monsters in primary school. You think the Catholic system was bad? Ha!

One boy earned the epithet "Caneproof". Mr Smith used to take demonic delight in trying to break him. Once he'd drawn blood from both his hands he started on his backside. Caneproof would just smirk in defiance.

I could go on, but enough. One hopes discipline methods are more enlightened these days.

The primary ethnicity of the United States is German, that's why its voluminous published output has remarkable accuracy. By comparison, I note British/Commonwealth published grammar/spelling to be often sloppy/error-prone. I was once on the Brighton Pier [SE Eng.] and a sign there had an its/it's error: How did that ever survive supervisory imprimatur!?

How did that ever survive supervisory imprimatur!?

I think it's probably a universal phenomenon that signwriters cannot spell or punctuate any better than their clients can. A mate of mine and I used to photograph howlers with a view to maybe producing a book with the title "Signs of the Times". I still have the (pre-digital) photos some where. One I will never forget was "English Lesons" beautifully painted on the window of a night school that allegedly gave them.

Decades ago our local fruiterer's handmade price signs rendered every noun plural by the addition of 's. Hence apple's, banana's, pear's and potato's. When I told him that potatoes had an e in it he made it potatoe's.

Those are funny. Like when Dan Quayle "corrected" the kid in classroom by adding 'e' to potato on blackboard.
He copped a lot of ridicule, but I kind of side with him: his mind being logical/consistent with plural 'potatoes'?

This radio looks pretty close to the one in that book:



An RCA Radiola 61-8

I was doing the rounds today and I spotted a small Radiola Radiogram/ Record player, Probably late 40s , I'm not savvy on these so I can't dated it as I'm not into them, way Too Early for my liking, Anyway it needs the cabinet Restored, But the veneer would come up fine, Chassis was all there and original, It's up for sale and don't think it would be much


,pete

This radio looks pretty close to the one in that book

By George, I think he's got it!