I have. He's the guy in the comptroller's office who watches the gas meter during the winter months to see that the office is not overly heated. A fine practice used only in the finer offices around the Country.----Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Doerr<mailto:bdoerr@msm.umr.edu> To: mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com<mailto:mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 2:17 PM Subject: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Obsolete occupation Hi A not-so-old occupation that has become obsolete and is likely to be forgotten, is that of Comptometer operator. Operators' fingers would fly! Probably, half the population has never heard of a Comptometer. Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks Sole surviving founding officer, Missouri Chapter, Nature Conservancy, 1956 http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/missouri/<http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/missouri/> Editor, since 1992, Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal http://www.mosga.org<http://www.mosga.org/> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message