Hi Bob I'm just old enough to remember those old clunkers. I used to do some part-time actuary work for a now defunct insurance company - Great West Life - in Clayton. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Doerr Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 4:28 PM To: mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com 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/ Editor, since 1992, Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal http://www.mosga.org ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message