When I graduated in 1964, we still were not allowed to use ball-point pens. I still have and sometimes use one of my old fountain pens. The one I had in high school took a cartridge. You can still buy the cartridges.
I remember the first time I ever saw a ball-point pen. Some kid took it to church one Sunday morning and even the adults were facinated by it. That was probably in the mid ‘50’s
In elementary school I learned to write cursive with a dip pen using an inkwell in a specially-made hole in the desk.
Later, when ballpoint pens first became available (at least to us), they were unreliable and almost as messy as the fountain pens. But I wanted one SO badly because they were MODERN!!
In ‘48 I remember before the ballpoint pens came out they introduced s “kind of” one called Liquid Pencil - it was erasable, kind of.
We all used fountain pens and got horribly messy. Later they came out with the cartridge ones, but I graduated in ‘60 and I think we were using ballpoints by then…
pschearer, You & I must be the same age. I only experience ink wells, full ones, & fountain pens the year I went to school in Pennsylvania. I won’t say how long ago that was, but we got really upset when the Russians launched Sputnik.
whiteaj over 14 years ago
“What’s a ‘fountain pen’?”… ah, memories.
Sherlock Watson over 14 years ago
A few days ago Jeff had a time bomb under his hat; if he’d had it today, he might have gotten a lot more than free ink from the bank.
jppjr over 14 years ago
Love writing with a fountain pen…best writing instrument around….oft messy, but good!!!
w7tyg over 14 years ago
Ink is about all you get from a bank these days.
Tsali-Queyi over 14 years ago
When I graduated in 1964, we still were not allowed to use ball-point pens. I still have and sometimes use one of my old fountain pens. The one I had in high school took a cartridge. You can still buy the cartridges.
I remember the first time I ever saw a ball-point pen. Some kid took it to church one Sunday morning and even the adults were facinated by it. That was probably in the mid ‘50’s
pschearer Premium Member over 14 years ago
In elementary school I learned to write cursive with a dip pen using an inkwell in a specially-made hole in the desk.
Later, when ballpoint pens first became available (at least to us), they were unreliable and almost as messy as the fountain pens. But I wanted one SO badly because they were MODERN!!
craigwestlake over 14 years ago
In ‘48 I remember before the ballpoint pens came out they introduced s “kind of” one called Liquid Pencil - it was erasable, kind of. We all used fountain pens and got horribly messy. Later they came out with the cartridge ones, but I graduated in ‘60 and I think we were using ballpoints by then…
ChuckTrent64 over 14 years ago
pschearer, You & I must be the same age. I only experience ink wells, full ones, & fountain pens the year I went to school in Pennsylvania. I won’t say how long ago that was, but we got really upset when the Russians launched Sputnik.