some old Texas calligraphy.....

[bravowhiskey]

It seems the wifes' granddad was quite the calligrapher.
I had seen some of his work in the fold of the old family bible. Names, births and deaths. very cool stuff.
Digging in some old family pics the other day we came across this envelope addressed to my wifes' mother by her dad. Wifes' maternal grandad..."Daddy Jim"
He did a wild revision on a wood stock atop a .30 carbine that we have too.



funny that is all the address you needed in those days... not so long ago in 1947.

sometimes I hanker for the old days.... until thoughts turn to such things as old time dentistry and such.

bravo

 

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[pa plateau hiker]

And they're not even teaching kids how to print anymore. I know kids that cannot read the printed word.
Cursive, that's what I meant, not printing.

 

[liftloop]

you can pass high school
while the teacher reads your exam to you


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[texasred777]

That is some really nice writing. I've always been fond of fancy handwriting. I can still print and write cursive that is readable; but with age it has deteriorated a bit. Yes, I can remember when a lot of people's mail would reach them with the name, town, and state for the address.
Now y'all have hit a nerve! I'll try to make this short; I could probably make it several pages long. I'm 71 yo. I graduated high school in 1960. I spent some time helping my wife's younger brother with some of the 'new math' that had just started in the mid 60s. I had a hard time trying to get it through my head just what the book was trying to tell me. I just could not believe it could be as simple as it appeared. But, it was. Just count the little circles and write how many there were in the bundle. My daughter came home with some math problems. I showed her how to work the problems. She came home the next day telling me that the teacher wouldn't accept the work because it wasn't done the way it was being taught now. What?? I talked to the teacher. I told her that I really couldn't see just how the 'new' way was better than the 'old/my' way. She said that she had also been taught the way that I was taught, but that now it had to be done differently. After several days of fuming about the 'new' way, I found a couple of problems that the 'new' way would not work. I called the teacher and explained it to her. She admitted that this had been a problem all along; but wasn't going to be changed. Then they started letting the students use calculators in class, even on tests. I was told that it saved class time! Talk about 'dumbing down America'. Give a cashier a ten dollar bill for a $4.69 purchase. If he/she didn't have the register to tell him/her how much change to give back, they would be lost. I wonder just how many could really make change like we older people used to do? OK. I'll get off my soapbox; but, when we wakeup some morning, and find that technology has been wiped out by some disaster, it will be too late.

 

[mamabear]

Penmanship is truly a lost art. How sad.

 

[voodoo]

Love calligraphy! very nice. thanks for sharing. This a true art form nowadays.

 

[BosnMate]

That is some really nice writing. I've always been fond of fancy handwriting. I can still print and write cursive that is readable; but with age it has deteriorated a bit. Yes, I can remember when a lot of people's mail would reach them with the name, town, and state for the address.
Now y'all have hit a nerve! I'll try to make this short; I could probably make it several pages long. I'm 71 yo. I graduated high school in 1960. I spent some time helping my wife's younger brother with some of the 'new math' that had just started in the mid 60s. I had a hard time trying to get it through my head just what the book was trying to tell me. I just could not believe it could be as simple as it appeared. But, it was. Just count the little circles and write how many there were in the bundle. My daughter came home with some math problems. I showed her how to work the problems. She came home the next day telling me that the teacher wouldn't accept the work because it wasn't done the way it was being taught now. What?? I talked to the teacher. I told her that I really couldn't see just how the 'new' way was better than the 'old/my' way. She said that she had also been taught the way that I was taught, but that now it had to be done differently. After several days of fuming about the 'new' way, I found a couple of problems that the 'new' way would not work. I called the teacher and explained it to her. She admitted that this had been a problem all along; but wasn't going to be changed. Then they started letting the students use calculators in class, even on tests. I was told that it saved class time! Talk about 'dumbing down America'. Give a cashier a ten dollar bill for a $4.69 purchase. If he/she didn't have the register to tell him/her how much change to give back, they would be lost. I wonder just how many could really make change like we older people used to do? OK. I'll get off my soapbox; but, when we wakeup some morning, and find that technology has been wiped out by some disaster, it will be too late.

There is a local convenience store, and a local high school grad got a part time job in the store. I bought an item for $2.69, and put a $5 bill and three quarters on the counter. She couldn't make the change. I told her to give me $3 and 6 cents back. She started crying. I felt terrible, pulled the three quarters, she made the change using the register. Then she got a job at the local bank. I kid you not. Now with the new common core text books it will only get worse, much worse.

Getting back on subject, I have a photo of my great grandmother that she signed on the back. Wow! They really were taught penmanship in those days.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

They have just about trashed the education system in the name of progress.
Progress to what annihilation? Companies can't find employees that are educated enough to work for them! You know the basics, reading, writing, math, plus my all time favorite, being able to think. They blame lack of a college education.
Maybe it's too much of the wrong kind of education.

Calligraphy requires time, it's relaxing to produce something beautiful. Guess it doesn't fit in our fast paced road to ruin.

 

[texasred777]

BosnMate, I love that picture. The handwriting is flawless. I'm sure that it made you feel bad when the girl began crying. You just reaffirmed my statement about how the newer generation has been dumbed down. You continuously see these movies about after the destruction of society and how the people cope so marvelously. They make do with what they have and live quite well. I wonder just how well the newer generation would fare if it happened today?