[BCMA] Exhibit Opening at the Creston Museum

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Office Evolutions

Creston Museum, Creston BC

Opens April, 2011

 

 

Celebrate Office Professionals Day at the Creston Museum!

 

Staff and volunteers at the Creston Museum have been busily working on a
brand new exhibit, and would like to invite you to come down and check it
out!

 

How many of these do you remember? Doing exercises to strengthen your hands
for typing, and then getting your little finger caught between the keys of
the typewriter.  Sniffing the ink on pages copied with a Gestetner.
Computers with green and black screens that used 5¼ inch floppy disks – or
even punch cards.  Cell phones that weighed several pounds, and phones with
no dials because you just rang up the operator and asked her to connect you
to the number you needed.  Electric Scotch tape dispensers.

 

Depending on your age, you might remember many of those things – but the
tape dispenser is likely to be a surprise.  It is massive: over a foot long,
very heavy, fairly complex-looking machinery, and all for the sole purpose
of cutting Scotch tape.

 

Welcome to Office Evolutions, the new feature exhibit at the Creston Museum.
It includes all of these things, and more, in a special look at the
ever-changing world of office technology.

 

Banking in the days before computers. Accounting in pen-and-ink. Business at
the speed of Canada Post.  Those who were there will find plenty of memories
in this exhibit; those whose business life started within the last fifteen
years will wonder, “How could anyone run a business like this?”

 

Prominently featured, of course, are some of the Museum’s many
word-processing machines. This includes everything from a typewriter with a
double keyboard, a couple of tiny portable manual typewriters, one very
large electric beast, and the first computer from the first business in
Creston to computerise (circa 1984).

 

Office Evolutions opens at the Creston Museum on Office Professionals’ Day,
April 27, 2011.  All office professionals, and anyone else who is
interested, are invited to attend a special reception at the Museum at 219
Devon Street, Creston, BC.  The reception runs from 12:00 to 7:00 PM, giving
plenty of time to stop by at lunch on the way home from work, or even to
take some well-deserved time off during the afternoon.  Admission is free to
everyone with a business card, by donation to everyone else, and
refreshments will be served.

 

And yes, there will be some old office machines waiting for you to try them
out.

 

For more information, contact the Museum at 250-428-9262 or
mail at creston.museum.bc.ca.

 

 

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