My first ever job was at Karn & Garber, Printers and Lithographer in downtown Toronto as a paste up artist. My first day on the job happened to be on International Women's Day, March 8,1983, 29 years ago.
In the early days, we'd use a huge camera to shoot stats and one day, on a Saturday, we made rubylith glasses and put the huge, horizontal camera on its smallest setting (10%, I think) and did a very long exposure so that David (who set the camera) could run in and be in the photo. We turned the copy board flat so it would shoot us. This was the result.
Our art room was a lot of fun to work in...
...and play in too!
We worked with a fantastic group of people...
...who got along fabulously well.
And since were were young, that meant lots of parties...
And peace marches...
Even then, I always seemed to have my camera with me.
We ate together...
...and drank together; this photo from the company Christmas party in 1984.
We had many fabulous parties where we'd do things like play typeface charades (bold? italic?)
But mostly we were good friends who enjoyed each other's company at work and outside of work too.
Twenty-five years later, we got together for a reunion in the exact place we all met, now a trendy restaurant in a trendy area of Toronto. And I'm happy to say, I consider all of them to still be my friends. Lucky me!
Great memories!
ReplyDeleteI have a similar group with my second job at Grey O'rourke Sussman. We still are in touch to this day.
I think being all young, we worked long hours all together but did not care...and continued socializing after hours!
Happy International Women's Day. The story of your first job is great - lovely memories. And it is so interesting to see what you looked like when you were young. You were beautiful then and you still are now.
ReplyDeleteTHis is great, and brings back memories of my first graphic design job in 1991. :) Oh my, stat cameras!! Great post.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! Does this ever take me back. I actually remember cutting ruby with an Xacto and waxing stuff for paste up. What I'd forgotten, though, was how nice it was to be actually working alongside other people. Great post!
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ReplyDeleteTHANKS FOR SHARING VERY GOOD INFO.
I worked on a paper with Art as well, just around the same time.
ReplyDeleteI think about the wax a lot, it was pretty cool.