Women's Mad Lib

Okay, so it's cold, I'm cold, the sky is gray and Survivor's on. I lost my MVP in Fantasy Survivor, beautiful Brady is gone, GONE! What is this world coming to? What are those men thinking? Kicking off the youngest guys? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?

Okay! So, on to the skyscrapers. Today I learned about the typewriter. The innocent and outdated typewriter and the changes it brought with it. It fascinates me how one thing can change the face of everything. (I'm very deep). But, meaning that steel changed the face of skyscrapers, literally. And the typewriter changed the fate of women.

Women were mainly either not working, or working as sales girls for Potter Palmer and Fields. This was good work and a sales girl was fairly high status in the middle class. But with the invention of the typewriter, women were suddenly being hired in offices. Now that there were offices because of the skyscraper.

The typewriter was marketed for women by women and at first the typewriter companies trained their own women and then sent them to the companies. Then all these schools started popping up and women were walking into offices fully trained. And the men allowed this because generally, the women were wasting time before they met someone to marry. So basically, they were the first temps. So the men didn't feel threatened, the women weren't trying to get their jobs. Then, the managers were happy because even if someone left, a bright new young face would walk in and would automatically be trained and ready to go.

Crazy, that we owe some degree of women's lib to the typewriter.

I'm just moving on to Sullivan and the building of the Auditorium theater with Dankmar Adler. The rumor I hear is that that's where the saying "you could hear a pin drop" came from, because the acoustics in that particular theater were so astounding. More on that tomorrow!

Brady come back Brady!