VISIT TO FLORENCE AZ

 Monty and I visited Florence AZ in December 2015 and took in some interesting sights.

I tried a case in the Pinal County courthouse  in the 1970s, and during a lunch recess I wandered into a local museum.  I was somewhat shocked to see dictation equipment there identical to that used by my mother when she worked at the Freeman Shoe Corp. in Beloit in the 1940s.

 

The same  Ediphone equipment remains on display in a museum in Florence,  but in a different building and much better shown. Dictation was recorded on a rotating wax cylinder, which was played back by the secretary to transcribe it.

 

They also had the shaving machine, used to shave off the wax on the outside of the used cylinder so the cylinder could be re-used for more dictation.

Here is the old courthouse, nicely restored and still in use for some county offices. The courts have moved to a much larger building.

 

 

The interior was decorated for the Christmas season.

I now dress much more casually than I did  the last time I was there!