Is it "Welcome to the Jungle?

[Red Ball]

[ My kids enjoy telling people that their dad used to be a stripper. It's hard for their friends to imagine a 6'2" 300 pound stripper I guess.[/QUOTE]
Not difficult, just unpleasant.

Welcome from the Kingdom of Texas!

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

Welcome to a outstanding Signs 101 and people'

Thank you

 

[Richard G]

Welcome from Sunny South Florida. 3 years 11 months and 14 days USN. Signs since my wife started all this in 1989

 

[FatCat]

Welcome to the forum - 2nd generation printer here turned sign maker. Yeah, spent lots of time at paste-up with the hot waxer, blue lines, film stripping, even ran a little bit of offset press back in the day. (Never had the opportunity to work with any lead type or letterpress.)

I think you'll fit in fine here.

 

[BobM]

Welcome from Cape of Cod to north a bit.

 

[Gino]

Welcome from PA.................................

 

[Bigdawg]

Hello, folks.

An antiquity had just joined your site.

35 years in the trade, started off laying out business cards in 1977 and sold my artistic soul so thoroughly that I can't even feel the void anymore.

Anyone remember hot wax?

Ahh yes... still have my roller, triangle and square... started typesetting on a Compugraphic 64 and a Headliner... I was an unabashed queen of the rubylith and zipatone back in the day (cut color overlays for grocery store ads).

And it's not that you can't feel the void anymore - it's that we fill it with all the things we create. The void only pops back up when you stop creating!

Welcome to Signs 101

 

[Bigdawg]

Anywhere close to Johnson City?

The Ridgewood Restaraunt (just outside of that fine town) served
me and mine the finest Bar-B-Que that I have ever had the pleasure to
consume.

I appreciate the welcome.

RGBII

Now that is some yummy stuff!!! My son and his wife still live up there... thanks for reminding me where to eat when I go back up!

That's funny Volunteer - I used to strip 4color too... my kids told their friends I was a stripper without a pole...

 

[J Hill Designs]

welcome from cali

 

[signworldusinc]

welcome great introduction it made me laugh welcome from California by the way.

 

[RGBII]

About an "hourish" from Johnson City. I too have enjoyed the BBQ at the Ridgewood...you are correct it's great stuff! I have also did the hot wax as well as the lead type thing. I had the "pleasure" of being a journeyman 4/C stripper back in the day as well. My kids enjoy telling people that their dad used to be a stripper. It's hard for their friends to imagine a 6'2" 300 pound stripper I guess.

Too cool finding "Old-School" folks here, really brings back memories.

However, the mental image of a 6'-2", 300 lb. male stripper (literally applied) is more than a bit disturbing!

I fell in love with the Dark Room myself. 2 Agfa Verticals, a NuArc Gallery that was customized & maniupulated to the point that we were able to
photograph the copy board in perspective (and in focus- I am not lying!)
Special Effects was too cool back in the old days.

Still have my favorite Dark Room curtain, screen-printed "Dark Rooms are for Dark Things!

Thanks for your response Volunteer, it is appreciated and respected.

Welcome from Sunny South Florida. 3 years 11 months and 14 days USN. Signs since my wife started all this in 1989

Thank you for your service. Good for you and your wife to be in business together, very impressive!

Ahh yes... still have my roller, triangle and square... started typesetting on a Compugraphic 64 and a Headliner... I was an unabashed queen of the rubylith and zipatone back in the day (cut color overlays for grocery store ads).

And it's not that you can't feel the void anymore - it's that we fill it with all the things we create. The void only pops back up when you stop creating!

Welcome to Signs 101

As I stated earlier, it is a fine thing to find so many "Old-School" Graphics/Sign folks here. I loved Letraset Screen Tints myself (maybe too much, looking through the portfolio).

As far as the "void" goes, that's just cynical political philosophy on my part (commercialism and all that). I willl not raise any danders here discussin' that kind of tripe.

Thank you, Bigdawg, for the welcome and the response.

I'd like to thank all of the other members that have posted here, your time, welcomes and posts are appreciated and acknowledged.


I've only perused a scant portion of this site, nonetheless, I am very impressed with what I have seen. I look forward to a serious learning experience.


RGBII

 

[ColoPrinthead]

I enjoyed your intro. Welcome!
I remember hotwax, but was using it for AutoTrader books in 2001. And we wondered why that office was shut down and the work moved elsewhere.