Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Here's how it was done in 1978




Here's how it was done in March, 1978

Charles Buffum pounding out a story on an IBM Selectric a few years go.

He now lives a life of ease in New York City.

Click on the photo for a better view.

6 comments:

Harry Liggett said...

A few years ago is 31

Larry F. said...

Sure looks like Buff was a one-man newsroom. Either that or everyone else was at the Elbow Inn. :-)

stuart warner said...

did he have the same barber that paynter used?

Anonymous said...

FYI...The Beacon newsroom looks eerily similar/vacant today.

tom moore said...

hey, those were days when journalism was journalism...not a cheap knockoff!!

Don Roese said...

What is that thing Buff is inputting on? It has no screen. Must ba a old timey thing ... back too when cameras used film.