Although it would help me in later years, when Lisa saw me reach for a pencil and my yellow legal pad, her lips pursed and she said, “We don’t do it like that.”
Since I looked puzzled, she continued, “We type as we write. You will get used to it.”
So I picked up a green set of sheets with their carbon inserts and rolled it into my manual typewriter.
It was 1955 and this was my introduction to being on the writing staff of WAVE-TV’s Continuity Department. The building was located on the southwest corner of Preston and Broadway.
My desk was next to the announcer’s desk which was handy for them as the small landscape mirror painting I had brought from home as a decoration for my work area disappeared now and then into their restroom, Two spaces, approximately three inches by five inches each were all that remained of a mirror in the trees and water oil painting and how they managed to shave with that was always a puzzle to me.
But shave they did as in those days, all commercials were live and well-groomed men in suits were in demand.