Vintage Office After
The finished product. Don't you love how the old floor turned out? We were able to do the renovation on this room due to the funds donated in the name of Velma King Scoggin, a former student and later teacher at the grade school. Velma's son, Johnny Scoggin from Texas, wanted to honor his mother and he made this room possible.
The room features local items and pictures of local businesses. We have a number of old typewriters, check writers, adding machines, etc. And guess what? We do allow you to touch. This is a hands on museum and we want the kids to be able to see and feel.
The way the idea for this room came about was that while cleaning an old typewriter found in the school, and covered with rat droppings, and the remains of a rat's nest, some kids came by and asked what it was. Was it a computer? Where do you plug it in, they asked. And where does the disc go? I realized that kids of today would grow up not having the experience of using a manual, or probably an electric typewriter, so we set about to save the ones we found and to accept donations of others. We now have a sizable collection.
