Someone (Carol Moran I think) asked if anyone remembered The Ironton Tribune when it was on Railroad Street (at 4th where the car wash now sits). I took these pictures in about 1970-71 for a project I needed for college (OU). Since I had worked in the mailroom at The Tribune after high school I knew everyone in the back shop and they welcomed me to take a series of pictures. Among those in the pictures are James Whitey Gullett, pressroom foreman; Bob Kellogg, Joe Gann and Richard Schwab, pressroom crew; and Lou Douglas, a composing room printer. All are gone except Richard. The old press, which you could see through the large picture window from Railroad Street, was a circa 1890s Goss Straightline press, the press that revolutionized printing from the old flatbed presses, which were slow, to the higher speed rotary style presses we still see today. Of course, todays presses use the offset printing process and I dont think it will be long until there are high speed digital presses. Digital already exists just not at a speed that would be efficient for newspapers. This press and printing process would continue only until sometime in 1974 when urban renewal took the property and the Tribune moved to its current location on South 5th Street.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:50:53 +0000
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