Useless and out of date skills I was remembering, not ones you would ever put on a resume:
How to operate a mimeograph or make the templates. (Remember the smell?)
Same with a ditto machine, they weren’t the same thing.
How to set graphics using an exacto knife, adhesive graphics and blue graph board.
How to develop and enlarge a photograph
How to load my own film in a completely dark room, especially UV film
How to make a blueprint/sunprint with ammonia and blueprint paper
How to sew using a pattern and using an uncomputerized sewing machine
How to use an encyclopedia, the many volume paper kind
How to use a phone book
How to dial a rotary phone
How to read and orient a map
How to purify water using a black plastic bag and a bucket
How to replace a phonograph needle
How to operate a phonograph
How to use a card catalogue
How to put up a canvas tent with wood bars and rope lines
How to put up a tipi
How to use a blue pencil to edit
How to use a single edge razor blade
How to replace a double edge razor blade
How to load a Bell & Howell Movie projector
How to load a slide projector
How to use a phone with no phone number and only a party line
How to use a 110 film camera
How to use a Polaroid camera
How to use a Flash bulb/cube
How and when to use Kodachrome 25 and 64 film
How to use a cash register with push down keys
How to count change back to someone
Edit: How to use a typewriter, change the ribbon and use correction tape while typing.
