So I am finally having my moment here. I am very proud of my desk, but it had a bunch of junk on it, and so I didn't post a picture. Made by Hamilton-Economy.
As you can see, it's two-sided, and both work spaces are movable. They had rows of these, and so if you got between two of them, you had both work surfaces.
Coincidentally, here is my mother demonstrating this during the cold war. She worked at Lockheed in the avionics department. This really is my mother. It looks to me like she is smoking a cigar, so I think somebody had a baby and they're clowning around.
I have the original photo, and it really does look like it's the same desk made by the same company. It's a narrower model two abreast and they have a pencil tray accessory on there which I don't.
How I got my desk was that one day, I was at school at virginia Tech, and I found it out behind an engineering building. They were scrapping it. One of the catch mechanisms is actually broken, so the drafting table didn't lock, and I guess that is why they junked it. My roommate drove a truck and we went right back and got it. It weighs a lot, oh my goodness. They took the bearings out of the 4 bar mechanism carrying the drafting table and took it apart to make it easier to move. Anyway, i am working from home, and I have set up my office in the shop. i don't have room for all my stuff but I'll get rid of something else.
I've done a lot of drafting on it, and drawing review also, over the years. It is set up for a big mechanical square mounted at the top, maybe I should find one or or else take the bracket off.
