Yardsticks

What ever happened to yardsticks? Do you remember them? You used to get a yard stick and a calendar the first of every year, from the bank, the grocery store on the corner, the full service gas station and CHURCH! We always had yardsticks laying around the house. Moms favorite ones were the nice thick ones that had a brass head and a brass hole in the top for hanging it by the door. Didn't EVERYBODY have a yardstick hanging by the door? It was used for measuring the kids to see how much they grew. then they were penciled into the sash on the door, so you could tell at a glance who was growing and how much. THe line and name and date were put there.

I am working on a project and I need to measure the distances between pictures, and I need a yardstick. You cant find one any more. Well yes you can, but you have to pay for them and they are really flimsy, can't whack a behind without them breaking anymore.

Maybe they went away with the metric system...But I remember when we were gonna try to go to the metric system, and it had meters and centimeters on one side and feet and yards on the other. They were 36" long thus the name YARD stick. All of the advertising that used to be on the back of them was fun to read too, and the old phone numbers ORchard 5-2492 ORange 8-3809 GRizly 7-7848 now you have to remember 10 numbers to call someone, and if its busy you have to remember their CELL phone too.

All I want is a good sturdy Yardstick, with the yards and feet and inches marked on them. preferably free with a hole in the top to hang by the door. That's all.