How Singer Sewing Machines Financed the Dakota

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[@donnaz.z.1421]

Great story. My father was a Singer Sewing Machine employee in it's Corporate Purchasing office in 30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC. My uncle was also employed by Singer in Elizabeth, NJ. He was a co-inventor of the self-threading bobbin. I learned to sew on the manual pump Singer we had back in the late 40s/early 50s. I still have my mother's vintage (1960s) Singer and purchased a similar Singer a few years ago for my teenage granddaughter.

[@jenerous76]

I used to have one of those Singer cabinets....it was the one with two small drawers on both sides. That was a cool "behind the scenes" story. I didn't know Mr. Singer was so popular with the ladies.....or his connection to The Dakota. Interesting stuff.

[@StrangeHistoryX]

Yep, he was indeed popular with the ladies. He probably had a great sense of humor. Ladies like stuff like that. :)

[@778denver]

Beautiful pictures!! Great job, thank you.

[@LucyLennon909]

Another superb story with beautiful graphic pictures. Thanks, X

[@DonnaBrew]

My great-aunt bought a Singer 221 Featherweight new in 1954. She then passed it on to my mother in the early 1960's and I learned to sew on it around 1967. I still have this machine and it works just as well now as it did then.

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

Great story.

[@mickeyTX.]

That was so interesting.. what a man..! I have at least 2 of these old machines.. one is in very nice condition with all the parts and tools.. my quilting friend’s husband collects them .. they are beautifully restored..and displayed throughout their home..

[@StrangeHistoryX]

Very cool! Isn't it amazing how many people have held on to them simply because they are beautiful antiques. I have a small one that was given to me as a gift. I love it.

[@mickeyTX.]

@@StrangeHistoryX my last one was a gift from my 101 year old friend Ms.Irene.. even came with a stool that opened with all kinds of tools and “things”.. I treasure it also..

[@kahlodiego5299]

I still have and use a singer sewing machine. My great grandmother had one in her house that was powered with bicycle peddles.

[@peggymcthompson261]

I have three Singers. Two are treadles in the cabinet and the portable Featherweight.

[@Tinkerbe11]

My grandmother had a Singer sowing machine, and we gave it to a local museum.

[@Reina.Nijinsky]

@10:33 ty for mentioning adopting from ur local animal shelter 🙏🏼 Shelters in NYC are almost at capacity.

[@cheribee968]

So incredible Just lush with history

[@ILoveWoolerbear]

Great info! I had no idea about Singer. Thanks for encouraging pet adoption first and foremost! I do have my German Grandmother's Singer! She most likely bought it for $10 way back and used it often. I love looking at the Dakota in NYC and know the film Rosemary's Baby was supposedly the couple's apt building. Filming in the building is not allowed however. I'm happy the owners are so particular about who they let purchase the apartments. Thank the gods Madonna was rejected as this and she herself would have turned the property into a circus.

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

Everybody has had a Singer sewing machine

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

I was wondering how he financed the Dakota people, from the title.

[@bradselby8797]

Does anybody know who Singer was actually married to? Hint, there's a big famous statue of her located on the Hudson River.

[@johnsteelman-d1s]

HELLO, WHAT ABOUT THE DAKOTA ? HOW WAS THE SEWING MACHINES FINANCED THE DAKOTAS APYS . ? PLEASE REPLY , JOHN FROM NORTH CAROLINA .

[@charlesbolton8471]

He answered that at the very beginning of the video (and in the video description). Edward Clark was Singer’s business partner. They both made a ton of money. Edward Clark used some of his share of that money to have The Dakota built.

[@StrangeHistoryX]

Yep. Thank you. :)

[@ardas77]

I need to buy myself a sowing machine to try and make curtains I want (cheap and detailed :D)

[@betsydooly5927]

Was clarke responsible fir the sewing machine thread.that's all the spools i have?

[@Larkinchance]

I thought this clip was about the Dakota?

[@joeyvocals1]

That's why the man died young! 26 kids????

[@StrangeHistoryX]

It's amazing he had the time or energy to do much of anything besides that.

[@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104]

I wonder what his descendants achieved.

[@megawhitesox0574]

yeah singer finance the lie that this building is not tartarian,and our generation founded it, yep they founded.with horse and buggy they build it ,and i have a farm to sell you in china.

[@lemapp]

When I lived in SillyCon Valley back in the early 2000's. I meet more than a few Dot-Com wives who had several of the top end electronic sewing machines. They all had one machine for straight stitch and another for zigzag. Of course switching stitches on those machine was a simple click. Nice to have that much money to have very expensive machine just sitting around and only used occasionally at best.