lunes, 6 de febrero de 2012

Hardside Briefcases: What Is The History

By Kaliyah Edward


The briefcase has been around for a few hundred years now but you might not believe what they were first used for. Salesmen would have to travel a lot in the past and the briefcase was their best friend because it would let them carry all of their materials and they also used it as a safe. The item that we view as being insignificant today was a major item in the past that help business go mobile.

In the past big time money gamblers would also carry a briefcase. Gamblers just like the salesmen did a ton of traveling in the past. They would use their briefcase just like a salesmen, it would hold the item for their profession such as a poker chips, decks of cards, etc.

If you were a traveling gambler chances are you were also a con man. These traveling gamblers would want to get out of town as fast as they possibly could and the briefcase allowed them to do just that. They could stack up some major cash and then hit the road before anyone knew they had been hustled. This was great for them because if they were got they could face some life threatening punishment.

Another type of person that would carry a briefcase in times past was doctors. As you might already know there were not that many doctors or hospitals back then , so what the few doctors would have to do is carry their medicine and all other materials in briefcase in order to make home visits. Although it sounds very out of this world to us today I wish I could have a doctor stop by my place every now and then for a checkup.

Now that we have a little brief timeline of the history of the briefcase we can clearly see that it has made some long strides and has been redefined. Today we use briefcases for mainly white collar professions like lawyers and business men.

The one thing that has remained constant with the briefcase is that since it was originally created it has always had more than one purpose. In the past doctors used it for medicine, gamblers used to help them get away and salesmen used it to hold their material. Today you might see a business man walking with his briefcase or you might meet someone like me that just has the briefcase lying around the house until I need it.




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