My sewing machines don't go back that far, but my favorite is a 1941 White rotary. It's cast iron, only sews forward and back, but is like a tank as far as sewing heavy stuff and has a lot of amazingly complicated fittings and feet for ruffles and shirring and hemming and such. They were highly engineered back in the day.

Fall has arrived but cool weather has not. We're at ~99 for the next couple of days, before some rain is forecast. It's a good time of year once we can enjoy being out of doors. Soon.