06-28-2002, 07:04 PM
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Pixies Den Mother
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: No-Hockey Land, dammit!!
Posts: 11,897
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Originally posted by Scarecrow
Do you remeber having to use coal to heat with or cook with??? Pumping water from a well by hand or god forbid the Outhouse?
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Yes...we had to heat with coal and coke.....had to buy a mix. Coal was harder to start but lasted longer and Coke started faster but burned down quickly.
Remember using the ashes on your icy sidewalks? Or having to sift out the "clinkers"?...
Neighbor had a water pump...I remember playing with it when I was 2 or 3...
Also remember the TV/radio tube testing machine...
Wish I could find one today..I have a 1938 Philco floor shortwave radio...it still turns on...but needs new tubes... |