Are You Old Enough to Remember.......................

Put me down for positively ancient. And I am grateful for the memories!

 

I remember all of them. In the early seventies my aunt used a wringer washer and hung the clothes up to dry. She still was using coal in the downstairs furnace and didn't have a water heater...that was done on the cookstove in the kitchen. had a party line as well.

My other aunt lived in the country and they had a two-holer outhouse and bed pans for during the night. Dirt cellar under the house. Two cookstoves for heat with extra long stovepipes to get the most heat out of the fire. No running water, just a well with a long pump handle and man was that water ever good!

In our house we had the rabbit ears and b&w tv. It was a real treat to get a color tv and an aerial with a motor on it to turn. The garbage man would walk up to the door and get the cans and take them down the driveway to empty into the truck and then bring them back to the door. I think that was the first time I saw a black man and made a comment to mom that he must need a bath. Mom was terribly embarassed but he smiled at her and told her he understood where I was coming from. We lived in an all-white neighborhood and he knew he looked different to me.
Milkman would bring new milk in bottles and take back the old ones. We'd be gone all day or most of it and no one ever panicked. Doors weren't locked.

 

I also had a two holer outhouse until 1968 at my place (my grandparents back then), we also had a dirt cellar. I dug it out more and cemented it over in the 90's. The coal bins were still there with a little coal left in them. The old kitchen sink was a shallow big metal type and the water went down the drain to a 45 deg elbow and just came right out the side of the house about 5 feet up the side. If you were out back you new someone was running the water when you saw it come out onto the groud.

 

Dad built the bathroom on the house, but we still had an outhouse, for the winter he built a wood deal that a big pot slid into.
My mother was going out to the Outhouse to empty that pot slipped on the ice, fell and she was a mess from head down

 

Yep... had a 2 holer waaay at the back corner of the furthest barn away from the house at our old farm. I remember, as a kid, always making sure there weren't any GIANT wood spiders just under the seat before I used it. Them thar spideys were as big as a golfball and if cornered they left a nasty bite...

 

We HAVE a four line, clothes line in the back yard for spring, summer and fall, and another in the basement for winter. Our clothes dryer might run 5 hours a YEAR! "That thing runnin' cost money boy!", Ever hear that as a kid? Funny how we turn out like our parents. Glad I did.

 

8....and I'm 41 for reference.
I remember my Grand Parents 2 hole out house. It was still in use until the mid 90's when they passed away.

 

Yes to all of them, except you forgot a couple. I grew up in Britannia (can't remember if it had one or two "n"s) and I remember riding on street cars and seeing a few steam engines going by.

 

Wait... Vinyl records are still it.

I remember the riding my bicycle to this place to buy penny candy


And no, my bike didn't look like this:

LOL!!