do any of you remember....

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Registered: 09-19-2003
do any of you remember....
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Wed, 12-10-2008 - 2:00pm
yeah im reminiscing this morning. we had lots of snow and ice here and walking has become very dangerous,although i did go out for my morning walk today,i kind of waddled walked and not powered walk as sidewalks were not clean. where the snow was removed it was ice and other walks were snow and ice covered. most were not salted.so this is where the reminising comes in,my sister who is pushing 80 ok she is 76, reminded me,after i came home complaining about the unsalted sidewalks,that when we were kids,our grandparents and parents would take out the ashes aka klinkers, from the old coal furnace and sprinkle that onto the sidwalks for traction. now that was recycling long before the word "green" even came into being.stick that in your pipe al gore!! LOL i wish we had that kind of heat back,it mite have been a little diry,but it sure was warm. hope your all enjoying the day. hugs mindy

                                             


                                            


                                     


                                  


                             

    

                      

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Registered: 09-19-2003
Thu, 12-11-2008 - 8:25pm

jacquie my mom would have died to own a mangle iron...alas my pa couldnt afford it,but i do remember when she got her first automatic..she loved to wash clothes..and she would have her ringer and the automatic washmachine going..she too hung clothes out and in the basement.and in the winter she would freeze the sheets,and then bring them in and dry them by the registers,letting the coal heat blow the smell thruout the house....min

    

                      

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Registered: 09-19-2003
Thu, 12-11-2008 - 8:29pm

ah yes the coal bin. a favorite place of mine to hide when i knew i had done something that i would get womped for. LOL..we had milk men also...we also had a the fruit and fish men that would come thru with a horse and wagon in the early fifties...one would shout e pesch e pesch..the other wata me loneeeeeeeeeeeeee..LOL...ah man those are some nice memories...one time my uncle frank,who knew i wnated a horse so badly..called me to the door and said look mary,here comes the horse i bought for you...well it was the fish man,but what did i know..i really thought it was my horse...i cried for days when i found out he was kidding me. LOLOL now i can laugh about it...

    

                      

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Registered: 09-19-2003
Thu, 12-11-2008 - 8:34pm

that must have been something to walk in lottie,im sure todays kids wouldnt do it. we lived about 9 blocks from school and we walked there and back four times a day in all kinds of weather also. we werent allowed to stay for lunch cause we didnt live far enough by the schools standards.i remember running home in the snow and the cold,no one there waiting to pick me up in a car or cab. my brothers and sister before me did the same. those were neighborhood schools,they are gone by the wayside now,many have been turned into senior living apartments and school buses come to each neighborhood to pick up the kids and bus them to the opposite side of town.somehow my school days seem alot more safer.

    

                      

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Registered: 09-19-2003
Thu, 12-11-2008 - 8:36pm
lottie we still have our old milk shute in this house,we never took it out along with the ironing board that is still in the kitchen behind a door. the grands revel at where

    

                      

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Registered: 09-19-2003
Thu, 12-11-2008 - 8:37pm
LOL oh yeah we have him here too dutch!! the swanns man...min

    

                      

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Registered: 09-19-2003
Thu, 12-11-2008 - 8:40pm
kaci i have my nonnas old carpet beater hanging on the wall. and yes i still hang clothes out,mostly the shirts jeans bed sheets..not the towels or underwear.i stopped doing that a while back. the dry makes the towels lots softer then mother nature ever could,but it sure doesnt replace her aroma...

    

                      

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Registered: 03-01-2006
Thu, 12-11-2008 - 8:49pm

yeah, I didn't ever see an ice man


but .......pants stretchers! I do remember those!!


I used to hang clothes out until last year when we moved here


we need to put a clothes line up here


but I have a photo on the window sill of my quilt on the line with the sun streaming around it


Dutch

 

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Registered: 03-01-2006
Thu, 12-11-2008 - 9:08pm

oh, Uncle Frank, how mean!!!


such teasing!! I remember that being done to me too!!


I was on Long island, no horses wandering about!


(except on the North Shore with the rich)

Dutch


Dutch

 

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Registered: 09-19-2003
Fri, 12-12-2008 - 9:02am
you and kaci are too young to remember ice men..you guys are just whipper snappers..LOL hey there was a movie the ice man cometh..never saw it though,too much of a prono title..LOL

    

                      

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 12-12-2008 - 10:20am
I hate to say this Mindy, but I believe I am older than you are.

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