Do You Remember When? (2)

[bcauser]

My Dad cleared out the attic and set up a table and put the train up there. I don't know where they all came from but it ended up being huge. Thanks Dad!!
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B

 

[Springrain]

WOW B

That is good stuff

 

[Mickey1953]

I have always enjoyed trains.... I looked into buying one that was around the 1950's, but the price tag was not something I could manage....I ended up buying a Hersheys Train for my Christmas Village....nothing old, but I liked it....
Great train!!!!!

Enjoy the day
God bless!
Mickey

 

[bcauser]

Did anyone have one of these? It's a mangle iron. My Mom used to press the sheets with it.
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[bcauser]

of course we had to iron the old fashioned way.

 

[C.F.W. Walther]

My Dad cleared out the attic and set up a table and put the train up there. I don't know where they all came from but it ended up being huge. Thanks Dad!!
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B

I was thinking about puting up my dad's train that grandpa got him in 1915. It was one of the first eletic trains built. I'd have to look at it again to find the name. I didn't do it this year becasue of all the turmoil.

 

[bcauser]

I was thinking about puting up my dad's train that grandpa got him in 1915. It was one of the first eletic trains built. I'd have to look at it again to find the name. I didn't do it this year becasue of all the turmoil.

Maybe it would bring you some kind of peace John do it put it up.
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B

 

[Mickey1953]

Putting up your old train.... that would be wonderful.....I do not know your turmoil Radidio....but, as bcauser said, 'it might bring you peace'...

My thoughts: because the little kid in me can be brought to a peaceful place, by enjoying a small train....
Even as an adult I love the sound of a big train going by.... my daughter lives out in the country, but there is something special about the sound of a train....I pause and listen....and smile....
Shared with respect and God's peace to you
Mickey

 

[Springrain]

Do you remember the old print press shop?

 

[bcauser]

Do you remember the old print press shop?

wow spring, great pic's. Not all that familiar with that kind of stuff but I do know they are old.
Spring you haven't commented in our Idols thread, don't be scared away, it's just fun.
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[Jim1927]

That's when they handset each letter in a frame and then printed...Hard to imagine producing a newspaper, one letter at a time.....

The best I can do is the old Gestetner and handcranking out the church newsletter and Sunday bulletins.

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Springrain]

...And there were TOY printer sets...I could not find one online anywhere. Then I ran across these photos.
My dad worked for a large city newspaper that already had large machinery but the small town where he was born and raise (he took us there to visit family) had a small print shop just like this one in the photo. That was in 1950s.

 

[bcauser]

my grandparents had one of these old stoves

my neighbores years ago had one of these

 

[Springrain]

OH yeah, my mother had a stove same as your first graphic. They put it iin the basement like a backup for canning and (oh yuck ) synging the chicken feathers of those live chickens they butchered.

 

[bcauser]

anybody have one of these??

my grandparents had one almost like this.

 

[Mickey1953]

I had to smile when I saw your outhouse.... I grew up in the city and when I was 18 my parents got tired of living theref and moved out into the country.... way out in the country. We had a 'Jesus Barn' - thats what it was named....( people had church services before us in it)
and we had a old fashion out house right beside it.

Now my husband, who is the same age as me, had an outhouse till 1963.....
Also they had a farm.... they bathed once a week in a big tub...after working all week on the farm....
they did not empty the water, but reused it for all the family members....woe to the last one who bathed in it....

Also your stoves.... a house my mom and dad had bought there was an old stove in it.... and my folks never took it with them when they sold it.... I always wanted to try one of the old ones....
thank you bcauser for all the you share -
God's peace
Mickey

 

[Springrain]

B
do you have a story that goes with your outhouse??????????

And of course one of these has to be inside.....as my grandmother had one secreted under the bed.

 

[bcauser]

I had to smile when I saw your outhouse.... I grew up in the city and when I was 18 my parents got tired of living theref and moved out into the country.... way out in the country. We had a 'Jesus Barn' - thats what it was named....( people had church services before us in it)
and we had a old fashion out house right beside it.

Now my husband, who is the same age as me, had an outhouse till 1963.....
Also they had a farm.... they bathed once a week in a big tub...after working all week on the farm....
they did not empty the water, but reused it for all the family members....woe to the last one who bathed in it....

Also your stoves.... a house my mom and dad had bought there was an old stove in it.... and my folks never took it with them when they sold it.... I always wanted to try one of the old ones....
thank you bcauser for all the you share -
God's peace
Mickey

boy took a bath once a week??? and you still married him just like 'Little House on the Prairie" did they use the outhouse till 63?? oh my,
thanks for sharing
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B

 

[bcauser]

B
do you have a story that goes with your outhouse??????????

And of course one of these has to be inside.....as my grandmother had one secreted under the bed.

yep I remember my grandparents had one under their bed.
When we went to visit Grandparents in the early years and I was only about 5 we had to use outhouse, but I tried not to, grandfather always would say when you walked up to it to holler and scream a lot to scare the snakes away. Then from then on I tried not to ever use it and hold everything till we left and had to stop at first gas station to you know what. Grandfather also told us of once being in it and it blew over one time, true or not, not sure. But he had plenty of stories to tell and none of them made you to excited about using itl Thank God when they finally had one put inside!!
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[Jim1927]

In England, I don't ever recall seeing an outhouse as such. We did have facilities attached to rear of house and it flushed down an open drain beside house to street sewers. We later had indoor facilities with a chain hanging dwon beside the loo to flush it. All our plumbing was outdoors attached to house.

Now, when I was in the army in Korea.......wait, that is another story you don't want to hear.

Cheers,

Jim