Who remembers these things back in the day ?...come and add your own memories..

2bcbf1fa98a873c218c9a06d3aa7b440.jpg
Oh, indeed I do! We had three bedrooms in a converted attic with inadequate insulation. It was bad enough when the wind wasn't blowing, but when it was, we might as well have been sleeping on the porch.

And those windows were always frosted over inside. We'd have to scrape some off to see outside.
 
I remember how the Monopoly Game temporarily became a local rage. The whole family, became involved. We kids sometimes played hooky from school just to play it.
we used to bang on the top to get a picture sometimes...
And constantly fiddling around with that two long-eared v-shaped antenna to improve reception. And having to get up to change channels.
 

It was a beautiful machine!
I learned to sew in school on a very similar Singer treadle machine. This was the late 60's and electric machines were very popular but my school didn't have them except for the use of the teacher.. and I could never co-ordinate using the treadle while concentrating on feeding the cloth through the needle...
 
Now @hollydolly you finally got me on one. I don't really remember the milk being delivered. I think that must have stopped a few years before I was born. The skates with keys, I do remember fondly and I believe I had the bronze baby shoes or my mom had them.
Don't ask me why, but I still remember the name of the milkman in my neighborhood - Johnny, who drove for Twin Pines Dairy. All the houses in our neighborhood had "milk chutes". Photo is of the house I grew up in, but much updated. The milk chute was on the right hand side of the house -- well, until my Dad bricked it up sometime in the Sixties.

540 Harrison.jpeg
 
I remember how cold it was in January and February. A glass of water would freeze overnight
in my upstairs bedroom. The Parents gave me an electric heater because it was so cold.
--------
Then there were the nights in July when I would go out my bedroom window onto the porch
roof with my sleeping bag because of the heat in my room. "your going to roll off there and
break something!" thas what they said. ... :coffee: ...
------------
I have a Floor AM radio in my mancave but I never use it. Decoration now. Parents listened to
the Noon Time Hog and Cattle markets. Afternoon delivery to Oscar Mayer, Chicago Yards.
 
Last edited:
The Treadle Sewing Machine circa 1880s. My mother inherited one of these machines from a relative. The cabinet was wood and the machine made from cast iron. She sewed just about everything on it.


View attachment 371942
I had my great-grandmother's Singer treadle machine that she bought in 1903. It looked very similar to the one in the picture. And it still worked well.

When I was downsizing, nobody in the family wanted it, so I sold it to a lady and her very elderly mother. When the mother moved here from Central America, she had to leave her treadle machine behind and she was beyond joy at getting another one. She had no interest in sewing on a modern machine.
 
I don't use mine any more but I have one
The Neighbor Broke his lower leg, after the cast, then the knee rest roller thingy, he gets himself one of those reel mowers
and pushed it all summer 2023. He now has a new lawn mower.
 
I remember those huge blocks of ice being lugged and being delivered. Funny how the refrigerator icebox is so casually taken for granted. these days.
The iceman would come into the house and put that big block of ice in the box , then it would last a couple, possibly 3 days . The little chips around the ice truck were free for us kids to snag. My grandma was very careful and none of us ever got sick with food poisoning.
 
Back in the day it seemed like everyone smoked, even on hospital wards.

View attachment 372144

The worse offenders by far were the power stations:

View attachment 372145
I have't seen one of these types of machines in many years

8717427a648e7de970b7936148500840.jpg

b831e9b90ea98def064934b82e310438.jpg



fc80484aff04a0348551950f32b76bde.jpg


remeber cigarette coupons ?.. you saved them up and then could redeem thousands of them for a kettle or something simialr..
My parents would save and save and send my to the Catalogue shop to get a new iron..

fc98180b16517bddb0ce09dcd99d0d23.jpg
 

Back
Top