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My husband calls the root cellars "fraidy holes" because they'd run into them when they were afraid of a tornado. Nancy I love your thread and I need to find some of my old photos to post on here. They aren't digital.
 
Linda said:
My husband calls the root cellars "fraidy holes" because they'd run into them when they were afraid of a tornado. Nancy I love your thread and I need to find some of my old photos to post on here. They aren't digital.
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I might be afraid to run *into* some of them.:eewwk: Please do post your pics, Linda. I love old photos.
 
Nancy, most of them aren't old they are just photos I've taken of old things. I love old buildings that are falling down. I have one taken up by the national park above my house of an old out house that deteriorated and then just fell over in pieces. I'd have to go through boxes of photos though and I can't right now. I might go out in my front yard and take a photo of my brother's "yard art". It's an old grape wagon which is probably 100 years old and then he's put all sorts of antiques on it and let the weather ruin them. :( There was an old bee smoker (to smoke the bees out of their hives) and after a year out there it's completed ruined. We just don't agree about this but I let it go. It makes him happy and they aren't "my" antiques out there.
 
I have always kept this photo of me, the older boy and my cousins, of my uncles cleaning the area around our outhouse. When my folks bought the house, it only had a hand pump to the kitchen sink. The house was built in 1900 buy my great grandfather and was in the family until the 80s. It is now slowly falling down.
 

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Linda said:
Nancy, most of them aren't old they are just photos I've taken of old things. I love old buildings that are falling down. ...(clip) ... It's an old grape wagon which is probably 100 years old .
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Linda, I didn't say it right. I meant to say pictures of old things. (Well I like old pictures, too. :)) What is a grape wagon? I'll have to Google that.
 
Pappy said:
I have always kept this photo of me, the older boy and my cousins, of my uncles cleaning the area around our outhouse. When my folks bought the house, it only had a hand pump to the kitchen sink. The house was built in 1900 buy my great grandfather and was in the family until the 80s. It is now slowly falling down.
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That picture is a gem!
 
NancyNGA said:
Waterlilly, is this what you mean by stringing?

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When I did this job, we called it 'spearing' due to the arrowhead (or spearhead) the person doing the spearing puts on the front and then runs the stem through it onto the wooden slat. Of course, we also had to go through the crop while it was growing and pick off the tobacco worms. The farmer that I worked for did not believe in using pesticides on the tobacco or tomatoes. In the tobacco field, we could catch the many, many grasshoppers and use them to go fishing.
 
Thank you, RadishRose. Those are beautiful barns. At first glance I assumed that was a silo on the side of the first one, but it looks like a chimney instead. Old English style maybe?
I looked at the link. Would love to see more of the inside of the second one.

There is an old wooden round barn about 30 miles from where I live. It has been turned into a mattress store.:rolleyes: Maybe I can find picture of it. Pretty crude in comparison, though.

ETA: Never mind, it really is tacky. :p
 
Waterlilly said:
...and the boys who cropped would send little surprises up with the leaves. Tobacco worms are gross!
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I remember going through the garden with my grandmother while she pinched off the potato bugs. She even pinched off huge tomato worms.:eeew:
I would carefully put them down on the ground, cover with a rock and stomp.
 
That barn look huge, Pappy! Oh I so would like to go inside and look around these barns. They fascinate me even more than old houses. Thanks!
 
Another barn paint advertisement, in Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia. (This one's kinda pretty.:))

Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills have their genesis with Edwin Perkins Comstock — who founded a drug company in New York City sometime before 1833. The Comstock patent medicine business was involved in the sale of a number of successful drugs, including Carlton's Pile Liniment, Oldridge's Balm of Columbia, Kline's Tooth Ache Drops and Judson's Worm Tea.

Dr. Morse's pills, and Comstock's Worm Tablets, were manufactured and sold, at least until 1992, by the W.H. Comstock Company Pty. Ltd., in Australia. No information after that.:confused:

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Ina, that reminds me, my cousin and I would count cows on the way to my grandfather's cabin when we were kids. Helped me learn how to count FAST! :)

Did anyone else ever play that game?
 
Family blacksmith shops

The original owner of my property out in the country had a blacksmith shop, according to the neighbors. You can see remnants of an old drainage ditch running from where the building stood, elevated above a head (beginning of a small creek) toward the pond.

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Master blacksmith Francis Whitaker (1906-1999). Aspen, CO

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"The first time I took a piece of hot iron out of the fire and started to beat it with a hammer, I was hooked," he said.

https://www.arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/francis-whitaker
 
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