Country images you don't see much anymore

[NancyNGA]

Rubber work boots with metal clip closures

 

[Aunt Bea]

Rubber work boots with metal clip closures

I remember those, didn't they call those buckles railroad tracks?

 

[NancyNGA]

I remember those, didn't they call those buckles railroad tracks?

Don't remember what the clips were called, Bea, but they sure look like RR tracks.

 

[Pappy]

We called them galoshes. I use to wear them to school. The 4 buckle type.

 

[Pappy]

 

[Aunt Bea]

Saw one of these in the thrift shop the other day and it was a new one on me.

I did a couple of searches and found that they are fairly common, who knew!

 

[Falcon]

Well, Whadda you know; A tandem saddle! I don't think the horse would approve though.

GIDDYAPPP!!

 

[NancyNGA]

 

[Aunt Bea]

We used to go to this mill in the 70's to buy pancake flour now the pancake flour is made in a nearby factory and the old mill is out of work, very sad.

 

[Pappy]

 

[NancyNGA]

There are some country images I think we are happy not to see much anymore.

The Boll Weevil

Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils which he has picked off of cotton plants. Macon County, Georgia. Dorothea Lange, photographer, July 1937

Dusting calcium arsenate on cotton fields with mules.

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[NancyNGA]

Workers picking cotton with burlap picker bags.



Migrant workers weighing cotton and recording the figures in a notebook in South Texas, 1936.

 

[NancyNGA]

Roadside pecan sales. A good friend of mine grew up near Meeks. I believe he said it was just a crossing, not a town. What a coincidence to find a picture on the web.

 

[Meanderer]

More pictures of Meeks

 

[NancyNGA]

Thank you for that article, Meanderer!

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Aunt Bea]

For over 70 years this was a country image on the shore of Lake Ontario at Sacket's Harbor, New York!

http://www.thousandislandslife.com/...The-Great-Warship-That-Waited-and-Waited.aspx

 

[Meanderer]

Very interesting story and link, Bea! Thank you!

 

[NancyNGA]

Cheese press and cutter

 

[NanaSarah]

To me...these are country images...My now-gone relatives who had been born in Sweden and moved to the United States gathering together for the day. Favorite foods filling the table...AND the yucky/smelly foods like lutefisk! The sounds of their familiar accents. Accordion, guitar, fiddle music played by various relatives. The men in hats and women in dresses even if we met in a park. The hugs of people who loved me just because I was alive. All the generations enjoying time together. Laughter! Laughter! Laughter!

 

[NancyNGA]

Great mental images, NanaSarah. Thanks.

 

[NancyNGA]

Tablecloths? What are those?

 

[RadishRose]

Oh, how I'd love to have my mother's tablecloths, similar to the one here! Starched and ironed.

 

[NanaSarah]

Tablecloths? What are those? QUOTE]


LOL...too funny Nancy! My grandma had tablecloths like the one pictured. Don't you just love the wallpaper? I'm trying to figure out what the design is.