Country images you don't see much anymore

[fureverywhere]

Nancy I remember my grandfather getting regular coal delivery and the coal room in his basement...forgot all about that.

See, even before texting kids didn't drive safe!

 

[applecruncher]

I can barely remember but I do recall my grandma using a washboard outside. I definitely remember my mom using a wringer washer. I used to help guide the clothes from the other side.

 

[RadishRose]

Freezer chest style soft drink "vending machines." Not sure what you call them. Little country stores and gas stations often had one.

I remember seeing these a time or two!

 

[Pappy]

Nancy I remember my grandfather getting regular coal delivery and the coal room in his basement...forgot all about that.

See, even before texting kids didn't drive safe!

Grandpa would wet down the coal as it came down the chute to keep the coal dust down. I can remember him complaining when coal went to $20 a ton.

 

[jujube]

An old homestead in the Cataloochee Valley, NC, a part of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Note remnants of the Sears catalog pages that were used as wallpaper.

 

[jujube]

An old homestead in the Cataloochee Valley, NC, a part of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Note remnants of the newspapers and Sears catalog pages that were used as wallpaper. View attachment 25548View attachment 25549

 

[jujube]

I remember seeing these a time or two!

Yep, fishing around in the ice and water, trying to find the last bottle of Grape Nehi.

 

[NancyNGA]

OK guys, time to get educational.

Tent Chautauquas
Chautauqua was an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A Chautauqua assembly brought entertainment and culture for the whole community, with speakers, teachers, musicians, entertainers, preachers and specialists of the day.

Tent Chautauquas were traveling versions of the Chautauqua movement, often held in rural locations. The program would be presented, and after several days the Chautauqua would fold its tents and move on.

A notable participant was Eleanor Roosevelt, in Miamisburg, OH, 1940.

The other participants on the program look thrilling, especially ...

"Bubbles Concerto - A Soap Film Fantasy "
An entertainment feature consisting of hundreds of demonstrations in soap film, blowing bubbles, with an attempt by the producer to present the various effects in logical and rhythmic order....music accompanies the exhibition of soap bubbles... While the spectators view the performance, their minds drift dream-life (sic) with the beautiful bubbles that form rise, float and vanish!

In the 1969 Elvis Presley movie, The Trouble with Girls, Presley's role was the manager of a tent Chautauqua.

 

[Stamper]

NancyNGA, Our home in Ft Wayne IN was built by Amish from Grabill, IN. Amish from Arcola, IL built my brothers barn in IL. I loved there work. Also When we moved to Wisconsin in 1990 I saw barns with hanging tobacco too. Couldn't believe it especially this late in time, but was told they grow it for cigars.

 

[NancyNGA]

Corn cribs





One from the inside



This is supposed to be a very old corn crib in Spain. A very interesting building in any case.

 

[SeaBreeze]

Butter churn

 

[NancyNGA]

Good one SB. I actually saw my aunt's husband's mother churning butter on the porch with one of those in WV when I was a child. I can just barely remember it.

 

[NancyNGA]

Home canning, anyone?

Near the end of every summer the long canning process would begin. Hot pack, cold pack, whatever. The kitchen was a steam bath through mid August, no AC back then. It took days because you could only do a few qt jars in the pressure cooker at a time.

We had a pear tree, 3 peach trees, and grew lots of tomatoes and green beans.And you had to peel and snap all of these things.

Blackberry and raspberry jelly, sealed with wax.

Then carry them all to shelves in the basement.



Whew! I'm tired just thinking about it.

 

[Pappy]

The old farms always had an old vehicle sitting around somewhere on the property.

 

[NancyNGA]

One room schoolhouses.

This picture is of Oakdale School in Loyston, Tennessee, 1933.



Loyston was a community in TN that was completely inundated by the waters of Norris Lake after the completion of Norris Dam in 1936.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyston,_Tennessee

 

[NancyNGA]

Quilting Bees. I remember quilting frames like these set up in my grandmother's dining room in the winter:

Quilting frames hung from the ceiling:

 

[Pappy]

I like this one. Look at the old gas pump.

 

[NancyNGA]

Great picture Pappy. Wonder what's the pump on the right? Kerosene, maybe?

 

[Pappy]

Probably, Nancy. I didn't see that until you mentioned it.

 

[NancyNGA]

Two horse power threshing machine.

 

[Linda]

Old cream separator my brother put by my little barn (pump house).

 

[NancyNGA]

What beautiful property and cute barn, Linda. Thanks for the cream separator picture. I've never seen one of those before. And a windmill...

 

[Linda]

Thanks Nancy.

 

[NancyNGA]

Farmer reading The Progressive Farmer, Coryell County, Texas, September 1931. (Photo by George W. Ackerman)

 

[Shalimar]

Love the lace up boots!