Once common Item or Activity, Now Unusual, A-Z
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Mary1949
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Mary1949
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Back when I was a child there was an Australian woman on TV, Shirley Abicair, and she used to play a zither. I've never seen it sinceWhat is that, @Mary1949 ?COUld you tell a bit about it?
Kaila
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Oh thank you, the musical instrument! I had forgotten all about that! I do remember hearing it played, now, perhaps in NYC (New York City) … very unique sound. Perhaps lots of strings.
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Annie, the musical, used to be extremely popular.
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Evening card games....
most with the very common and simple decks of cards, which every home had some decks handy and they were well used and worn, till the corners gave away which cards were which!
Also common were special decks for specific games. Starting with playing the easiest ones with young children, ("GO FISH!" ) and then, on up to adults gathering with friends, there was so much social interaction, around the card tables.
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most with the very common and simple decks of cards, which every home had some decks handy and they were well used and worn, till the corners gave away which cards were which!
Also common were special decks for specific games. Starting with playing the easiest ones with young children, ("GO FISH!" ) and then, on up to adults gathering with friends, there was so much social interaction, around the card tables.
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Kaila
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Home remedies for all sorts of things....
all different types, that the women mostly passed down to, and told to each other...
back when almost no one went to doctors (unless already 3/4 or more dead...
Some recommendations were probably tales, but many methods , I think, actually helped, or at least did not worsen things. Most (that I am referring to) did not have the dangerous side effects from over-use or mis-use, as many products bought now, do.
Anyway, people did not run to drug stores, or doctors, for each thing, as some people do now.
They seemed to know and trust and use, some simple practical remedies, and antidotes and treatments, that were readily available in most farmhouses.
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all different types, that the women mostly passed down to, and told to each other...
back when almost no one went to doctors (unless already 3/4 or more dead...
Some recommendations were probably tales, but many methods , I think, actually helped, or at least did not worsen things. Most (that I am referring to) did not have the dangerous side effects from over-use or mis-use, as many products bought now, do.
Anyway, people did not run to drug stores, or doctors, for each thing, as some people do now.
They seemed to know and trust and use, some simple practical remedies, and antidotes and treatments, that were readily available in most farmhouses.
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Laundress - Usually a poor, immigrant woman doing backbreaking work, scrubbing clothes and linens on a washboard
Kaila, your farm house remedies (vs modern pharmaceuticals) made me smile. Back in those "good old days," life expectancy was a fraction of what it is now. People (many of them babies and children) died of infectious diseases that are easily curable now by modern pharmaceuticals. And people live normal lives with many chronic conditions that used to make them invalids. I'll take the modern stuff over Professor Pennypacker's Castor Oil any time!
About the zither question, many years ago there was a spy thriller movie called The Third Man that featured the zither as background music. It pretty much introduced the zither to the public, who mainly had never heard of it until then. Here's the theme from that movie, played on a zither:
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Kaila, your farm house remedies (vs modern pharmaceuticals) made me smile. Back in those "good old days," life expectancy was a fraction of what it is now. People (many of them babies and children) died of infectious diseases that are easily curable now by modern pharmaceuticals. And people live normal lives with many chronic conditions that used to make them invalids. I'll take the modern stuff over Professor Pennypacker's Castor Oil any time!
About the zither question, many years ago there was a spy thriller movie called The Third Man that featured the zither as background music. It pretty much introduced the zither to the public, who mainly had never heard of it until then. Here's the theme from that movie, played on a zither:
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Actually I made mead once for a Shakespeare's birthday celebration. It's tasty stuff.
Outhouses. Now mostly seen only in very rural areas because they've been replaced by comfort castles which is just a mobile outhouse IMO.
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That was the First post on this thread that I have no knowledge or memory of. What is in it? So curious!
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Post Office...OH WELL< NOT out of existence....yet! Even though sending letters by post is clearly out of vogue! It's so rare now, that they had to make up a new word for it..."snail mail"
So I need a new one for the letter...
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Paste?
That gooey sticky white stuff tht was often eaten by young children? Everyone seems to use a hot glue gun, now, which must not smell (or taste) half as good!
