Things you won't find anymore...

vintageMo said:
Remember getting these stamps whenever you purchased groceries? Then you could trade them in for all sorts of free items. Back when stores really valued there customers.
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Oh hell yes. We usually had 3 or 4 different types going at once. S&H, Plaid Stamps, and several others. I never thought much about finances then, but it would have been better if stores simply lowered their prices a little, and chucked the stamps.
 
ChiroDoc said:
Oh hell yes. We usually had 3 or 4 different types going at once. S&H, Plaid Stamps, and several others. I never thought much about finances then, but it would have been better if stores simply lowered their prices a little, and chucked the stamps.
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Oh yes. My mother had books of them. Don't recall that they made a big difference in anything but it was an obsession for a time. Like dish night at the movie theater. Anyone remember that? I do.......we had more coffee cup saucers than coffee cups. More salad plates then dinner plates. Don't even remember what they looked like. Some of the movies were good however.
 
rbtvgo said:
Oh yes. My mother had books of them. Don't recall that they made a big difference in anything but it was an obsession for a time. Like dish night at the movie theater. Anyone remember that? I do.......we had more coffee cup saucers than coffee cups. More salad plates then dinner plates. Don't even remember what they looked like. Some of the movies were good however.
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S&H Green stamps. Oh my! They even had retail stores to claim your rewards.
 
Murrmurr said:
That's pretty funny. I wonder if cabinets were all a standard size when those were installed, and they just happened to be a bit too wide for that wall-space. Or maybe custom sizes were too expensive....or someone just didn't care.
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I think it is a case of someone did not give a s,,,,,,,t, there are some other
oddities in the old place also....
 
Murrmurr said:
I've worked on a lot of old houses, but I've never seen a window like this:


Seems like rain could get down inside the wall, but I don't see any water damage. Just age.
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I did a little poking around and it's a Pie Window or Pie Cooling Window. Found a little clip from a farm house built in Delaware in 1912.

I'm pretty sure the house in the youtube video is in the US somewhere. I wonder if it was a regional thing.

FWIW According to google AI they would have been custom made on site, not ordered from a millwork shop.
 
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Flarbalard said:
I did a little poking around and it's a Pie Window or Pie Cooling Window. Found a little clip from a farm house built in Delaware in 1912.

I'm pretty sure the house in the youtube video is in the US somewhere. I wonder if it was a regional thing.

FWIW According to google AI they would have been custom made on site, not ordered from a millwork shop.
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Interesting! That's cool you looked it up. And I figured if it is here in the US, then it's probably east coast.

To do that mitering on-site with the basic carpentry tools they had back then, and get such a snug fit, seems pretty amazing now. You know darn well they just picked through some boards and started measuring and cutting. Nothing was pre-cut, I'm sure, and I'd be willing to bet there's very little hardware in there, if any.
 
Murrmurr said:
Interesting! That's cool you looked it up. And I figured if it is here in the US, then it's probably east coast.

To do that mitering on-site with the basic carpentry tools they had back then, and get such a snug fit, seems pretty amazing now. You know darn well they just picked through some boards and started measuring and cutting. Nothing was pre-cut, I'm sure, and I'd be willing to bet there's very little hardware in there, if any.
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To me it is more the idea that someone would go to that work as opposed to making a table that would straddle the sill and provide a flat surface. Sensibilities change over time, or maybe it was just one guy who did this?

The example I saw from Del. 1912 a lot of that mouldning and possibly the window sash itself, would have been available from lumber yards or millwork shops. The fit wouldn't be that big of a thing to someone who did it all the time. The quality of the available wood was better, and the tools weren't as primitive as you may think, built to a higher standard than modern versions, but did rely on skill and muscle power.

I've watched old timers work in real life, with nothing more than a cross cut saw, a block plane and a nail set-- trim out windows. A jig or shooting board could/would have been made by the carpenter for specific angles, if needed. If you can find any video of an old timer who did this kind of work pre WW2 you might be amazed at the precision with only their eye and "simple hand tools".

I'd be really interested how wide spread this idea was and for how long of a time.

Thanks for posting it in the first place. Fun stuff.
 

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