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Linda, yes I lived on the east coast. With a large number of immigrants. Probably why we had more than one, Georgia.
Holly, we had ice cream pony carts. With jingling bells announcing the arrival of the handsome young drivers....that all the adolescent/teen girls were in love with.
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Today is overcast..thankfully, my meds are kicking in and my pain has lessened. I pray to what ever powers to enable me to get through my seemingly insurmountable task of clearing my sewing room out.
May everyone have a great day...
 

We still have the knife/scissors sharpening man going by every now and then in my area, with his cart and bell. Same goes for ice cream truck, but much less often these days.
Never seen a rag man in my life, but we used to have the ice wagon when I was a wee kid coming to fill up the iceboxes.

That pony ice cream cart is so cute, Nona.

Today I've got a quiche in the oven for a visit from my son and his cat for lunch. Real men do still eat quiche, but cat will not, she'll bring her own food and toys.
 
My daughter would have been in 7th heaven when she was young if a horse pulling an ice cream cart had come along. :) I've usually lived in the country and maybe that's why no one came by. About 20 miles from where I live where it's more populated they still have the little ice cream trucks and they are very popular.

Today I'll just stay home and do some house cleaning and wait for a call that my new eye glasses are in. Somehow they were lost and if they aren't located soon they are going to make me another pair.

Cookie, I like your cat riding a bike. :)
 

ndynt said:
Perhaps I lived in a different era? When there were knife and scissor grinders carts, the fish man, the ice man, the rag man, a man that sold just about everything...clothes, fabrics, pots and pans ect., the fruit and vegetable man, the bleach man, the soda man. All immigrants. All with push carts or horse and wagons. Except for the milk man. He had a truck. Any one else old enough to remember all these peddlers?
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Nona, we had the Rag Man. He scared us all to death!

No push carts in my area, but many things were delivered then; groceries, milk, bread, dry cleaning. I think it was because a lot of families didn't have a second vehicle back then and if a mom needed to shop during a weekday, she had to drive dad to work in the morning.
 
Second vehicle? LOL! A lot of families didn't have a first vehicle back then. A year or so after the war, my dad bought a 1932 Graham Paige. It didn't have a second gear so whenever we had to go up a hill, he'd turn around and back up. We did a lot of backing up because there were a lot of hills in our town.

Our groceries were delivered on Saturday afternoon. We only had neighborhood grocery stores; the first supermarket didn't come to our town until 1952. My mother would send me to the supermarket (on foot) with a list and $20, and I took a taxi home with the week's groceries.
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Second vehicle? LOL! A lot of families didn't have a first vehicle back then. A year or so after the war, my dad bought a 1932 Graham Paige. It didn't have a second gear so whenever we had to go up a hill, he'd turn around and back up. We did a lot of backing up because there were a lot of hills in our town.

Our groceries were delivered on Saturday afternoon. We only had neighborhood grocery stores; the first supermarket didn't come to our town until 1952. My mother would send me to the supermarket (on foot) with a list and $20, and I took a taxi home with the week's groceries.
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I enjoyed hearing about your childhood shopping trips. Don't you wish you had that Graham Paige now?
 
Though probably not then......the second gear thing is soo funny, Georgia. So true, about most families not having cars. Would walk to the trolley car or train station, where I lived. We had a mom and pop grocery stores....and the first of the grocery chains (A&P). Groceries were delivered.
 
Flying the Vice President, his secretary and a friend of the Vice President of the company that I fly for down to Richmond later this morning and then back home after dinner. I just checked the aviation weather forecast and it looks to be a dreary day. This man, (the VP), is also a nervous flyer and we will be in turbulence for most of the short trip because of flying in low altitude and crappy weather, so I will make sure that we have a fresh supply of sickness (barf) bags on-board the aircraft.
 
Going out with cousins for Chinese food at lunch. Checking in online this afternoon for our flight tomorrow. I am soooooo ready to go home. 5 weeks was just too long to be here! Not that I didn't enjoy myself, but after a while my sister who is always talking is getting to me!
 
Nothing like home, after a prolonged visit, Annie.
Have a safe trip, oldman.
Today it is very overcast still. Some of the creeks are flooding. Have had to close a popular waterfront restaurant. I hope to have a productive day....separating things. Have five big boxes...for two grand daughters, daughter, sewing friend and Senior site.
 
Oh, my...if I still had that Graham Paige I could sell it and be A Woman of Independent Means:)

Eine gute Reise, for each of you, Oldman and Ameriscot.

My final follow-up with the eye surgeon went well. She pronounced the surgery a 100% success and...I also got a prescription for new glasses, saving me having to make a separate appointment with Kaiser's optometrist. There was no co-pay today because it was a follow-up from the surgery. Getting the prescription for new lenses saved me another co-pay. I feel positively flush with cash. LOL
 
oldman said:
Flying the Vice President, his secretary and a friend of the Vice President of the company that I fly for down to Richmond later this morning and then back home after dinner. I just checked the aviation weather forecast and it looks to be a dreary day. This man, (the VP), is also a nervous flyer and we will be in turbulence for most of the short trip because of flying in low altitude and crappy weather, so I will make sure that we have a fresh supply of sickness (barf) bags on-board the aircraft.
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Oldman, I thought you were going to say you were going to have a fresh supply of the VPs favorite alcoholic drink on board, I was surprised when you said "barf bags" :) :)

Today I haven't done much except sit here at the computer and feel sad and crying as I got an email from my grandson who is going to school in the bay area. He said he's staying in the computer school till he is accepted into the Air Force. I have known for a month or two he was thinking about it, but it seems more final now. This is what he said: "I'm going for Security Forces Specialist, I'll pretty much be checking peoples' IDs and guarding Air Force property." So he'll be going far away from his family here in California where he's spent his whole 21 years. I know he's just going because being around here makes him miss his dad more. And his dad was in the army for a few years. I know everyone has to live their own life path and it's better than him staying on the mountain top and being a hermit, which I was afraid was going to happen for a few months after his dad died. Still, the way the world is today it concerns us and I know we aren't alone in worrying about the young men and women we love who go into the service.

So I think after my husband and the dogs wake up from their nap we will go to Wal-Mart as SPY with Melissa McCarthy is suppose to be out on DVD today. Her movies always make me laugh and my daughter and my x-daughter-in-law both told me it was great.
 
Big hugs Linda. I hope you feel better soon. It is worrying when our young ones go into the service, or work as my nephew does with doctors without borders. Still, they are serving their countries and that means a great deal. :love_heart:
 
Shalimar said:
Big hugs Linda. I hope you feel better soon. It is worrying when our young ones go into the service, or work as my nephew does with doctors without borders. Still, they are serving their countries and that means a great deal. :love_heart:
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I remember when your nephew was missing Shalimar. I'm glad he is safe now. I know, what would we do without those willing to serve their counties. Oh, I'll be fine after I get out of those house for a couple hours and do a few things. :)
 
Ameriscot said:
Going out with cousins for Chinese food at lunch. Checking in online this afternoon for our flight tomorrow. I am soooooo ready to go home. 5 weeks was just too long to be here! Not that I didn't enjoy myself, but after a while my sister who is always talking is getting to me!
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I know exactly what you mean! After 1 or 2 weeks I want to be back in my own house.
 
Shalimar said:
I feel a bit woozy. Got called in to give blood. Big accident. They needed O negative. That's me! I guess they were short??
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Good for you Shalimar. You know, I've never worked up the nerve to go in and give blood and it's one of the things I plan to overcome. My oldest grandson, who is 22, has been giving it since he was a teenager, whatever age they allow you to start. I commend his mother for getting that started as she would take him with her. No telling how many lives you have saved.
 
I was ready to go home after 3 weeks. Staying in other people's homes or going from hotel to hotel wears me out. I had a good time but I'll never do 5 weeks here again. Our upcoming trip is different - not tiring at all. We'll be in the same house - just the two of us - for 3 months and we'll develop routines, and also have no visitors this time.

Trying to figure out how to juggle next summer! Nephew's college graduation the end of May in Michigan, visiting family as usual in Michigan, sister coming to visit us in Scotland, brother and his family possibly coming to visit us during the summer. A wedding in Scotland the end of July. Today I was trying to talk my cousin and his wife who love cycling like we do into visiting next summer!
 

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