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Old 01-12-2011, 06:14 AM
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Originally Posted by pad's
my husband always said I was older than dirt......also having "ice blocks" delivered for ice-box, phone #'s without area code, parents first # of 49J was increased to 549J as more phones were added to the party line. I still would like to be dropped into Greenfield Village to reside, as long as I had my mom's White treadle to sew on.....how would "kids" today survive with a nation wide power outage ?????
oppppps, forgot about the coal furnace with octopus arms in the basement and heat vents for upstairs that were cut openings with grids so you wouldn't fall thru & hope your bedroom happened to be upstairs as heat rises.....remember cinders being used instead of salt on roads with snow & ice.....
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