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Here we will post statements that jog the memory of days gone by. If you have some to share please e-mail them.
- From: Roger G. Mueller genemuel@gte.net -- Here's a few I remember:
- You knew who was driving by your house from the sound the car made.
- You could walk to the grocery store, and when there rattle off a list of
items and the store keeper whould fetch each one and place them on the counter in from of you. When all was gathered all you had to do was say charge it.
- You paid your bill at the grocery store every Friday and upon doing so
the storekeeper gave you a sack of candy.
- The store sold kerosene or "coal oil" which was needed for the stove on the back porch and which was used only used for cooking during the summer.
- You could tell by the smell, even if blind-folded, whose neighbor's
house you were in - and you can remember those smells, good or bad to this day.
- You cleaned your living room carpet by hanging it over the clothes line
and hitting it with a metal wand-like contraption to knock the dirt out?
- The ice man delivered ice for your wooden ice-box from a horse-drawn
wagon and chipped off, from huge blocks of ice, the amount that a card
placed in the window showed was wanted (card showed on each of its 4
sides an amount such as 10, 20, 25, 50 - meaning pounds of ice wanted)?
Kids of the neighborhood followed after the wagon, gleaning the chips of
ice to suck which came flying off the ice block as the iceman chipped
away.
- Milk was delivered to your front stoop also in a horse-drawn wagon and
the cream came to the top of the bottle and was carefully poured off to
use for special things? In winter the milk would freeze and push the
paper cap up off the bottle, the cream would be almost like ice cream.
- Girls wore black cotton stockings and black pantaloons for gym class?
- Boys wore cordoroys or knickers because, although there were jeans
(called denims), boys weren't allowed to wear them to school because
they had copper rivets reinforcing the pocket seams and those rivets
scratched the finish on the desk seats?
- Doors to homes were seldom locked?
- Movie theatres costs 10 cents and on Saturday you also got a free
plate or some such goody?
- Movie's were where we got the latest breaking news with Pathe News
releases. And there were serials on saturdays that always stopped at a
harrowing point so that you absolutely HAD to go back the following
week?
- Neighborhood kids hung around the street lamps and caught fireflies or
played "Run Sheep Run", "Kick the Can," "King of the Mountain," "Hide
and Seek." And if you were a boy, you only thought of a girl for your
team as to how well she could run or throw a ball.
- We didn't realize we were the so-called "poor" because everyone was
just like you?
- Hoboes would stop by your house for food and then do some chore for
it? They would mark your house in some way so that other hoboes knew
that place was an easy mark?
- You knew all your neighbors living on your street?
- Your mother canned all she could of vegetables and fruits to last out
the winter months?
- There was no air conditioning in your house but you didn't know you
were hot even though you slept in a pool of sweat?
- At school you were expected to pay attention and learn even though
there too, there was no air conditioning? And you did as expected?
- Most jobs consisted of usually 10 hours a day and 6 days a week?
- If you had measles, scarlet fever, mumps etc. the Health Inspector
would put a large red sign on your front door saying, in huge letters:
"GUARANTINED"?
- Doctors make house calls carrying everything that was available to
heal in a little black bag?
- Street lamps were gas and lighted at dusk by a lamplighter who
returned at dawn to put the light out.
Above submitted by Phyl Watson -- Bet you can think of lots of other "remember whens..."
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