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I suppose we adapt too quickly to our new play things. Expecting everything to just keep going for ever. When one thinks about it there was not much to go wrong with am iron pot.
posted by
C_C_T
on July 29, 2020 at 11:25 AM
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I was a really picky eater.....
My worst nightmare was coming home from grade school and Mom and Dad was in the Kitchen stripping down a hog.....OMG! 
When we had pork or beef, I had to have meat purchased at the A&P store and I had to see it in the package, and cooked in a separate skillet.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on July 29, 2020 at 7:47 AM
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Were you on Party Lines? 4-6 people would share the phone line. Each household had a different ring....you had to be careful with what you said because the other people on the line could pick up and listen in. Of course, they wouldn't do that!
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on July 29, 2020 at 7:42 AM
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As someone who is 35, I look at the ways people had to live and wonder how I could have done it. For instance, Cousin Vince grew up in Baltimore with outhouses. It's hard to believe that cities were like that in the 40s.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on July 29, 2020 at 6:52 AM
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Kabu
Kind of mechanical biofeedback.
posted by
BC-A
on July 28, 2020 at 11:41 PM
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You've seen a lot of changes since you were a girl in Australia. Here too, there are many changes and they keep on growing exponentially. This was such an enjoyable post. I love reading about your days in Aussie-land. Your posts are always a good read.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on July 28, 2020 at 6:17 PM
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I remember a very similar situation -"the dunny out back," and wood
burning cookstove that also heated water. We did have water from the town system, didn't have to rely on a well, but I still thought it was very rustic. Nice to have the knowledge now about how things worked then.
posted by
Pat_B
on July 28, 2020 at 11:34 AM
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My hubby had that phone in his house. The six kids had to pay to use it.
After we moved from Delaware, I lived in Oregon and was raised with central heat & AC. We had a modern 70s phone, shag carpeting and a washer & dryer. My hubby was raised on coal heat, freezing Pennsylvania winters where his dad blocked the heat from going upstairs, and they washed their clothes on an old washboard. I guess it all goes on the generation and where you lived.
posted by
Sherri_G
on July 28, 2020 at 10:32 AM
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Windmill power is amazing. I love it!
posted by
Sherri_G
on July 28, 2020 at 10:28 AM
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