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Pat
Those hanging lights are back in style now! This post you shared with us painted such vivid pictures for me. I had no idea so recently that electricity was unreliable. Thank you.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on November 5, 2018 at 1:53 PM
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I always find it fascinating to what contractors do work. It's amazing what people can do.
My generation takes for granted having everything available, something that did not always happen in wartime.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 5, 2018 at 11:23 AM
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I remember some quite fashionable houses built near Oxford.
,The back kitchen had a flat roof which held a large tank for rainwater. Of course in those
days rain water was preferred by some for washing.
I expect those houses have been revamped and probably
are too expensive for most.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 5, 2018 at 9:25 AM
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Re: TAPS
Out in the Pacific Northwest we didn't burn coal, since forests and sawmills were all around. But I remember the Watkins man, the Fuller Brush man. Took a lot of motivation for those hardy souls to show up in a village 20 miles from nowhere.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 5, 2018 at 7:03 AM
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Everything in that last paragraph is familiar to me from those years of the 1940's. No difference of anything except for city water. We had a coal furnace in the basement. We had a coal man, an ice man, a milkman, a paperman, a Watkins man, a Manor man, and an ice cream man. We had no car but rode the city bus everywhere. What memories I have.
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TAPS.
on November 5, 2018 at 5:56 AM
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