I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember my grandfather using my grandmother's clothesline to process chickens on. I didn't understand as a 4 year old why he was draining there blood out the way he was but do now.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember visiting people with parents in N FL and S GA that lived in houses with no insulation in the walls and no inside wall at all. No paint on the outside either. Just weather worn rough cut lumber that was naturally gray. No indoor plumbing. No electricity. No phones. There was a deep well with a hand pump for buckets of water with gourd dippers in them on the back porch. Open buckets too. There was always a chicken house and an outhouse right near the back door and often a smokehouse with hams hanging in them. Simple lives without near the stress that some have now trying to keep up with the Jones's.

 

[R2elk]

I'm so old I remember visiting people with parents in N FL and S GA that lived in houses with no insulation in the walls and no inside wall at all. No paint on the outside either. Just weather worn rough cut lumber that was naturally gray. No indoor plumbing. No electricity. No phones. There was a deep well with a hand pump for buckets of water with gourd dippers in them on the back porch. Open buckets too. There was always a chicken house and an outhouse right near the back door and often a smokehouse with hams hanging in them. Simple lives without near the stress that some have now trying to keep up with the Jones's.

Back in the late 1960s, there were still people living in tar paper shacks in West Virginia. No insulation and the boards were covered on the outside with tar paper.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember the Chamber Pot in my grandparents bedroom. My grandmother was bed ridden with spinal arthritis.

 

[Nomadicus]

Back in the late 1960s, there still people living in tar paper shacks in West Virginia. No iinsulation and the boards were covered on the outside with tar paper.

I have a faint memory of seeing a shack like this but I was very young. Late 40's....

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember a homeless person trying to take a can of peaches out of a small town grocery store so he could eat. I remember they cost 25¢ and he didn't have that much so they took it away from him and he remained hungry until he found a meal somewhere else.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember the train that passed by my grandparents place in S. Central FL was a steam engine with a cowcatcher on the front.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember my grandparents church had no AC and they were furnished fans courtesy of the local funeral home. Sort of ironic to sit in church with a reminder of a final day on earth.

 

[jxp]

I'm so old I remember my grandparents church had no AC and they were furnished fans courtesy of the local funeral home. Sort of ironic to sit in church with a reminder of a final day on earth.

Something to look forward to... in that setting.

 

[jxp]

I'm so old I remember the train that passed by my grandparents place in S. Central FL was a steam engine with a cowcatcher on the front.

My grandfather used to work for the railroad. One fine summer day, my father and one of his brother got the idea to go to the paymaster and collect his pay. They then proceeded to ride the train from upstate NY to Chicago for the weekend. My dad was born in 1928 so this would've been some time around 1940. Boys will be boys.