Are you this old?

[Gem99ultra]

I grew up on my grand parents farm. Learned at a young age that you never had an ailment when you were staying at her house. Her remedy for anything from a common cold to appendicitis was Black Draught, affectionately known as "liver medicine". I never figured out what it had to do with the liver. Just the fact that you knew it was in the medicine cabinet was enough to cure anything that was wrong with you.

I had a closer relationship with Black Draught 'tea', but just as horrible. Mom made us dose down with that stuff every year just before school started back up in September. That stuff tasted so bad that you'd just about die before you admitted you were ill. As most people describe it - It would gag a horse! And after getting your dose, you best stay close to the toilet!

 

[LD48750]

Grandparents didn't have the crank phone. They had the old rotary phone though.

That thing took some patience to use. It never failed. I used to get halfway through dialing a number, and someone would interrupt me and I would lose track of which number I was on.

First phone I remember hung on the kitchen wall & didn't have a crank or dial.
You picked it up and told the operator who you wanted.

 

[Ledgemere Farm]

Are you old enough to remember the connection?

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Unfortunately, yes

 

[Moxie 15]

we;;, I am 60, but I remember having a wringer washer, a wood cookstove in the kitchen, taken bathes in a round tub on the kitchen floor with water heated on the wood stove

 

[Bird]

Yep, we had wringer washing machine that stayed on the back porch, was rolled into the kitchen to do the laundry. Three stools (made by my pateranl grandfather) set around the washing machine, so clothes could be taken from the washer, run through the wringer into the first and then into second rinse tub, and then some into the third "bluing" tub. And yep, we sure bathed in one of those same round wash tubs in the middle of the kitchen. But I guess we were ahead of you, Moxie; we had a genuine Butane cookstove from the time I was big enough to remember.

Remember when homes for sale or rent used to be advertised as so many rooms and baths, as "4 rooms and a bath". Well, my parents said we had 5 rooms and a path. The outhouse was probably 150 feet from the house.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Aaah to be a youngster like you guys. Just one more month and I'll be 82.

I must be the elder on the block; I'll be 84.

 

[orezok]

When I was a kid in the early 50’s we lived in a house that my dad built. We has inside flushing toilets that went to a pit that was dug in the back yard. I remember my brothers digging it. Probably 6’ in diameter and 1o’ deep. No lining, just a hole. We also had an out house that was probably used during construction. As my dad was in construction, it was the proverbial brick ***** house. Yup, brick.

Several years later sewer came to our street and the outhouse was abandoned. I think my dad knew that city sewer was imminent so the temp pit. He stubbed the sewer lateral out of the foundation for the future hookup.

 

[k0ua]

we;;, I am 60, but I remember having a wringer washer, a wood cookstove in the kitchen, taken bathes in a round tub on the kitchen floor with water heated on the wood stove

Yep, all of that was my early life too.
In fact this 1956 photo of me will help prove it.

 

[LD48750]

Yep, all of that was my early life too.
In fact this 1956 photo of me will help prove it.

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Don't think you would like to see a 1956 picture of me naked in that little tub.

 

[Molalla1]

I must be the elder on the block; I'll be 84.

Yep, you must be! (I'll be 79 next month).