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<blockquote data-quote="504RP" data-source="post: 1683445" data-attributes="member: 40335"><p>I don't guess I can go way far back as to how to things use to be since I was born in 1961 but can relate to the movie Waltons mountain sort of.</p><p></p><p>Up until I was maybe 8 years old we didn't have indoor plumbing. Even though we lived in a small town that sprung up because of coal mining.</p><p></p><p>So we had three dug wells that we got our water from. Would heat water on the stove for bath water, remember keeping a pale of water on the kitchen counter for drinking water.</p><p></p><p>Did have natural gas to heat the house and to cook with. But nobody in the town of 400 or so people had indoor plumbing, no city water. Everybody had out house's. Did have electricity but nobody had a telephone of any kind back then. All the streets except for the highway was dirt. No street signs of any kind. No street lights.</p><p></p><p>We had a total of maybe 2 acres for gardening which about every home place had back then. We kept chickens, and hogs that we butchered every winter. We got most of our food from the garden and animals we butchered. Hunted deer as scareious as they were back then. Hunted rabbits, squirrels, quail, fished.</p><p></p><p>I remember an old man with a plow horse and sled that would go around to alot of home places and turn over people's garden spots. He would load his plow on the sled and move it from one home place to the next to keep from tearing up the old dirt city streets.</p><p></p><p>My Mother and sisters done alot of canning. I remember alot of the women making quilts sitting around the kitchen table using quilting frames from the ceiling. Back then when you bought feed from the feed store the feed sacks were made from cloth. My Mother made us kids ( 7 of us ) alot of clothes from thoes old feed sacks.</p><p></p><p>She done the washing in what they called a wringer washing machine and scrub board. Hand the clothes on a clothes line to dry.</p><p></p><p>She told me right after i was born that when she would pick cotton she would put me on the cotton sack and drag me along as she would go through the field picking cotton.</p><p></p><p>We had a black and white TV that on a good day if we were lucky we could tune in 2 maybe 3 channels to watch.</p><p></p><p>I think I was 7 or 8 years old when i watched the first man walk on the moon on that old TV, they had an old news man named Walter Conkright or something like that telling the whole story as it was happening live on TV that day.</p><p></p><p>I remember it was cold in the winter and hot in the summer in that old house we lived in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="504RP, post: 1683445, member: 40335"] I don't guess I can go way far back as to how to things use to be since I was born in 1961 but can relate to the movie Waltons mountain sort of. Up until I was maybe 8 years old we didn't have indoor plumbing. Even though we lived in a small town that sprung up because of coal mining. So we had three dug wells that we got our water from. Would heat water on the stove for bath water, remember keeping a pale of water on the kitchen counter for drinking water. Did have natural gas to heat the house and to cook with. But nobody in the town of 400 or so people had indoor plumbing, no city water. Everybody had out house's. Did have electricity but nobody had a telephone of any kind back then. All the streets except for the highway was dirt. No street signs of any kind. No street lights. We had a total of maybe 2 acres for gardening which about every home place had back then. We kept chickens, and hogs that we butchered every winter. We got most of our food from the garden and animals we butchered. Hunted deer as scareious as they were back then. Hunted rabbits, squirrels, quail, fished. I remember an old man with a plow horse and sled that would go around to alot of home places and turn over people's garden spots. He would load his plow on the sled and move it from one home place to the next to keep from tearing up the old dirt city streets. My Mother and sisters done alot of canning. I remember alot of the women making quilts sitting around the kitchen table using quilting frames from the ceiling. Back then when you bought feed from the feed store the feed sacks were made from cloth. My Mother made us kids ( 7 of us ) alot of clothes from thoes old feed sacks. She done the washing in what they called a wringer washing machine and scrub board. Hand the clothes on a clothes line to dry. She told me right after i was born that when she would pick cotton she would put me on the cotton sack and drag me along as she would go through the field picking cotton. We had a black and white TV that on a good day if we were lucky we could tune in 2 maybe 3 channels to watch. I think I was 7 or 8 years old when i watched the first man walk on the moon on that old TV, they had an old news man named Walter Conkright or something like that telling the whole story as it was happening live on TV that day. I remember it was cold in the winter and hot in the summer in that old house we lived in. [/QUOTE]
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