What random item found inside/outside your childhood home that isn’t found today?

[Kevin T]

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Wow, how old are some of you cats? Outside plumbing and ice on the inside of the windows, sounds almost like frontier living straight out of pioneer days.

My granddad was actually born in a log cabin with water fetched from a stream and he missed living in 3 centuries by a mere 15 hours. 5 years old when the first heavier than air flight took place, saw a man walk on the moon, yet never had a DL, never drove an automobile in more than a hundred years on planet earth.

[WX]

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Ours was 70 ft high, others were 120ft.

[cathouse willy]

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From the kitchen at home in the early 1950's

Juicer


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Jar opener

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[Gerarddm]

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#45: John, I have the first one in my shop. Inherited from my father.

[Beowolf]

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What random item found inside/outside your childhood home that most likely wouldn't be found in homes of today.

Corded phone and party line.

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This was the first thing to come to mind when I read the thread title. 1 ring for the neighbors, 2 rings for us.

[John Smith]

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Sheesh... this thread is making me feel old!!
I remember so many of the things posted.

Black and white TV and only able to get two channels.
Party line telephone.
Three on the tree manual transmission on the car.
No radio in the car.
Transistor radios.
Kool-Aid. God, we drank gallons and gallons of that stuff!
Every recreational boat was made from wood!!

Radios with tubes; Remember the "Car radio repaired while you wait" signs. Mostly it needed a new tube.

[John Smith]

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Our boat had an ice box, and we'd stop at the 'ice house' on the way and buy a large block.

[Robbie 2]

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Four bale walkthrough cowshed.
Hand cranked machines that would shuck the corn.
The machine next to that would grind the corn for cornflour.
Handcranked centrifuge to seperate the honey from the comb/frame.
Partyline phone: don't ever say anything on the phone you don't want the whole valley to know about.

[WI-Tom]

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We didn't have those in my childhood home, but there were built-in iceboxes in the duplex my wife and I lived in for 20 years before moving to Poland. We did not, however, use them for ice. They did make handy well-insulated cupboards.

Tom

[Breakaway]

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We had one with the TV, a turntable and am/ fm stereo receiver, the think was seven feet long and cranked out tunes super loud.

Kevin


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[birlinn]

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TVs did not exist when I was a kid in the 1940s.
Ration cards for just about everything; food, fuel, even clothing and furniture. Make do and mend was one of the slogans.
When was the last time anyone darned a sock?

[Nicholas Carey]

What random item found inside/outside your childhood home that isn’t found today?

TVs did not exist when I was a kid in the 1940s.
Ration cards for just about everything; food, fuel, even clothing and furniture. Make do and mend was one of the slogans.
When was the last time anyone darned a sock?

That's another one -- darning egg.

[Spin_Drift]

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6859299[/URL]]TVs did not exist when I was a kid in the 1940s.
Ration cards for just about everything; food, fuel, even clothing and furniture. Make do and mend was one of the slogans.
When was the last time anyone darned a sock?

I darned my friend’s wool socks while in Finland last summer.

[Spin_Drift]

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6859054[/URL]]Sears catalogues.
Plaid stamps
Encyclopedias
party lines

Sears catalog in a three seater outhouse at Grandpa’s farm. Pages torn and crumpled to wipe…

[Peerie Maa]

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That's another one -- darning egg.

Interesting, ours are mushroom shaped.
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I last used one to Swiss darn a hole in a gansy.