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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Here's somethin I ran across, while looking for somethin else today. Kinda funny, it's the same Grandad that's in the photo contest this week.

After movin to California.....they didnt stay long, they then moved outside of Portales NM...where they had an auction and sold off all their belongings, before movin back to his Birth state of Oklahoma. I've got both Auction notices, but the one from Portales NM in 1923 is really dark.

This one is from Stilwell, Oklahoma when they were movin to Texas. (Guess Grandma just couldn't live anywhere else LOL)

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Jassy

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That is cool...though they didn't have alot of things..what they had I'm sure was very important to them...quite a few animals though...Thanks
 

kolanuraven

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WOW...they had an elec washing machine!!!! Big doings back then!!!


I remember when my G-ma FINALLY got rid of that ol' wringer washer she had when I was about 11...so that would'da been 1972!!!!!


I hate that blasted thing...was so glad to see Poppa take it apart and use the tub for a drinker for the milk cow!!!!


Things like that are fun to read.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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kolanuraven said:
WOW...they had an elec washing machine!!!! Big doings back then!!!


I remember when my G-ma FINALLY got rid of that ol' wringer washer she had when I was about 11...so that would'da been 1972!!!!!


I hate that blasted thing...was so glad to see Poppa take it apart and use the tub for a drinker for the milk cow!!!!


Things like that are fun to read.

I have one uncle out of that family.......after the seven girls they had they had one boy. He lives in Louisiana now, and to this day still uses one of them old ringer type washin machines. We went to see them here while back, and when we pulled up he was doin clothes....funny thing tho. He don't rinse the clothes in the tub and wring them out again. He hangs them on the line and squirts them with the waterhose :? Talk about some itchy towels!!!!!!
 

Clarencen

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1937, That is about the time that my mother got her first washing machine. It was a gas twin cylinder Maytag. It was not the earlier pop-pop-pop model.
She put it in the basement as there was not room enough in the house. Dad had made a pipe thing to run the exhaust up and outside. Although it was well sealed still the basement became smoky. Today I often wonder that she didn't become ill from the carbon monoxide.

One of my younger brothers didn't like the sound of the wash machine, so even if it was very cold he would put on his cap and coat, then go out and set on a haystack and watch the calves eat their hay until the washing was done.
 

kolanuraven

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
kolanuraven said:
WOW...they had an elec washing machine!!!! Big doings back then!!!


I remember when my G-ma FINALLY got rid of that ol' wringer washer she had when I was about 11...so that would'da been 1972!!!!!


I hate that blasted thing...was so glad to see Poppa take it apart and use the tub for a drinker for the milk cow!!!!


Things like that are fun to read.

I have one uncle out of that family.......after the seven girls they had they had one boy. He lives in Louisiana now, and to this day still uses one of them old ringer type washin machines. We went to see them here while back, and when we pulled up he was doin clothes....funny thing tho. He don't rinse the clothes in the tub and wring them out again. He hangs them on the line and squirts them with the waterhose :? Talk about some itchy towels!!!!!!



Most folks today don't even know what a clothes line IS...let alone actually have one!!!!
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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kolanuraven said:
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
kolanuraven said:
WOW...they had an elec washing machine!!!! Big doings back then!!!


I remember when my G-ma FINALLY got rid of that ol' wringer washer she had when I was about 11...so that would'da been 1972!!!!!


I hate that blasted thing...was so glad to see Poppa take it apart and use the tub for a drinker for the milk cow!!!!


Things like that are fun to read.

I have one uncle out of that family.......after the seven girls they had they had one boy. He lives in Louisiana now, and to this day still uses one of them old ringer type washin machines. We went to see them here while back, and when we pulled up he was doin clothes....funny thing tho. He don't rinse the clothes in the tub and wring them out again. He hangs them on the line and squirts them with the waterhose :? Talk about some itchy towels!!!!!!



Most folks today don't even know what a clothes line IS...let alone actually have one!!!!

LOL or the meaning of "gettin clothes lined"
 

kolanuraven

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
kolanuraven said:
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
I have one uncle out of that family.......after the seven girls they had they had one boy. He lives in Louisiana now, and to this day still uses one of them old ringer type washin machines. We went to see them here while back, and when we pulled up he was doin clothes....funny thing tho. He don't rinse the clothes in the tub and wring them out again. He hangs them on the line and squirts them with the waterhose :? Talk about some itchy towels!!!!!!



Most folks today don't even know what a clothes line IS...let alone actually have one!!!!

LOL or the meaning of "gettin clothes lined"





Been there...done that once or twice!!! Get to runnin' and playin' and forget about where the line was....as they were always saggy anyway...then WHAM!!! :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Yeap ......usually happened while playin hide n go seek. On your way to home base.........end up flat on your back in the yard, lookin up at the sky.....wonderin....what happened??? LOL
 

tta stockdogs

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When I was a little fella, my Mom was washing and wringing clothes and me a watchin. She must of had the tension cranked way down on the rollers... well.. I stuck my hand in them and popped my arm open like a squashed tomato-still got a scar from that lesson on washin clothes :D
 

mrj

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My grandma got a 32 volt electric (windmill power) maybe in the 1920's, (things were more prosperous then than in th '30s on the Calhoon ranch) and it still was in use in the 1950's when my family moved to the ranch. It was in a very cold porch. I think we took laundry to town to grandma's house in winter at the time. Kids would climb into the machine and stand on the dasher to get a 'carnival ride'.......bit no no......and earned lots of extra chores.........when caught! I don't think anyone ever got hurt doing it, tho. The wringer was pretty painful, but don't believe anyone in our family was seriously injured, tho there were some painful ones.......and plenty of tales about serious injuries to other people in the area.

We got REA in 1954, but my mother didn't get a really good washer (or running water and indoor plumbing) until well into the '60's due to financial setbacks from the serious illness and death of my sister from '53 untill '55. They did have a propane refrigerator that was a real blessing, when the only alternative was harvesting ice in winter and TRYING to keep the food cool with it in summer.

The Good Old Days???? I like our modern conveniences, thank you!

mrj
 
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