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Do You Remember This?
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saptech
Android Expert
I've used a few when growing up and we would visit relatives down South! I'm sure glad those days are over...
i have relatives in PA (not amish) that had these till around late 1990'S, no running water or electricity. and used coal for heat and cooking, with a coal shute to the basement where they delivered it to.
chrlswltrs
Extreme Android User
Amazing thinking I am only 31, and the technology we have today, yet I still remember most of the things on this thread....
Now that looks just like the Xilinhot Bus Station toilet/washrooms.
I just spent a holiday in a grasslands village staying with friends, it's just like that there. They have electricity sometimes when they need it, which comes from a generator and the water comes from a well. Coal, wood or dried sheep manure for cooking and heatng in the winter.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
are you goofing?
MacFett
Android Expert
Growing up we had one of those (and an outdoor shower made from wooden pallets and rubber mats from a printing press) until I was in middle school (late 80s).
Morse code machine/telegraph
We didn't have a phone until I was in 4th or 5th grade, before that we had an intercom between our house and my uncles (1/8th of a mile away) and used Morse code on it.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
i never had an outhouse but family in pa did. and never had cable till 2000's when i moved to fla. got my first cell in 2009 and was born in the 60's.
the telegraph, i thought i'd put up for fun and my neighbors in ct had party lines.
MacFett
Android Expert
My parents still don't have cable, they just got dial up earlier this year.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
sometimes i wish i never had all this technology? but then on another note i like it.
saptech
Android Expert
I feel that way at times also. It seems like you end up leaving home with too much stuff to carry!
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
Washboards and Fels Naphtha soap worked pretty well.
cwhatever
Life Goes On
they are still everywhere, just not for the washing purpose anymore.
saptech
Android Expert
Black Oak Arkansas with Jim Dandy playing the washboard...this was then.
this is what we use them for today!!!
Oddly enough, I had one of these hanging in the kitchen as a child. No.. I'm old but not that old. My father loved antiques and wired one of his purchases into the bell system. You could not make a call on it but you could answer a call.
Our real phone looked very similar to this model and it set on a shelf in the hall. You had to stand there to talk.