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  1. FountainPenGirl

    Vintage lighting:

    I just thought I would jump in here. Lets not forget Kerosene lamps. Dad's folks didn't get electricity until 1939 and Ma's folks didn't get it until 1943 and that wasn't a sure thing. At Grandma's when I was a kid if one cloud went over the power went out so the Kerosene lamp was a normal part...
  2. FountainPenGirl

    Average Wages during the Golden Era?

    Hi, I thought I would chime in with some numbers. In 1960 Dad worked as a mechanic in a Pontiac Dealership and was making $60.00 a week That was considered good money around here. Ma and Dad bought a nice modest sized house for $8000.00 in the spring of '60. Our 1960 Pontiac Catalina retailed...
  3. FountainPenGirl

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I really think you got the idea here on this. This is what I've felt. Along with a reverence for God I include a little respect for themselves and others around them. It's not to show off for others, it's to do the best you can out of respect and a sense of descency.
  4. FountainPenGirl

    Johnny Depp in talks to Play The Thin Man

    I keep thinking this all comes back to that they are officially out of new ideas. Just looking today is the first I heard of this. I didn't read the whole thread but has anybody heard if they are going to do the remake in the '30's. I've been a "Thin Man" fan for many years and think the stories...
  5. FountainPenGirl

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    We all grew up on raw milk and loved it. Dad had a tin cup in the barn and liked the warm milk right from the cow. I liked to wait until it was cooled. Back then they got paid more for high butter fat in the milk.
  7. FountainPenGirl

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Around here the milkman and the glass bottles disappeared about 30 years ago. There are only a few of the old dairys left scattered around the state. We used to have a dairy/ malt shop/ soda fountain that bottled milk in glass bottles right there accross the alley from where I'm sitting right...
  8. FountainPenGirl

    Cooking in the Golden Era

    Hi, a good source of recipes is vintage cookbooks which there are plenty of floating around. A good book to have is the Betty Crocker cook book put out originally in 1950 and there were several printings after that. The earlier the better because they tell you to use things like lard and depend...
  9. FountainPenGirl

    Pajamas in public...

    :eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap
  10. FountainPenGirl

    Cooking in the Golden Era

    WIth the warm weather we've been having this is the first day since last fall that I didn't make a fire. I had to use the electric stove to make breakfast. Boy, does that feel strange. I remember the wood stoves at Grandma's very well. I guess that made quite an impression on me. We spent some...
  11. FountainPenGirl

    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    Truth is stranger than fiction What's interesting is there were performers in Country and Western music from the '30's thru the '50's with no more unusual names than the "Soggy Bottom Boys". Names like "The Trough Sloppers", "The Fruit Jar Drinkers", "Roy Acuff and his Crazy Tenneseeans"," Arky...
  13. FountainPenGirl

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    Saw that movie a number of times. It's very good. Of course it was done at the time.
  14. FountainPenGirl

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    Flappers The Flapper myth is one I've dealt with. I've explained to people that the "Flapper" look was something created by younger people mostly in their '20's in more heavily populated areas. Trends tend not to spread across rural America as fast. Sometimes delayed for years. People forget...
  15. FountainPenGirl

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    The title of this thread caught my eye. In talking with people I've found myself dispelling numerous myths and misconceptions of what really was. It's amazing how much there is in the expression "How soon we forget.". I am amazed at how little some people know about even recent history. I not...
  16. FountainPenGirl

    Home is where the Kitchen is

    Believe it or not, the stoves come apart and the two of us carried it in but they are not light.
  17. FountainPenGirl

    Kodachrome 1935-2010

    I've been using Kodachrome for years. I got the last of my exposed rolls in for processing that last week before the end. I still have a few unexposed rolls I didn't get time to shoot. It was the greatest film ever. It was like loosing an old friend.
  19. FountainPenGirl

    Show us your Washing Machines

    It's funny you should mention young people not knowing what they are. I have a 1931 Maytag aluminum square tub washer with the single cylinder gasoline engine on it. I was displaying it at our Steam & Gas Engine Club Show running with water, soap, suds and all. This was maybe about 15 years ago...
  20. FountainPenGirl

    Show us your Washing Machines

    Of course I grew up listening to an expression about getting another part of the anatomy caught in the wringer and it rhymes with it.
  21. FountainPenGirl

    Show us your Washing Machines

    Lizzie, You got me to thinking. Years back we happen to get the remains of a Maytag dealer that was in the business in the wringer era. This guy saved everything. If they junked a machine they kept anything that was useable including rollers. I have about 2 or three dozen used rollers in the...
  22. FountainPenGirl

    Cooking in the Golden Era

    Hi, I just happen start reading this thread. I thought I would jump in with a picture of my cookstove. Vintage recipies come into play here along with building fires to get fast heat, long slow heat, maintaining temperature, and so on. I use this stove for all cooking everyday all winter long...
  23. FountainPenGirl

    Home is where the Kitchen is

    Hi, I just thought I would bring this up again, This is our wood cookstove. It is my primary stove I use everyday all winter long. We keep it going all day and it helps heat the house.

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