And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
All kitchens looked something like this when I was a kid
The cookie jar atop the fridge reminds me of the Howdy Doody cookie jar my Mom kept atop the washing machine that occupied one wall in our kitchen. The cereal box's RaISIN BRaN typeface seems to indicate photo dates from late-1906s or early-to-mid 1970s.
I had one that I got from my folks’ house when I moved out in 1980 and kept it until about 1996 when I moved from northern VA to SoCal. I gave it to a needy family. If they were smart they could have put it on EBay 10 years later for a tidy sum.
I have my grandparents Chromecraft table and chairs in the shed. It sat in the kitchen in the old farmhouse that's now long gone. Those fridges were a death trap for kids back then. Once that lever shut you were locked in. And the clock on the wall had to be plugged in so the cord always hung from the clock to the floor.
We had a table and chairs like that for my whole childhood. My youngest sister ended getting the set to furnish her first post-college apartment in Chattanooga. She came home from work one day to find the four apartment block in which she lived burned to the ground. I believe it was a wiring issue in one of the other apartments. Sad she lost the table, glad she wasn’t harmed.
My parents had a table like that one, but it had a blood-stained dent on one side...from me trying to run underneath it one sunday morning....fyi, i was an inch too tall do to so.
If i guessed 1960, it would be close.
ReplyDeleteGettin old aint for sissies.
ReplyDeleteThose where the good old days. I wish I could go back.
ReplyDeleteIt looks comfortable.
ReplyDelete3 meals per day planned, prepared and consumed, household center for planning, straegy and chit-chat. Evening homework and classroom.
ReplyDeleteWe might be related.
ReplyDeleteThe cookie jar atop the fridge reminds me of the Howdy Doody cookie jar my Mom kept atop the washing machine that occupied one wall in our kitchen. The cereal box's RaISIN BRaN typeface seems to indicate photo dates from late-1906s or early-to-mid 1970s.
ReplyDeleteAnd ALL the food was good!!
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I remember those well.
ReplyDeleteWould love to find a kitchen table like that one pictured
ReplyDeleteI had one that I got from my folks’ house when I moved out in 1980 and kept it until about 1996 when I moved from northern VA to SoCal. I gave it to a needy family. If they were smart they could have put it on EBay 10 years later for a tidy sum.
DeleteI have my grandparents Chromecraft table and chairs in the shed. It sat in the kitchen in the old farmhouse that's now long gone. Those fridges were a death trap for kids back then. Once that lever shut you were locked in. And the clock on the wall had to be plugged in so the cord always hung from the clock to the floor.
DeleteThat is a solid "pull" handle, not the locking type. No pivot mount at the top.
DeleteWe had a table and chairs like that for my whole childhood. My youngest sister ended getting the set to furnish her first post-college apartment in Chattanooga. She came home from work one day to find the four apartment block in which she lived burned to the ground. I believe it was a wiring issue in one of the other apartments. Sad she lost the table, glad she wasn’t harmed.
ReplyDeleteMy parents had a table like that one, but it had a blood-stained dent on one side...from me trying to run underneath it one sunday morning....fyi, i was an inch too tall do to so.
ReplyDeleteFormica and linoleum.
ReplyDeleteBack in a time when most houses had a separate formal dining room In addition to the kitchen table.
ReplyDeleteBack then you couldn't change the door swing of the refrigerator.
ReplyDeleteSimple, Clean and no electronics!
ReplyDeleteDo the countertops have that aqua & blue boomerang outline design?
ReplyDeleteIt lives on in my garage as storage.
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