Middle Aged Memories

My dad was a "Mr. Fix It," so he had a bit of the "sheeny man" in him too.  He'd see something broken, set out as garbage, and take it home to fix it.  Only he would get into phases.  I remember one where he was all about fans, box fans, standing fans, rotating fans.  He had quite the collection. 

The coolest thing to come thru' my old neighborhood was the vegetable truck, the classic kind with little awnings coming out of the side.  When I was very little, we had a home delivery milkman; our house had a milk chute too.

I feel deprived. We only had the ice cream man. I lived in a house in Ft. Worth built 1940s - darn it no milk door. Actually GM lived in one built 1920s and no milk door. Did the kitchen have to be on the front for that?

DM and stepdad were in the antique/estate sale business. Can't tell you how much stuff they picked up off the curb and he repaired. I found just out front a small pet carrier. I cringed when I opened it - catch was very closed well - and nothing in it. Added it to my collection.

When we moved, about 1958 or so, I remember 3 milk men from different companies coming down our lane, all yelling. I got her! I got her!

I grew up in a house build at the turn of the century - the previous one.  We had a milk door around the back of the house up an alley that actually looked like a regular cupboard inside the kitchen.  The interior of the cupboard was screen so the Northern California temperatures could keep the milk cool.  One of the upstairs bedrooms had a laundry chute that slid right down to the laundry room - where we had a Maytag wringer washer and two built in tubs on the wall - one for rinse & one for bluing.  Anyone else remember bluing?  There was a "door" in the wall that opened for an ironing board to come down - sort of like a 'murphy bed' - with a separate board for sleeves.

Remember the Avon lady walking the neighborhood carrying this?

We got Stanley Home Cleaner from a door-to-door salesman.  Best grease cutter I ever used.

Me neither, I think that I would have remembered him!

I agree Meece!

Spookiesmom, now that's going really far back! We lived in the snow weather and I remember him coming out, occasionally when really sick.

Phyllis Diller

Yeah, they look at you funny if you say pop.



What part of Midwest? I'm from Cincy.



Spookie is from Panama City. They about ma'mam'ed me to death when I got her.

Go-go boots and white lipstick. . They SO went with dresses where the hem was shorter than the arms.

Really I'm by Clearwater now.



How about orange lipstick and matching nail polish?

I remember seeing those!

I never saw those before. Look like a broken bone waiting to happen.