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[Tony Page]

We were together a little over a year when we got married. Since we had both been previously married we didn't care much for vowing 'till death do us part' again because that obviously didn't go as planned. accidental double dipping

We were together a little over a year when we got married. Since we had both been previously married we didn't care much for vowing 'till death do us part' again because that obviously didn't go as planned. Great Stories!!!

 

[Shirley Martin]

The way I met my hubby.

I was on a date with a friend of his. We sometimes hung out at the "Grill". The boys would walk from car to car to talk. He was there without a date. He walked over to the car I was in and talked to us. He told me later that he said to himself, "I'm going to marry that girl." He showed up at my house the next day with the friend. Then the next day and the next day. I decided that the only way I was going to get rid of him was to marry him. And the rest is history.

 

[Tony Page]

My wife and I were recently talking about our first date. When my parents moved out of Brooklyn to Long Island our house was directly across the street from my wife's parent's house.

I was working on my car parked in the street and whatever I was doing I had just finished. I saw my future wife in the front yard of their house, and called her over. I told her I had to test ride the car and asked if she wanted to take a ride. She said yes.

While riding around, I asked her if she had a newspaper she responded, at home I do. I asked her if she wanted to go look up a movie she liked and we'll go tonight to see it. She said yes.
I remember checking the weather forecast because it had been hot and sticky, the weather was going to be hotter that night but no rain in the forecast.
She picked Bye Bye Birdie as the movie we would go see. my car was a 1949 Dodge, I parked the car, and I left the driver side window open because of the Heat expected. Halfway through the movie I remember hearing Thunder and thinking oh sh--, I left my car window open. Walking back to the car the rain had stopped it was just a quick burst, I made her jump because I grabbed her hand and I said I'll pick the movie next time. We laughed. When we reach the car I found my seat soaking wet but I didn't care I took a handkerchief out and put it down on the seat, it was all I had at the time.

That night taught me at least three things one don't believe the weather forecast, two do not let my wife/ girlfriend pick the movies, three keep your car windows closed.

I was sure a second date was not in my future, luckily I was wrong.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

I was at Debonair Dance land, and about to leave when a guy in a cowboy hat came by and ask me to dance.
I did, it was nice. I decided to stay a bit longer. I watched as he approached other females to dance. Bent to their level as they sat, his hat removed, with hands behind his back. Same as when her asked me.Wow don't see that every day.
Anyway he asked me again, and for the rest of the evening, he never asked another to dance.
Let's just say it was a long week end for us both.Things blossomed and a year later he proposed at the same dance place.
Unknowing by me, family and friends were watching the whole thing,seated after back from the dance floor.
August 31st, will be 35 years!

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I found this picture in a box of old photos. It's the original farmhouse from my grandparent's place in south Georgia. I believe it was built in the early 1900's with no indoor plumbing, no closets, and no electricity. Sometime in the 1940's, my grandparents built a new house (with proper plumbing, electricity, and closets!) and everyone called this "the Old House". It was used for storage and filled with everything from garden tools and farm chemicals to discarded furniture, boxes of old clothes and shoes, grandma's canning supplies and shelves of canned foods, etc. My cousins and I spent many a summer day playing in and around this old place.

I can see that when this picture was made, the front porch has been demolished, I suppose to allow my grandfather to park that MF tractor and farm equipment where the porch used to be. I wish this photo was better quality. The Old House was completely torn down by 1980.

 

[Tony Page]

I found this picture in a box of old photos. It's the original farmhouse from my grandparent's place in south Georgia. I believe it was built in the early 1900's with no indoor plumbing, no closets, and no electricity. Sometime in the 1940's, my grandparents built a new house (with proper plumbing, electricity, and closets!) and everyone called this "the Old House". It was used for storage and filled with everything from garden tools and farm chemicals to discarded furniture, boxes of old clothes and shoes, grandma's canning supplies and shelves of canned foods, etc. My cousins and I spent many a summer day playing in and around this old place.

I can see that when this picture was made, the front porch has been demolished, I suppose to allow my grandfather to park that MF tractor and farm equipment where the porch used to be. I wish this photo was better quality. The Old House was completely torn down by 1980.


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Interesting and just wonderful I'm glad you posted this.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

Interesting and just wonderful I'm glad you posted this.

Tony, you might remember that I posted this photo of my father in the late 1940's on the old SOC. (I think we discussed the lethal-looking powersaw!). In the background is the rear of the Old House, showing the kitchen door. It was already uninhabited by that time.

 

[Tony Page]

Tony, you might remember that I posted this photo of my father in the late 1940's on the old SOC. (I think we discussed the lethal-looking powersaw!). In the background is the rear of the Old House, showing the kitchen door. It was already uninhabited by that time.

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I vagly remember, these vintage sepia-toned photographs are priceless. That's some saw!!!

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I vagly remember, these vintage sepia-toned photographs are priceless. That's some saw!!!

I wish the photos were better quality, but I'm lucky to have them at all.

 

[John Brunner]

I found this picture in a box of old photos. It's the original farmhouse from my grandparent's place in south Georgia. I believe it was built in the early 1900's with no indoor plumbing, no closets, and no electricity. Sometime in the 1940's, my grandparents built a new house (with proper plumbing, electricity, and closets!) and everyone called this "the Old House". It was used for storage and filled with everything from garden tools and farm chemicals to discarded furniture, boxes of old clothes and shoes, grandma's canning supplies and shelves of canned foods, etc. My cousins and I spent many a summer day playing in and around this old place.

I can see that when this picture was made, the front porch has been demolished, I suppose to allow my grandfather to park that MF tractor and farm equipment where the porch used to be. I wish this photo was better quality. The Old House was completely torn down by 1980.


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It's crazy that people were grateful for any structure that kept the wind off of their backs and the rain/snow off of their heads. One of my neighbors lives in the house they grew up in (I think they moved there from a place that burned down) and they were hauling water from the spring before they had a well dug. They were born in 1953, so they got well water in the mid 60s. Dunno when the septic system was installed.

When I was a kid I visited a neighbor's family place out in the Virginia countryside and they had just gotten water plumbed into the kitchen, and were still using an outhouse. This was around 1966.

And people these days wet their pants if the internet slows down or they got shorted a McNugget.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

It's crazy that people were grateful for any structure that kept the wind off of their backs and the rain/snow off of their heads. One of my neighbors lives in the house they grew up in (I think they moved there from a place that burned down) and they were hauling water from the spring before they had a well dug. They were born in 1953, so they got well water in the mid 60s. Dunno when the septic system was installed.

When I was a kid I visited a neighbor's family place out in the Virginia countryside and they had just gotten water plumbed into the kitchen, and were still using an outhouse. This was around 1966.

And people these days wet their pants if the internet slows down or they got shorted a McNugget.

This old house did have a water well with one of those manual pumps; it was only about 15' from the back door so grandma didn't have to haul water very far.



There was also an outhouse but thankfully that was before my time. The house was heated by a fireplace and a huge old wood-burning stove.

 

[Faye Fox]

I bet your dad never said, "Step aside y'all, I am coming thru." I had hand pumps, both shallow well and deep well at my mountain cabin. Those were the days. That Massey looks like a late 1950s model. Great tractors. Very cool old cabin that reminds me of one that an old couple lived in close to my great aunt in East Texas. I still don't understand why it didn't fall down. How they survived in that shack until they died in their 90's, is unbelievable. They had no electricity and so no fans for summer and just wood heat for winter.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I bet your dad never said, "Step aside y'all, I am coming thru." I had hand pumps, both shallow well and deep well at my mountain cabin. Those were the days. That Massey looks like a late 1950s model. Great tractors. Very cool old cabin that reminds me of one that an old couple lived in close to my great aunt in East Texas. I still don't understand why it didn't fall down. How they survived in that shack until they died in their 90's, is unbelievable. They had no electricity and so no fans for summer and just wood heat for winter.

That picture of the Old House was made sometime in the 1970s so there's no telling how old that MF was at the time. I wish I had a picture of the old red Farmall tractor that they had when I was a kid. I don't know what ever happened to that tractor, but it was really cool looking. My dad's last tractor was a John Deere, but that was during the 1980s and until he died in 1996.

 

[John Brunner]

This old house did have a water well with one of those manual pumps; it was only about 15' from the back door so grandma didn't have to haul water very far.

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There was also an outhouse but thankfully that was before my time. The house was heated by a fireplace and a huge old wood-burning stove.

When I moved here, I found a similar pump that gets installed on your drilled well and is an integral part of the system. There is no spout, it supplants the electric pump and pressurizes the system in your house. So you can use it to fill the pressure tank, or you can leave a faucet open and fill the sink (or jugs) with water during a power outage. I contacted the company that makes them and never heard back and never followed up.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

When I moved here, I found a similar pump that gets installed on your drilled well and is an integral part of the system. There is no spout, it supplants the electric pump and pressurizes the system in your house. So you can use it to fill the pressure tank, or you can leave a faucet open and fill the sink (or jugs) with water during a power outage. I contacted the company that makes them and never heard back and never followed up.

As far as I know, that pump was the only way to get water besides lowering a bucket. There was no electric pump there at all.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Tony, you might remember that I posted this photo of my father in the late 1940's on the old SOC. (I think we discussed the lethal-looking powersaw!). In the background is the rear of the Old House, showing the kitchen door. It was already uninhabited by that time.

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I keep wanting to build an overhang like that for my barnhouse door. Going out the door onto the concrete slab steps with a cane takes some doing and when it is raining is when I want it.
I bought a sand point long ago to put in a sort of well but the land is clay here. Don't think it will work on the farm. Maybe at hubby's house. There is a hydrant off the southeast corner of the barnhouse. Could just run a hose to the sink. Not sure how they had it when the original family lived there. It is easier to carry a bucket.

 

[John Brunner]

I keep wanting to build an overhang like that for my barnhouse door. Going out the door onto the concrete slab steps with a cane takes some doing and when it is raining is when I want it.

When I had my garage built, the contractor told me I would want to add a lean to. He was right. But the line from my well to the house runs right through there so I can't just go sinking posts.

 

[Krystal Shay]

Those are great pictures, Beth!

I think I may have say this before somewhere. The house I grew up in for the first 10 years of my life did not have running water, or an indoor bathroom. We had a covered porch with a cistern and water pump to pump up the water for drinking, cooking, bathing, etc. We had an outhouse.

We took a bath in one of those big round galvanized metal tubs. My mother would heat water on the stove and fill the tub for bathing. We had a big galvanized bucket that we kept filled with water. It had a big dipper or ladle for dipping out a drink of water. We didn’t have a phone either. It was a very nice big old farm house without all that.

My dad finally put in a full bathroom in the house and running water. I thought we were uptown then! Over the years, I have learned a lot of people my age have never experienced growing up in a house without indoor plumbing, or a phone. They looked at me like I must have been a hillbilly growing up.

I do NOT like using an outhouse, nor having running water for bathing, cooking, drinking, etc. And….I always try to send up a big “THANK YOU” to the Universe for indoor plumbing every now and then.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

Those are great pictures, Beth!

I think I may have say this before somewhere. The house I grew up in for the first 10 years of my life did not have running water, or an indoor bathroom. We had a covered porch with a cistern and water pump to pump up the water for drinking, cooking, bathing, etc. We had an outhouse.

We took a bath in one of those big round galvanized metal tubs. My mother would heat water on the stove and fill the tub for bathing. We had a big galvanized bucket that we kept filled with water. It had a big dipper or ladle for dipping out a drink of water. We didn’t have a phone either. It was a very nice big old farm house without all that.

My dad finally put in a full bathroom in the house and running water. I thought we were uptown then! Over the years, I have learned a lot of people my age have never experienced growing up in a house without indoor plumbing, or a phone. They looked at me like I must have been a hillbilly growing up.

I do NOT like using an outhouse, nor having running water for bathing, cooking, drinking, etc. And….I always try to send up a big “THANK YOU” to the Universe for indoor plumbing every now and then.

My dad grew up in the Old House in the picture. He had one brother and my grandparents; that house has 2 bedrooms, an open living area with a fireplace, and the kitchen on the back. The farm road in front was dirt up until the mid 70's when it was finally paved. The floors in the house were just wooden planks and the walls were mostly bead board, but they did have glass windows!

I remember my grandmother used to sit several evenings a week and write pages of letters to her sisters and family. When we moved to Texas, I would get letters from my grandma because long distance phone calls were an unheard of luxury. Also, my grandmother was deaf due to having scarlet fever when she was young, so she couldn't use a phone anyway. I still have a few of her letters; she had beautiful handwriting.

 

[Krystal Shay]

We forget sometimes how lucky we are to have the luxuries we do have. Like @John Brunner said, most of our parents and grandparents and the folks of the time were grateful just to have a roof over their head. A drafty old house was better than nothing to help keep the elements out and a place to sleep.