Thinking about older days
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Topic: Thinking about older days
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Subject: Thinking about older days
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2020 at 4:36pm
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Got the news my old pals wife passed away on Tuesday. She made it to 107. He passes away in 1985. We liked to get together with his neighbor and I listened to them talk about their younger days. His neighbor went to work for AE dairy when he got out of highschool. He had a milk delievery route in Des Moines. In 1934 when it was so hot and dry here he said he had orders to leave the milk inside a porch if they had one. During those years people had no money and they would go around and steal the milk. He delievered early in the morning and he said "I started rattling the milk bottles at the curb.". Even so he said I saw a lot of necked gals run for the door. It was so hot, no air cond and they were sleeping on the screened in porch. And They talked about going to the eastern part of the state and buying Al Capones whisky when it came into the college town. And many other things .
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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2020 at 11:11am
Remember going down to grandparents farm and the refrigerator wasn't in the kitchen it was instead the cistern just off the back steps that had a trap door in the cover and a rope and bucket that things were kept in that needed to be kept cool
Then there was the refrigeration system for the canned milk - the concrete trough in milk house with the trickle of water running into it and drain out the side running out into a stock tank for the cows .
But then can remember dad saying he would make breakfast in the morning so that night he filled a pot with corn meal and water so it could soak overnight and ready to cook in the AM . That would be after the wood stove was lit off and would be hot which took some time also . But the sourer cream container by stove also needed to be moved so it didn't heat up .
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