[or-roots] Huh? 60 years ago

[E V Barnes]

To Walt:

We hit San Francisco in mid '35 and lo they still had horse
drawn water vehicles with horse drawn street sweepers.
The trucks on the embarcadero were all chain driven w/
hard rubber tires.  I can still see the old Mac truck that
delivered wood to my grandparents out on SE 68th. 
That was time when the Iceman was a man with leather
to protect him, and large tongs to haul 25-50 lb cubes.
My grandmother was the first on the block to get and
electric refrigerator about 1934.

My parents had a summer cabin in Northern CA. and it
had a 1928-29 GE frig with one ice tray.  And it really
froze things.  The also had a wood stove and a cylindrical
gas heater about the size of a car muffler.  You opened 
the front cast door and lit it with a match.  Very hot 
water in just a few minutes.  Noisy tin shower.

Gene
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: DAVIESW739 at aol.com 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 8:00 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Huh? 60 years ago


  In a message dated 9/4/2005 4:31:24 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, evbarnes at earthlink.net writes:
    Dear Walt:

    Thanks
  No problem living out in the country as we did i never new what deliered milk was till I saw it on TV. I learned a lot from TV in those early 50 I learned that the local well diggers were called Laurel and hardy in the films and that you got milk from a grocery store or delivery man I wonder where they got it from. We fed all our extra to the hogs so it didn't come from us.  

  Walt Davies
  Cooper Hollow Farm
  Monmouth, OR 97361
  503 623-0460 
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