[or-roots] Huh? 60 years ago

[Dorothy Wogh]

How many went to the Journal Junior Shows - half put on by children performing and the other silent movie where the children could scream as loud as they wanted when the picture and music got exciting?

The vaudiville shows at the theaters in downtown Portland.   First talk show?

Dorothy Wogh
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: E V Barnes 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 12:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Huh? 60 years ago


  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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