Diaper Services, Milk Boxes, and Other Bygone Things

Do you have any idea, Roberta, of the date associated with that photo?

ENIAC made its debut in 1946, so the photo must be from around that date. Maybe a year or two later.

Oh, yes, Dys. Many of us here are children of the folks who went though the Great Depression. Thrift was driven into us as a religious virtue.

I wasn't allowed to have Coke or Pepsi at home either, dys. What strange ideas these people had.

I too remember it as being 2 cents for each bottle you carried back to the store.

I remember working my way into being able to afford a fudgsicle, however you spell that, and the store owner, Mr. Sarkissian, mocking me, as my parents were rich. I was totally confused and, as was my way, totally shut down and stood back from my friends. Turns out there was another family with my last name who put $50.00, no small money then, or, to me, now, in the church basket each Sunday - and the parish listed contributors' names. Pah!!! I had no allowance until at least mid teens, and then it was a quarter. Bottles were golden..

a google search brought this response from another message board

Does anyone remember "Beep" orange drink? I used to dip my toast crusts into it.

perhaps it was like Tang,

djjd62...Thank you for the Beep thing. Did you know that Tang was cumbustible? I remember watching someone start a fire with Tang. At least I think I remember. It was, after all, the 1960's. I don't remember a lot about the 1960's.

Here is our old corner store, no longer, 50 years later, a corner store...

Someone did a nice job, osso, of preserving that corner store. and converting it to residential/commercial. As the street trees grow up, the small intrusion towards the street is going to be nice.

Speaking of Tang, orange in containers is a fairly recent development. If you wanted orange juice, you bought oranges and squeezed them.

I remember the building as white, and may have a photo of it so in, say, 1954. But maybe I'm confused. I think it's someone's studio, or such and such a foundation now. I saw it when we all met in Chicago and I spent my first day going around my old Evanston area.

When I was six, my mother would send me to the corner store with fifty cents. I was to buy a loaf of Wonder Bread and a pack of Chesterfield Kings.


Joe(I got to keep the change)Nation

Washtub with wringer:





Dryer:

I have only seen one of these things, that was owned by an old boyfriend. It was a wire recorder. Instead of tape, recordings were made on wire. Even in those days, when I first saw it, I thought that it was impossibly quaint.

http://www.videointerchange.com/wire_recorder1.htm

I friend got one of those recorders when I was at school: we thought it was cool just to knot the broken "tape" :wink:

(Roberta: we are still drying our washings on the rope :wink: )

Walter, Extra work for the person doing the laundry. But the fresh smell of things dried in the air is wonderful. Still remember it.

And if the weather turned chilly, the wash would be stiff, but it still smelled great!

We've drying rooms in the cellar (for winter and bad weather) .... and a (half-closed) roof terrace/balcony. :wink:

Small engines.

These engines were kerosene powered And I think refered to as oil engines.

My husband's first response was "wasn't it something like Tang?" So you may be on the right track dj. We both seem to recall that a bird (roadrunner?) figured on the label (which might explain the "beep").