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Originally Posted by Crowbob
What about those sorta spherical little black cans filled with kerosene with a wick sticking out the top that the cops lit at night to use as traffic cones and lane dividers.
Clothes wringer/washer.
Round push button light switches attached to a rocker for on/off. There were lots of houses fitted with them when they became electrified using aluminum wire wrapped in cloth.
Rich people in big houses had intercoms consisting of a tube with a funnel on the ends.
Coal chutes on houses.
Toilets with a chain to open a valve on an overhead reservoir.
I‘ve actually operated every one of the above that were in everyday use at Grampa’s house. It’s weird being the same age as old people.
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The little window in the basement wall through which the coal was delivered.
Horse drawn fruit wagon though that didn't last much past my very early years.
After Sunday mass I went to the bakery for bread, my brother went to the butcher for meat both within two blocks of home.