Although I don't like "trivia" I think some of the old technology was not the least bit trivial. It was basic to daily life. Some of that technology still remains, but I'm not sure where. I think you can get an old fashioned egg beater on Amazon for about $20 now.
LAUNDRY CHUTE. Those of us in one-story houses no longer have a laundry chute. We have to lug plastic baskets to the washer. But we saw one in the film Home Alone and it brought back memories. I used to send all my stuffed animals down to the basement until one got stuck in the shaft. Then all the housework piled up until you got it out.
THE ICE MAN. My grandmother used to put a sign in her apartment window that said "Ice." A gloved man soon arrived, with a leather pad on his shoulder and a big cake of ice in his tongs. He wrestled it into the top of her ice box, which looked like today's refrigerator on the outside. But inside where the freezer would be, was the space to fit the block of ice.
THE MILK MAN, HORSE-DRAWN VANS. In Cleveland during the 1940s we had daily fresh milk delivery, brought by a milkman who walked up the driveway and placed the bottle(s) in a milk chute on the back porch. He drove a half-van, with a horse where the vehicle's engine would be. The horse would start walking before he even got back down the driveway; the horse knew where to go next.
EGG BEATER. Did we just use it to beat eggs? I think we made whipped cream, and milk shakes, and maybe home-made mayonnaise or meringue pies.
CURB FEELERS. Do I have to explain curb feelers? I think you had to have a pretty big car. We didn't need them on the Nash Metropolitan...
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LAUNDRY CHUTE. Those of us in one-story houses no longer have a laundry chute. We have to lug plastic baskets to the washer. But we saw one in the film Home Alone and it brought back memories. I used to send all my stuffed animals down to the basement until one got stuck in the shaft. Then all the housework piled up until you got it out.
THE ICE MAN. My grandmother used to put a sign in her apartment window that said "Ice." A gloved man soon arrived, with a leather pad on his shoulder and a big cake of ice in his tongs. He wrestled it into the top of her ice box, which looked like today's refrigerator on the outside. But inside where the freezer would be, was the space to fit the block of ice.
THE MILK MAN, HORSE-DRAWN VANS. In Cleveland during the 1940s we had daily fresh milk delivery, brought by a milkman who walked up the driveway and placed the bottle(s) in a milk chute on the back porch. He drove a half-van, with a horse where the vehicle's engine would be. The horse would start walking before he even got back down the driveway; the horse knew where to go next.
EGG BEATER. Did we just use it to beat eggs? I think we made whipped cream, and milk shakes, and maybe home-made mayonnaise or meringue pies.
CURB FEELERS. Do I have to explain curb feelers? I think you had to have a pretty big car. We didn't need them on the Nash Metropolitan...
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