[sweetliberty]

I remember those stoppers that were used in a coke bottle to sprinkle clothes. When I was little, milk was delivered to the door in glass bottles and still had the cream on the top. Nanny (my greatgrandma) liked the cream for her coffee. Every month we were visited by the Jewel T(?) man who brought various kinds of special goodies. We had an icebox. Vegetables came from the garden, ours or someone else's in the neighborhood, because everyone shared their crops. Meat was a rarity, except for ham and turkey on special occasions, fish every now and then and barbecue at one of the local barbecue places. I was probably a teenager, or close to it, before I knew what a hamburger or a steak was. The yard was full of nut and fruit trees and my greatgrandma was known for being able to cook apples 100 different ways. Perhaps that was a bit of local legned. There was always a bowl of fresh pecans or walnuts sitting about, with a nutcracker, for snacking. A typical summer evening involved sitting in the shade and shelling butterbeans for supper, or occsionally peas, or snapping beans and shucking corn. Sweets and coke were special treats that were for once in awhile.

I am getting nostalgic. I think I am also showing my age.

[Borax Queen]

Wow, that is very interesting. I had never heard about those stoppers before. Since we grew up right in the heart of a city, we could walk half a block to the butcher, baker, laundry, cobbler, seafood market, magazine store, etc. Each was a separate specialty shop. When my grandfather visited, he'd fish for fresh eel in the Eel River in Northern CA, or buy us fresh lobster. I do get nostalgic when my dad takes me down that street (like he did in July) and it's all Starbucks and GAP and chain stuff like that. Even the old Woolworth is gone. I think we've talked about that before...

[Conservababe]

I remember my grandmother's chevy. Even when it was new, it smelled old and musty for some reason. And she did not smoke cigarettes, either. My grandmother was always fussing at folks who smoked, but she dipped her snuff without any guilt. LOL

[.38sw]

I remember those stoppers for sprinkling clothes before ironing. My mom had one. I don't remember milk deliveries, because we lived a little ways out of town and had our own cows. As far as I can remember, we always had a refrigerator. We always had meat, because we had chickens, and cows, as I mentioned. My dad would butcher a steer periodically, and we had a deep freeze to keep the meat. He was also an avid fisherman, so we often had trout and crappies, sometimes bass.