Posted on 12/31/2006 7:08:41 PM PST by Mo1
I was there in the 70s, and it was getting a little tense then, knowing the end was coming, but the trade and industry were enormous. When psychologists try to explain American Urban problems by some theory whereby poverty justifies conduct, I am quick to remember Hong Kong. The psychologists are still quite ineffective with their theories.
No when this building was build in 1928 they only had pantry kitchens and 30 amps per united.
They provide switchboard, kitchen & valet cleaners service in the basement. Tenants would order food or get their wardrobe clean.
It was originally a design for professional musicians where they taught.
You did excellent on your video family album thanks for sharging.
dinner sounds Yummy!
I agree,poverty is not the cause. When I first came to Spain in in 1963, when Spain was very poor because of the unofficial boycott against Franco. I saw some of the poorest areas in the city but the children were always clean and well dressed and the washing on the clothes lines was spotless.
I remember remarking at the time that in poor areas of other countries one is saddened by the dirt and squalor not impressed by the cleanliness and joy of the children.
With the Chinese and Asians you see the same thing it is called self-respect.
Right you are, yet how easy it is to blame the other.
My wife was raised among the poorest of the poor in Mexico, yet the mother insisted on order, cleanliness, and religion. You are never so poor you can not have these three.
Oh I agree completely.
When in Mexico..I was amazed at how in the small Pilapas (grass roofed houses) the dirt floors were always swept clean..the wash on the line stark white, the kids always dressed in usually blue and white, crisp and clean. No washing machines, not even wooden floors in their houses..just Hammacas hanging wall to wall where they slept. They had chickens running hither and yon, veggies in the yard, somewhere a well or small Cenote to get water. They lived so primitive but even the most far reached villages usually had some way to make their English understood.
They were happy good people, a lot of them living on some deep jungle road. One thing I can say, the families were usually small. I wonder if that helped in the control of their lives? These were Mayans in the Yucatan tho..and they very much at that time anyway wanted to be annexed to part of the US like Puerto Rico.
They would have made a fine addition. I feel bad that it never was allowed.
I remember the tiny colliery row houses in the coal mining areas. The was coal dust everywhere making everything filthy but the font step of each little house was scrubbed clean.
You just knew that the inside would have the same care as that step.
See Doggie, it does make a difference. It is pride in family no matter where or how you live. In some it is passed down, in others...well I guess society gives them an easy out to forget all they were taught.
Omgoodness...and they were never updated electrical-wise? Wow..you must be some darned good cook to make the meals you've mentioned with those conditions. Good for you.
I'm glad you liked my Vid. Unless I can tief some somewhere, I'm getting pretty low on resouces..lol.
Sighhh...
On Fridays the gates of the mine were surrounded by women waiting to take the pay envelope from their men before they could take it to the bar.
In those days 20s/30s very few collieries had pit head baths, so the men would come home to their tiny row homes which dated from the early 1800s, where their woman folk had heated the water for them to bathe in a tin bath in front of the fire in the parlor.
All the iron work was shining with black lead, as was the highly polished brass work on the oven doors that flanked the fire reflecting the flames. A nightly ritual for the whole family.
You do what you have to do. Lucky is the child who is raised by a stern father and mother.
Can anyone see this with the URL? It's the same as the other one I posted today, but for some it may work better....whatever....Not you Nully..only Big Macs for you.;)
http://www.mediamax.com/grannie_9/Hosted/Some%20of%20my%20Life.wmv
Works for me but then everything works of me ;)
Of course they may may not get it as I bet most of the people on DD are not current with their electic bill.
Oh Hello there, Car-dith-a. I don't know if I believe that or not..lol.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaad Cardy..lol.
The little girl in the back row, who's real name is Cardhu? ;)
Oh...sorraaaay...thought it was a Halloween party...8^/
Resty, here's the link to the Hungarian Goulash I made the other night. Sooo simple, but very good. ;) Easy for you to cook in your utensils. Had it with smashed pots and peas tonight and it was delish. The stew beef comes out so tender and the gravy is great.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1827,158160-239206,00.html
The one with the yellow shirt is Resty... she would not take part in these childish games.
Oh, the only thing I changed was the water...(I use chicken stock for water in all recipes, no matter what, well not cakes..lol) and I use constarch instead of flour.
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