[Vaschon Island]
Posted on 02/01/2021 4:43:53 PM PST by Daffynition
My how times have changed in our households. Modern appliances and other inventions have afforded us conveniences that our predecessors didn’t have. Don’t you sometimes wonder what things were like a century or two ago?
Explore the past by looking at these vintage wares and try to figure out what they were used for. Some of these objects were more common during certain historical periods, or in particular parts of the world. Though they all share the same status of being antiques, you may find one or two of these items still in use.
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The Singer Featherweight sewing machine, a great design that worked and worked. Singer produced millions of them from the 1930s through the 1960s. They’re still considered essential equipment by some quilters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Featherweight
[Vaschon Island]
And man could she cook with it.....cornbread in a skillet ....white cornbread....not that yellow cake stuff
My maternal great grandma who I stayed with on occasion when wee......she used an enamel wood stove and cooked hell out of it....no power , well water, outhouse
Six room shotgun house on stilts....Smith county Mississippi
Fireplace in most rooms.....well out front ....tin roof collector that gathered in cistern on back porch.....it was like camping out....with oil lamps at night and the cacophony of frogs and crickets ....
YES! I still have my moms....she was quite the seamstress. But it needs to be rewired.
All you had to do was keep that machine oiled. It was a beast!
I love the old things. They remind me of Grandma’s house and some happy times.
What a beautiful woman. And a neat outfit she was wearing.
My Grandma was a fantastic cook and made everything by hand.
She had a meat grinder like that. My job was to turn the crank when she was making sausage.
She even made all her own noodles by hand. She would roll out the dough on a huge cloth, cut them by hand, hang them on hangers and dried them out in the spare room/back porch. She would store them in Quaker Oat boxes.
I still use some of her recipes. Her cranberry pineapple jello is still our family’s Thanksgiving tradition.
Yep! Used it as a kid.
Hanging from the ceiling
Yep. I always spend some time trying to figure out what some of the items are. My mother had a picture of me in a baby blue metal stroller when I was one. The local CB has one just like it it hanging above the restaurant entrance.
Instead of kindergarten, my mother taught me how to sew. Wayyy better than kindergarten.
Proof that
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My wife asked me tonight why I need so many cutting boards. She complains that she has to wash them by hand, but I didn't marry her for her cooking;)
no but I used one for six years at work
We love old stuff too. So much character! Most of the kitchen gadgets work much better than new modern counterparts. We have a toaster and a waffle iron that are from the 50’s or maybe 60’s that are great.
Our most recent purchase was a desk with tons of cubbyholes. I just cleaned the old locks on it. Most recent patent on them says June 16, 1885. The drawer bottoms say “September 1884”, but I think those were written in replacement wood. No matter. The locks are really cool and after some lubrication, work quite well. We are thinking it may have been a reception desk in a hotel or train station, in part because of the cubbyholes, and because both sides are decorative.
It is a marker for measuring out lengths on a curve. I made one years ago for use in a steel shop.
I’ve got several of his books!
Customers bring in neat items with personal significance to loved ones both living and deceased. It's fascinating to see how the items were built and why they were built that way.
We have a plastic fan. I think my wife had it when we got married 33 years ago. We run it 24/7 in the basement for at least the last ten years.
Ah yes, I used to be able to lick the goodies off the blades.
If I was Extra Good, she would turn it off before I started...
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