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Me too. Was he the guy that told the story of a relative during the depression that bought a mail order home. When it came every body rushed to the train station to see it, unpacked it, and the wind blew the assembly instructions away?

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One scene that stands out follows: One of the Parker's neighbors orders an entire house by mail from Sears. It arrives in railroad boxcars on a siding in town. All the fathers go down with the premise of helping unload the house kit from the cars. The beer starts to flow and it becomes a drunken ballet of opening hundreds of crates of house parts. Then it begins to rain and the hapless home buyer is abandoned by his inebriated friends.

There are youtube channels that have a good deal of the episodes, thinning out in the earlier years.