coltle6920
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Okay, here are a few:
Coal-burning fireplaces.
Factory whistles and lots of church bells.
Running boards on cars, being used to ride on.
Stores with overhead wires on which little baskets buzzed around, carrying small items, change, etc. The fancy stores went to pneumatic tubes.
Hand-cranked cash registers.
Most buildings, especially the many that were built of stone, almost black with coal soot.
All records were 78 rpm, thick and brittle.
Peddlers and junk men driving horse- or mule-drawn wagons, each with his distinctive holler.
Grocery stores that delivered your order and allowed you to run a tab.
Pressing irons that had to be heated on a stove.
Hideous massed electric curlers needed to achieve the Marcel wave for ladies.
Stone spring houses that were always cool enough that people kept homemade buttermilk in them in summer.
Twice-a-day mail delivery. Often you could mail a card or letter to a local address in the morning and it would be delivered the same afternoon.
Lumber yards smelling of creosote used to treat railway ties and fence posts--unforgettable aroma.
Solid steel fishing rods.
General stores where you could buy a shotgun, a pair of boots, stove polish, overalls, groceries, kerosene, ammunition and pocketknives.
I could go on, but time travel is fatiguing.![]()
Did you by any chance have a blacksmith in your town? I would then concede that you are reeeally older than dirt!