Chubbo
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It looks like there might be a rip snort'in storm brewing here in Central Ohio. If we make it through the storm, and the night, Viola (Hezzy), and I, will celebrate our 70th wedding anniversary, Saturday 5/27/2021.
Our friends and relatives predicted that our marriage would last 6 months. We fooled them; it’s been 840 months.
I thought that our lifestyles in the 1950s, might interest some youngsters, on this forum. Shortly after our marriage, we rented a 2 room, summer kitchen, and a 1 hole outhouse, to set up housekeeping. Nether had indoor plumbing, and all water had to be hand pumped and carried inside from an outside well. Summer kitchens were used to do most of the cooking, in wood fired ranges. It kept the heat out of the main farmhouse. We rented this meager abode, for the extravagant sum of $8.00 per month. That building measured approximately 15 x 20 ft. and had linoleum covered floors. We furnished it with used, appliances, and furniture, a Kitchen table, and 4 chairs, a bottle gas kitchen range, a living room chair, a bedroom chair, a few of Mom’s hand wove rag rugs, curtains, and bed linens, a door mat, and an Ice Box, that held a 25lb., block of ice, that needed replenishing every other day. I hauled that 25lb., block of ice wrapped in newspaper, on the front bumper brace, of our 1936 Ford. We purchased a used Simmons Hide A Bed Sofa, to complete our furnishings, the rest we borrowed, from friends, and family. That 1936 Ford, and the Hide A Bed Sofa, and our clothing, were our only possessions.
Hezzy & Cgubbo
Our friends and relatives predicted that our marriage would last 6 months. We fooled them; it’s been 840 months.
I thought that our lifestyles in the 1950s, might interest some youngsters, on this forum. Shortly after our marriage, we rented a 2 room, summer kitchen, and a 1 hole outhouse, to set up housekeeping. Nether had indoor plumbing, and all water had to be hand pumped and carried inside from an outside well. Summer kitchens were used to do most of the cooking, in wood fired ranges. It kept the heat out of the main farmhouse. We rented this meager abode, for the extravagant sum of $8.00 per month. That building measured approximately 15 x 20 ft. and had linoleum covered floors. We furnished it with used, appliances, and furniture, a Kitchen table, and 4 chairs, a bottle gas kitchen range, a living room chair, a bedroom chair, a few of Mom’s hand wove rag rugs, curtains, and bed linens, a door mat, and an Ice Box, that held a 25lb., block of ice, that needed replenishing every other day. I hauled that 25lb., block of ice wrapped in newspaper, on the front bumper brace, of our 1936 Ford. We purchased a used Simmons Hide A Bed Sofa, to complete our furnishings, the rest we borrowed, from friends, and family. That 1936 Ford, and the Hide A Bed Sofa, and our clothing, were our only possessions.
Hezzy & Cgubbo
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