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That, or Heywood Wakefield rattan, which my Aunt Doris had several pieces of.

I never lived in a house with a coal furnace, but a few of my neighbors did. They all had coal bins in their basements, with a small metal door that opened out to the driveway. The delivery truck would place its chute into the opening and fill the bin. By the time I remember, the furnaces were...

This company merged with Eureka in the mid 1940s to become the Eureka-Williams Co. I remember my mom's old vacuum cleaner from the early 1950s having that on the info plate underneath. The instruction book also mentioned the Oil-O-Matic heat.

You might want to try Grease Relief, which I have used, or perhaps Permatex Fast Orange Grease-X detergent, though I've not tried it. It's made for Mechanic's clothes, so would probably work well.

I've never seen one like that before. The attachments look like the ones from the Royal 1940s hot-dog style vacuum that the lady that was our sitter when my sister and I were kids had as her upstairs machine.

Our family friend Glenna C. owned a Constellation when I was a little kid, and I always wanted to see it. I thought it looked like the planet Saturn. Hers was blue and gray. I have a miniature Constellation that is a tape measure, it's tan and about 1.5" tall. Just got it last Summer at our...

I live about 25 minutes NE of downtown Milford, and about 35-40 minutes from Blue Ash. Downtown Cincinnati takes about 50 minutes, going on Columbia Parkway.

I'm not convinced that the wire shown is actually aluminum - it may or may not be. Based on the apparent age of the cable, it's very possible that the conductors are tinned copper. This was common in the 1950s and earlier when rubber was used as wire insulation (to prevent corrosion). The...

It's more in the Milford -Loveland area. The large window and front door position are the main things that are alike. The chimney is on the left side, and only one lower window on right front, though I think that may have been changed at some time. It's not in a subdivision, but along the highway.

There's a house about 15 minutes from here that looks a great deal like the one shown. I know nothing about it, other than it's been there as long as I can remember, which means prior to the late 1950s.

My former neighbors Ann and Russell built their new house in 1985, and equipped the kitchen with Jenn-Air ovens and cooktop, and a SubZero refrigerator. Their previous residence kitchen was installed in 1964, with GE wall ovens, cooktop, and bottom freezer refrigerator. I remember Ann saying...

Sometime in the early to mid 1980s I had a Nova 4-door, in Medium Green Metallic. I don't remember if it was a 1977 or 78, nor why I got rid of it.

Having worked in market research many years ago, I know how those things are conducted. The client sets parameters of who they want interviewed, such as age, sex, income, location, etc. One of the problems I noticed back at that time (early 1980s), was that most of the participants were suburban...

Vacerator (sorry, don't know your name) I don't know what age you are, but you may be around for a good while longer. In my block, I have four neighbors over the age of 90 - three women and one man -, and two of those are over 95. They all still reside in their own homes. One of my good friends...

In 1962, Whirlpool closed the range factory in Hamilton, OH. They had purchased it from RCA in 1955, which included the right to use the RCA trademark for a certain number of years. They did not open their own plant to manufacture ranges for several more years, so in 1964 they would have been...