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WOW, $350.00 in 1923 for a Victrola was a helluva lot of do-ray-me! You could buy a Ford Model T for about $550.00 . When I was a teenager the woman that was like a second mother to me had an RCA Victor Victrola almost identical to the one in the ad along with a couple of 78 albums of Enrico...

All’s well that ends well! Often times persistence pays off. Good for you for not giving up. Eddie

In 1973 I bought a Whirlpool Convertible portable washer very similar to yours along with the matching dryer. In ‘76 it stopped spinning and I had about a month or two left on the warranty. The Whirlpool dealer came and picked it up and repaired it. The problem was the clutch had failed. It...

Maybe the replacement bulb wasn’t good? Did you try one of the working bulbs in the socket that had the burnt out bulb in it? It’s a shame to lose that nice chandelier. But the new simple fixture is nice too. We used to have one like your new one in our dining room and I replaced it with a...

Hi Matt, Boy, you said it about inflation! When I first moved out on my own in 1970 I earned $50.00 a week, plus some meager tips that amounted to $10-$15 per week. My take home pay was $39.90 per week and my rent was $65.00 per mo including utilities and I had a $54.00 per mo car payment...

Matt, I got my first telephone in 1971 too, a year after I left my parents home. It cost $10.00 for the installation and $5.85 per mo for a two party line. I can only recall once where the other party was using the line when I wanted to make a call. After about a year I was able to afford a...

Tim, When my family moved to the North Coast of Sonoma County in 1963 our phone number was Russian Gulch #3 and our ring was 1 long and 1 short and there were 4 other homes on our party line. Once in 1969 I needed to make a call to where I worked in the evening. Every time I picked up the...

We’ve had the same telephone number since 1987, originally a landline, then about 10 years ago we ported it to VOIP. It’s the number we use for everything. We do both have cellphones for emergencies and to receive text msgs and we carry our cellphones with use when we are away from home either...

During the summer our thermostat is off most of the time. We don’t have AC, the heat is electric and our home is all electric. During the first 2 weeks of June I had to put the heat on for about an hour or two downstairs on a few of the colder mornings. We have fans in every room to keep the...

Back in the olden days when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and I left my parents home at the age of 19 in ‘70 I couldn’t afford a telephone for the first year on my own. So I used telephone booths to call home once a week, 45 cents for the first three mins. I always used the phone booths at...

If you’ve ever been in the home of a long time heavy smoker that they’ve lived in for many years you’ll notice that everything is covered with the patina of exhaled tobacco smoke which contains both tar and nicotine. The walls will have a deep yellow-brownish tinge and so will the window...

My grandma used to make homemade soap in the 50’s and early 60’s when I was a kid. She used cooking fat and grease that she’d saved, rendered it down, strained out the impurities and mixed it with lye. Then she would pour it into shallow pans lined with wax paper and allow the soap to cool and...

I remember my Mom using Pride liquid furniture wax very well. It smelled like gasoline to me. Eddie

Mariposa, My very first washing machine was a Maytag model J that I bought at the Salvation Army Thrift Store in ‘72 for $35.00. It had a pump and I used to use it in the bathroom which had a ball and claw bathtub in which I would wring the washed laundry into and used a broom handle to swirl...

I had an RCA 45 record changer/player like this one without the carrying case when I was in 7th and 8th grade. It had belonged to my grandpa originally. At Christmas time he used to play Christmas records on it that went through a speaker that was over the front door. Once on Christmas Eve a...

I’ll bet she did too! Eddie

No it’s not just you Launderess, I’ve noticed this too. Also lots of member names that I don’t recognize that have been members for years according to their profiles? Eddie

I agree with parunner58 about using Bon Ami powder, they also make a liquid formula of Bon Ami. If any of those stains are due to burned on grease a razor blade can be effective in scraping it off too. The secret to keeping a ceramic top stove clean is to wipe it of thoroughly EVERY time you...

When I was a telephone operator in the mid to late 70’s I worked as a Toll operator for the last year there. We each worked a 8 pair cord switchboard and we occasionally got “Mobile Calls” from people on car phones like in the ad. I remember once an older operator next to me telling the...

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