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ITT My parents had an ITT fridge in Norway in the early 90's. They were fairly common for a while there - never took off in Sweden as I recall.

FLW houses are notoriously hard to heat - he was intransigent about insulation, double-glazing, etc and insisted he knew best (read, for instance, "The Natural House" where he says stuff like that*). While radiant heat is great when engineered correctly, he often didn't engineer it properly and...

My mom's great-aunts or second cousins (can't remember which, I think cousins is right) were the operators in a small town in east central Nebraska. The switchboard was in their living room. This would have been in the 30's-50's period. I think the last time my mom visited them would've been in...

Do... people actually refrigerate peanut butter?

Convector GusHerb - oversized replacement convector. Original buried in the wall. I currently have NO radiators in my unit (anymore, removed the last one). Heating is all concealed steam convectors except in bathrooms where it is convective chase with large diameter steam riser and return. It's...

My fireplace provides no real heat (which is good with steam heat) and has excellent draw as I'm about halfway up my building, but it does provide great atmosphere on dreary days and at parties.

Just drove by there, huge empty lots... Had the building hung on a few years it would have been ripe for loftversion. Wait, I think I'm thinking of something actually in Chicago. Forgotten Chicago has some interesting programs for those in the area.

I wonder if the waste water treatment plant was surprised to I wonder if the waste water treatment plant was surprised to find a wrapped up doo-doo. I would think not - I have a friend who is a civil engineer and works for MWRD (M-Weird locally), our Metropolitan Water Reclamation District -...

I have a good friend who lives in St. Pete and he always says that only tourists wear shorts and swim outside in December/January in the Tampa area. 70 is predicted for tomorrow and then snow on Friday - fun times (it will be for me!).

I get a huge number of channels on my rabbit ears (not even the "digital" kind but just the old black ones from before "conversion") - in excellent clarity too, I might add - despite not facing the Sears tower. Well, RAI made up for lack of color with spectaculars! Europe's campiest TV by a...

>>The light bulb in the freezer section burned out, had to screw in a new one.<< Ohmigod, you have to trash it, that fridge is way too old to change the light-bulb in!

I replaced my ancient top freezer, what was it, Westinghouse I think, fridge which was dying with a top freezer Frigidaire, mainly because I was very limited in what I could actually get into my apartment based on elevator size and very narrow (and I mean narrow) door clearances - I had to...

My parents used to get suet free at Jewel. And yes, it's the same stuff that you feed birds (that why they got it).

I live in a vintage building and my doors are narrower than standard and some fridges will simply not fit through, even with doors (both on the fridge and the house doors) removed. Your son may need to take doors off, remove door stops etc. I have an OkM and they got that in, so it's certainly...

They are rare around here - OkM wasn't common in Chicago. Not my style either (so glad I have a MCM model).

Thanks for the replies, answers and responses. It's not of the digital age, that's for sure. I suspect it was put in by whoever had the garage before him which I have no idea would be when (our garages are rented and don't go with the unit, so I have no idea who put it in - I don't have an...

I have a question for the expert experts here: will garage door universal replacement remotes work for an old Sears opener? I have been tasked with helping a less than "ept" (I suppose that would be apt? From inept...)or handy neighbor find one to replace a lost remote. I have to check the model...

What do you mean remember when you had rabbit ears on top of the tv - I still do! I lived in Norway in the 80s when there was one channel that broadcast from about 4/5 PM until around midnight. There was some daytime programming, but there would be large, long breaks. Sweden was so hoity with...

I, of course, meant SIMPLY Ming....

Ha! Or they paid to hide them with Jailbird Martha? Hee hee