Latest junk store finds!!!

[norgeway]

Rena Ware

I have never found much Rena Ware around here, but have found TONS of Towne Craft,Saladmaster,Presto Pride,Kitchen Kraft and also tons of vintage aluminum..Wear Ever and the like.

 

[autowasherfreak]

Nice finds, first time I've ever seen a square cast iron skillet. Gorgeous Sunbeam!

 

[fltcoils]

I shiver when the Ruskin Heights Tornado is mentioned

Fordtech

Was that the Ruskin Heights tornado, May 20 1957? I heard about it many times from a family who lived there then. The mother hurried and had just got the kids/toddlers and baby in arms and down the stairs to the basement. Then the tornado hit. As she descended the stairs shereached to close the stair door... but the door and house were gone. It was that close.

Here's an excerpt from the memorial page...
"...Shortly after Dad arrived on the scene, Reverend Collier came up to him and laid his arm on Dad’s shoulder. "All of them were in the basement when the storm hit and everyone survived. Maxine took the children to a house where they would be cared for and bedded down for the night." Relieved to learn that we were alive and in a safe place, Dad plunged his gratitude into the task of helping others in distress. He worked well into the night and finally caught up with us long past our bedtime. "

The story I heard about the stair door was Jennie Collier's, it was she (Rev Collier's wife) who had just got the kids down the stairs in time.

http://ruskinheightstornado.arctecowl.com/Where Were YOU.htm

 

[fordtech]

YES! RUSKIN HEIGHTS TORNADO!

fltcoils, Yes! That was the one. We lived in Martin City. My parents knew the people who were killed in the car that was smashed into the water tower. Our home was completely leveled and like the story you mention, my mother saw the funnel cloud and Dad and her grabbed up the 4 of us and just made it into the crawl space under the house. We had no basement, just a crawl space. We got some cuts and scratches out of it but thank the Lord we all came through it. I have seen a lot of photos my Dad took. The floor of the house was all that remained. He said most of the house was out in the street. Some of his stuff was found in Ruskin Heights which was over 5 miles from Martin City. They said the kids were always all over the neighborhood on most days, but by some miracle all of us were in the house together on May 20 1957 at that given moment.

Here is one picture my Dad took of what was left

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