Oh my grandma had some of those! Betsy At 05:42 AM 2/24/2009, you wrote: >Lee, > >Not all of us are your age. >smiling >----- Original Message ----- >From: Lee A. Stone >To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:34 >Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] door nob question > >some of you in your travels must have seen old locks like in one of my >first houses the locks were I think like a 4 inch or maybe 3 inch >square block. and If I remember correctly there was a little piece of >metal stuck up so you could flip it from lock to unlock and that >actualy took a skeleton key. then there were the door locks per se >which was simply a flat piece of metal that lay in a grove until the >outer handle was turned.. the later one was on my first house which had >double doors and at the bottom of one door was a place where you >fliped up a metal piece thus allowing two or both doors to swing wide >open. and that door had the old fashioned hand crank or turn knob on >the outside which when turned would knock anyone out of bed. Lee > >-- >Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves. >Are you curious? Visit my web site: ><http://www.sedac.mailsent.net>http://www.sedac.mailsent.net > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
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