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
>
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