Ruth Rocker wrote:
> Linda I think slate pencils were actually soapstone. They're not
called that any longer, but are available for quilters to use to mark on
dark fabrics.
How intriguing - thank you.
> Studebaker was an American car. You can find tons of photos online by
searching for the name. They always looked like upside down bathtubs to
me <LOL>.
You're right - I found these marvellous old advertisements:-
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://oldcarandtruckads.com/Studebaker/1947_Studebaker01_Ad.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php%3Fp%3D4119906&usg=__vGg9iy1eW3Arz949MlL07DeljpI=&h=500&w=349&sz=44&hl=en&start=20&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=lChFwoq9mGzCOM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=91&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Studebaker%2B%2522%2B%2522Studebaker%2B%2522%26start%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1
(But whatever the manufacturer - all the cars look like bathtubs!)
> I remember almost all of the original list and I'm only 52. I
remember grandma having a wringer washer and getting my fingers caught
in the wringer. My great grandmother had a treadle sewing machine and,
you guessed, I got my fingers caught in the wheel there, too.
Me too, me too . . . my mother had both eventually: how you bring it
all back. We must have been born with unladylike curiosity. I remember
fusing the household electricity by unscrewing a light switch.
> [snip] All of these stories, while not exactly what I lived through,
have convinced me that my childhood was more pleasant than that of my
own children and definitely more relaxing that what my grandchildren
will live through.
I certainly don't envy today's children their noisy classrooms and busy,
stressful lives, although I sometimes wish for their opportunities.
Linda Walton.
> Linda Walton wrote:
>> Slate pencils, anyone?
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