David, It could be that the Taylor's had a coal burning furnace. When I was a
kid my aunt had one. Every Saturday in the fall, winter and early spring, I
had to shovel out the ashes and haul them back to the alley to be taken away.
And those ashes were heavy. Wanna know what I got for that each week? A
quarter. But she would usually throw in a baloney sandwich and a small bottle
of coke to go with it. In the summer time, for that same quarter, sandwich and
coke, I got to mow her yard with her mower. It was one of those modern ones
without an engine. I provided all the power.
You know though. I wouldn't trade those times at her house for anything. She
was my favorite aunt. She was 18 years older than my dad and had been widowed
in her 40's. Her daughters were grown and out of town. She spent a lot of
time with my sister and I. We had about 6 or 7 drive-in movies in town and in
the summer she would pick us up on a Friday evening with a grocery bag full of
freshly popped popcorn amd a metal scotch cooler full of cokes and we would go
to the drive-in. We saw every Elvis Presley and Doris Day-Rock Hudson movie
ever made. She used to go camping with our family and she would usually take
care of all the cooking. I'll never forget the time she forgot her cast iron
skillet. Being a very ingenious person, she took the coal shovel she had
brought along for emergencies (the same one I used), washed it out, covered it
in aluminum foil and fried potatoes over the fire. I don't think there was
anything in this world
that that 5 '01" woman couldn't do.
Those were great times.
Harry in Salem, VA
"go down to the Grand and watch them change the marquee".
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