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Post by jb on Jul 4, 2013 10:04:26 GMT -5
Will be 62 later this year, but relate to many of the stories about values! I'm always in awe when I read how clothes were washed and had to be ironed way back when. It was all hard work!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lots of PRIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by cbk on Jul 4, 2013 12:12:35 GMT -5
j.b. my children ( who aren't any spring chickens themselves 43-49) didn't have the slightest idea that spray starch is a rather recent invention. How did people starch clothes in your day, Mom? They thought the answer was positively archaic. LOL
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Post by nancy on Jul 4, 2013 18:30:03 GMT -5
A wonderful black lady ironed for us for a long time when I had young kids. She insisted that clothes had to be startched with 'cooked starch'...if they didn't suit her she took them home with her and brought them back all starched and ironed. Our oldest son who will soon be 60 still talks about how she ironed his jeans and NO one else has ever done them as well.
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Post by cbk on Jul 5, 2013 9:56:26 GMT -5
Nancy, those were the Black folks who truly deserved the equality that MLK fought for. Doubt that you could find that kind of pride in work in very many homes in the Black communities today.
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Post by jerrycsmith on Jul 5, 2013 18:23:44 GMT -5
I was pulling for those people myself, Chris. But I sorta got disenchanted when I saw where the whole mess was going, how it was getting there, and what it would eventually do to me and my home town.
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Post by nancy on Jul 5, 2013 18:30:44 GMT -5
There is a pretty long story about this black lady. She was raised by my grandmother from the time she was a young child. Her daughter, also a nice person, told me she sang and played the piano on her 100th birthday and told how my own mother taught her how to play. She really was a part of my family for many years.
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Post by H Abiff on Jul 5, 2013 23:00:00 GMT -5
Was her name Dallas?
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Post by H Abiff on Jul 5, 2013 23:03:05 GMT -5
Chris I was in Bamberg in 65 and 66.
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Post by cbk on Jul 5, 2013 23:15:02 GMT -5
Never made it to Bamberg, although I flew over it when I was doing my pilot's training. That was on our second tour. Never thought that being stationed in Germany would lead me to a job in aviation. I actually had my German license before I had my FAA pilot's ticket. It was an interesting place to live and fly in. Made me appreciate our country very much. And I just hate what the Left is doing to it. Don't know if we, of a certain age, will live to see the progressives collapse and real American values one again take center stage. But I sure hope so!
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Post by jb on Jul 6, 2013 9:48:35 GMT -5
Thanks, j.b. How are things going for you out in the HOT West? The temps have just been unreal. We in the South usually have to put up with hot and humid. But y'all have us beat this year......not that I want to win that one. Happy air conditioning! Chris, I forgot to respond to this earlier. Yep, just plain damn hot here like it is every year. I tell people we had mild winters and hard winters living in WNY. Here, EVERY summer is just plain HOT!! I'm always saying, c'mon October!! ;-) |
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Post by cbk on Jul 6, 2013 16:06:09 GMT -5
j.b. FOX said that some of the tourists went out into the desert just to experience the heat. Are they crazy or what!
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