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From: Eddie <>
Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] Bath "Tub"
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 01:19:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6c.68ac0db.27856a1f@aol.com>


At 12:54 AM 1/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Jim, I can remember visiting two of my aunts back in the 40's, in Longview
>and getting a bath in a big metal tub. (A Number two wash tub.) She would
>heat the water on the stove. She also had the card for the ice to be
>delivered. She would set the card in the window with the number of pounds
>of ice she wanted the man to bring in for her ice box. I think it was like
>25, 50 I guess 75,100 . I'm not sure. (our's started with 12½ ) If you
>were to put an X on a square pc of cardboard, each area would have the
>number in it. (The number on Top would be the amount you wanted)This way
>the iceman could see from the road what to bring into the house. One aunt
>worked and had a screened-in porch where her ice box was and the man would
>take it in and leave it for her. I don't know how she paid him. (We left
>the money on top of the Ice Box.) Back then she may have just left the
>money, everyone was so honest. I lived in West Texas, Odessa. We had all
>modern facilities.
>I'm glad I got to share the memories with my relatives. I know what it's
>like to go to an 'out house.' It would scare me at first. One aunt had all
>indoor plumbing two doors away, the other had water, but had to go outside
>to the "privy." Just a hole with a little house over it (With the Quarter
>moon in the door and Sears Roebuck Catalog inside). At night it was a
>metal bucket. I can't remember what they were called. Slop Jar They were
>made for using and the next morning my aunt would take it out to empty it.
>I'm glad I mainly visited in the summer. (Most Cold Air Came in From the
>Bottom, and we had to spread lime on the results) Ha! Melba Impson-Killeen

Comments by
Eddie M. Robinson
Oak Ridge, Tn.
"The Atomic City"



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