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From: "evelyn draper" <>
Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV-L] 1945 or 46
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 21:23:29 -0600
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Well Jim, I too can remember the "good old days"with the # 3 tub and the out
door toliets.
Mother's uncle Jim Stewart came to see us there on Short Davis St in
Clarksville,
if you guys can remember there was a concete ditch that ran through
Clarksville, I think the WPA built this drainage ditch year before we were
all born. Any way our out door toliet was on the other side of the creek
(that's what us city kids called the ditch) from our house. Daddy built a
bridge to get from the house to the toliet.
Sometimes we (Billy, Bruce and myself) would not put the lid down on the
toliet, so Daddy which was good a Southern Engineering put a string on the
lever that helt the lid up and ran it to the door, so when you open the door
the lid would shut. Well Billy and Bruce (I was a thicker built that the
boys) would slip through the door with out the string pulling the lever to
let the seat down. Now the next one who went through
the door would have a scare when the seat went down with a loud slam.
Well, Uncle Jim was almost completly blind and late one night while he was
visiting he had to go to the toliet, so his wife went with him to get him
across the bridge and to the outhouse. He was in a pretty bad hurry by the
time he got to the toliet , and jerked the door open pretty fast, the lever
turned the seat loose and when it fell it scared Uncle Jim so bad he took
off running and fell in the ditch. Boogered him up somewhat . Daddy gave us
all a whipping for that, even though I told him I was to big to get through
the door without the lever turning loose.
We were all pretty bad about doing things like that.
Now I will quit rambling for a while'
Evelyn Mitchell Draper

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Giddens <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:23 PM
Subject: [TXREDRIV-L] 1945 or 46


> I was born July 41 and know nothing about the snow of 42. However I
remember when I was probably about 4 (not in school yet), we live on the
English road about 1 maybe 1.5 miles from 82 in a big house on the south
side of the English road we called the "Black Place", about 1/2 mile before
the Witmer place. It must have got very cold because I rememer my dad
taking us kids down to the pool and letting us skate on it (regular shoes of
course). I remember falling and the back of my head hitting the ice.
Later the ice got a crack in it and dad made us get off. I remember dad
heating brick in front of the fireplace, wrapping them in towels and
bringing them into our cold bedroom and putting the bricks in the bed with
us for us to put our feet on. That was great, I bet the Hilton never did
that.
> I guess all us poor folks lived on a "place" because later were live on
the "Lewis" place on Madras road were Garland Hines later built a nice brick
home. By the time I was in the first grade, we moved to College Ave in
Clarksville, I guess that became the Giddens Place. Still no indoor
plumbing for another 4 or 5 years. I remember putting a sign in the
window to signal the "ice man" how many pounds of ice we needed for the "ice
box".
> There there was the #3 tube in the kitchen for the Saturday bath after mom
heated some water on the stove. Then there was the black man named
"Shorty" that came in his wagon and picked up our slop for his pigs. The
slop bucket was always hanging on a nail in our small barn. My dog would
alway lay real quite while Shorty walked by him, then when Shorty would
take his eyes off Skipper, Skipper would go after him. Then there was
the black man George that graded our rock street with the maintainer for the
city. He would always beep his horn for us kids then give us the thumbs up
sign. Well enought rambling for now, got to go to work in morning.
>
> Jim Giddens,
> Paris/Clarksville, Tx
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