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Originally Posted by raymo
I learned to write on a clay tablet, so those things were like yesterday for me
raymo |
Does a "slate" qualify as a clay tablet?...because that's what I learnt to write on.
I do remember going in a "horse and sullky?" to Casino from my grandparents dairy farm at McKees Hill, in Casino we did the shopping and returned with a block of ice for the "ice chest" . It is so nice to be able to look from the car to see the old house when I go to town and the hills that I roamed hunting rabbits.
In my first three years of school everyone went with bare feet ... soft drink Xmas only.
I remember it all as if it were only 67 years ago.
Buying groceries was fun...I will have a pound of flour..and the storekeeper would weigh a pound of flour and put it in a brown paper bag, ...and half a pound of biscuits..weigh them and another brown paper bag...
I recall when the first self service store was to open in town, the concept was unknown, everyone was saying that it could not work as they would be robbed blind.
Alex