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m h h < / > : -y 1 1 Vr . :|Pil -r,, ' SFB : - ■A ■- \yt *»'•! SIIIISS: I* t > * r f *<->' *■ llliti Œ «I David Trotter opened the 'Cow Palace' to the public this week for his 'Maple Fools' show which featured several new leather sculptured bams by Trotter, and paintings by John Climenhage. is j/oa-W oat tkt Ioa£ umwcI The Good Old Days By Phyllis Loweiy How often as we grow older have we wished for 'The Good Old Days?" The peace and quiet of the countryside, no TV, no boom boxes, no computers, no roaring trucks, and hardly any traffic on the roads. My good old days started in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. I was bom in the city of Hamilton, a real treat in those days was to take a ride on the streetcar on Sundays around the beltline, which meant you went all around the route, getting off where you got on. Eskimo pies were also special, at 5 cents. When I was 5, I started to go to school, kindergarten started after the Easter break until June. That summer we moved to Kendal, I couldn't start school in September. I wasn't old enough, no kindergarten, so I spent my time playing all over the village, village, safe and secure under the watchful eyes of the villagers. villagers. I had no fear of being hurt, oh there were dangers, but they were the deep water at the mills, but I knew better better than to go there. I think I knew every nook and cranny in the village and was in most of the homes. We used to build imaginary houses in the sand at the street intersections, outlining outlining them with small stones, never fearing about being run over by a car or tmck. There were only 2 or 3 around, mostly horses and wagons and a few wandering cows, that had been turned loose, to feed on the grass in the ditches, it was easy to get out of their way. As children we were never at a loss for something to do, we didn't need to be entertained entertained or driven to organized play groups. Our mothers were always at home to take care of us. We didn't know about the scarcity of money, we were well fed from the garden and there were chickens chickens for eggs, and to boil for stew. We were secure in the love of our families. Well I have reached the age where I am going to debunk the fond memories about "The Good Old Days." We lived in houses with no inside plumbing, no running water, and no electricity. All year round, no matter the weather, you had to take that walk to the outside privy. You bathed in the wash tub, remember there was rto unlimited supply of water, inside, cold dr hot. If you had a cook stove with a reservoir there was always a limited supply of warm water, unless you forgot to refill it or the stove went out. Some houses had cisterns that held the rain water but this was not for drinking, so you had to get that water from a well or spring. . You did most of the reading reading you wanted to do in the daytime, as the light was provided provided at night by coal oil lamps and it wasn't always in the right place for you to see 1 veiy well. These lamps were brought to the kitchen every morning to be filled and the lamp chimneys cleaned. No one stayed up too late. Wood or coal, if you could afford it, was used as fuel for the stoves, many houses had back kitchens or summer kitchens where the cooking, the washing and the ironing was done in the warm weather, weather, otherwise it would be too hot in the summer. You ironed with what was called flat-irons and they were heated heated on the stove and everything everything needed to be ironed, there was no wash and wear material in those days. When I was 6, we moved to a village outside Hamilton, still no inside plumbing, but the privy was out in the wood shed. 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