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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Yes Compared to the 1950’s when we didn’t have a landline… they got electricity wired to the farms a month before I was born. We were pumping water from a well outside of the house, heating water for dishes, baths and laundry on a propane cook stove, took baths in a portable metal tub. by a wood burning stove in a back room, no air conditioning, doing laundry in a wringer washing machine and hanging it out to dry on a clothesline, grew most of our food, baked our own bread, pies etc and didn’t frequent restaurants, made most of our clothing and did simple things for fun

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@cherokeepatti Bleak then. Post war Britain was pretty grim. But there was a massive housing program to get rid of the slums. And no extreme poverty.