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We did a lot of that to keep the house and everything going for the winter. There was cutting wood and splitting wood. We just used the basement for cooling or in between the window and the screen you know, put things in there in the winter.” “In the early days my parents had (an icebox) but I don’t remember it. And then we got an icebox and we could pick up ice in Wausau. And so we had ice for about a month, two or three maybe, during the summer. It had sawdust in it and we would pack ice in it. “I can remember putting ice in the shed outside the barn. The ice would last the whole year this way.”
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We would put a layer of ice down, then a layer of sawdust, and then another layer of ice and so on. “On the farm where I worked we had an icehouse to store the ice. Boy, that basement floor sure used to hold a lot of food and keep it cold.” “We used to take everything down and put it on the basement floor, anything that we wanted to keep cold. The ice would keep your milk, butter and other stuff cool to a certain extent so it would last longer.” In those iceboxes, they would last maybe a day or two. Then in the summer time we would take the sawdust off, bring a cube in and put in an ice box. We would put sawdust over the top of them and in between each cube. We would store those big cubes in a corncrib. We would go to the lake and make great big cubes. We would cut it up in small pieces, brown it and put in jars, then heat it in a boiler for maybe three or four hours.” Since there were no refrigerators at that time, they had smoke houses where they would smoke the sausage, so it would keep. They would kill maybe a pig or a cow at the same time. When the battery would fade out we would sit there with our ears real close to the radio so we could hear that program.” We had to do our school work first and if we did we had about 15 minutes or at the most half an hour to listen to the radio. “I remember my sister she bought the first battery radio and that radio had 3 C batteries, one A battery and one B battery. It really became a family affair to sit around and listen to the radio.” My dad had his favorite ones he would listen to. One of my favorite radio shows was Fibber McGee and Molly. It was rounded, almost like a dome shape with dials and a big bunch of batteries that went with it. “We didn’t have a radio until I went out working and bought one. A lot of evenings if you didn’t know what else to do, we’d sit and play our guitars and sing.” After a while we had the flat records but we still had to crank it up because we didn’t have electricity.” The records were about six-seven inches long and they were round (cylinders) and we had to crank it up. “We had this old-fashioned Victrola record player. They were a little better with the mantels on them but they too were nothing as compared to electricity.” “There was always chimneys to be cleaned, black chimneys to be cleaned and then later on we had gas light. There was a lantern (kerosene) and my brothers would turn it off when we went to bed.” And I know it was always pretty dark when they were dressing there. “Upstairs, the boys would sleep up there.
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After a while we got a mantle lamp in our living room which was much brighter than the oil lamp.” We had a lamp stand in the hallway so we could bring the lamp up and set it so then we could see into our rooms. We had one in the kitchen and we had one in the dining area which opened up into the living area. “We had (kerosene) lanterns in the barn and kerosene lamps (in the house). They were bright lights, better than a kerosene lamp.” One time my ma lit it and KABOOM, my ma opened the front door and threw it because it exploded. “In the kitchen they were all gas lanterns, they had white gas and they pumped air in there. But the hay was thrown down from the mound ahead of time in the daytime, all you had to do was push down through the hole for the cattle to eat.” You didn’t take any lanterns up there, you went by what you could see or feel. The worst to do was having to get the hay out of the barn at night to feed the cows. You got used to looking in the dark, seeing in the dark. Boy we thought we had the world by the whatever. And then later on we got those gas lanterns, they had mantles on them. Fire was always a hazard with kerosene or gas lamps.īefore we always had kerosene lanterns or lamps and every weekend we’d always have to wash all of them chimneys so they’d be clean for the next week. They provided a brighter flame but could explode. Gas lamps and lanterns were also used on some farms.