"Dee Flint" wrote in message
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Ye gawds Hans, no 115vac until you were 8-9 years old??! That would
have been in the 1958-59 timeframe and REA had just gotten to your
neighborhood then?? WTF . . ?!! Or were you in Guatemala??

We got REA in the summer of 1954 when I was 14 years old. Running water
too. (I was 8 or 9 when I learned Morse.)

73, de Hans, K0HB


There were a lot of rural areas like that. I lived on a farm in Iowa from
the age of 6 months to 10 years old and there was no electricity or
running water there. It was kerosene lamps and carry water from the pump.
There were electrical lines in the area, just not to our farm. And from
the numbers above, I see that I am about 10 years younger than Hans.

Hey Hans, looks like there's a bunch of city slickers in here!

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

Been following this thread with increased interest....just have to throw in
my two cents worth.

Years ago.,..must have been in the mid to late 50s I would spend time with
my Aunt Kay and Uncle Frank. They lived in the old original family home in
Leetonia Ohio. No indoor plumbing, no heat, a shed for the Model T that
still ran, and a special place with the Sears catalog.

Winters were the most interesting...with the feather beds and pillows and
quilts so thick it would bury my little body so deep I looked like I was
part of the bed.

Frozen bed pans, contemplation of the ''quick'' run to the Sears catalog
shed in the middle of the night. Brrrrrrrrrrrr......

And yes I had to walk to school ....but it was only a mile or so.

Dan/W4NTI