![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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