Lets go back in time, back before the WPA , CCC, PTA , FHA. KKK, IRS, AAA,, AARP, TMA, and Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Rosevelt.
Mothers stayed home and took care of their kids, done house work and tried to teach right and wrong, to her little retards or Idiots. If you got an allowance, your parents were rich and it was most likely a dime a week. That would buy you a bag of popcorn and a ticket to the Saturday morning movie.
Dad went to work everyday and hardly earned enough to support that family, yet he found a way to build a house and pay a few bills. His pay was around fifty cents an hour, On pay day, his money went to the company store first. They took out what he had charged to his account and he received the rest of the money, if there was any thing left.
We kids, didn’t know that we were poor and always thought, if we didn’t have it, we didn’t need it. Dad was always working an extra job. He found a lot of extra work, but people just didn’t have the money to pay him. Some people would pay him what they could, and pay a little now and then. Many never paid anything!
There were some churches that would give assistance to their church members and they were really selective. Other than that, there was no help for the needy, the sick, or the dying. There was no such thing as welfare or anything that came close to it. A person had to do everything for themselves. Some people would do battle over what they found in garbage cans in back allies.
A company doctor would make house calls and grocery stores would take your order by phone and deliver them to your home. Every grocery store offered their customers a charge account The Milkman would deliver milk to your door, every day and the Postman delivered your mail to the box on your house. People that rented houses to other people, came around the first of each month to collect the rent. Law enforcement was always sneaking around and peeking around corners or in your windows.
I can remember hearing that one women caught a policeman peeking in her window and she beat the hell out of him. It must have been true, because it was a long time before he was back working. We had a few town drunks and a few drunk dogs that hung around in the back of the bars. That’s where the empty bottles were left.
If a person wasn’t working for the city, they were working for the Company. The company was the “Gold Mine”. The town wasn’t really large, but it had six grave yards! Mostly miners. There were ten bars on main street, where the miners drank beer before going home. A lot of wives sent their kids down to the bars to bring their fathers home!
The closest town was three miles away and down hill, There, you would find more bars with beer and whisky, gambling in the back room, and girls could be found up-stairs. If you were to look closely at the walls in some of these bars, you could see bullet holes with lead still in them.
Saturday nights were the big nights. And if you had never been there before, you should never turn your back to a guy playing the drums. If there were bodies laying on the floor, you had to be careful not to step on them. They didn’t remove the bodies until midnight, just before the big crowd comes in.
Oh! I forgot to tell you, The Bar maids wear boots with a spikes mounted the toe of the boot. So watch what you say to them. There are two big jars on the bar, one has hard boiled eggs in it, the other has a rattle snake. Don’t reach for an egg, if you have had too much to drink. There have been a number of snake bites in them bars, You will get the same thing up stairs from the girls.
The town had a few street lights, but they were so dim, you could hardly tell if they were lite. Going home at night is usually in the dark. You never know what is out there lurking in the dark shadows! Some of the things that were found, are now hanging on walls in cabins.
I can remember something with a long tail and a square head. that followed me home one night, it was a dog, and she had her head stuck in a box, Dad wouldn’t let me keep her! When we got the box off her head, she barked a couple of times and trotted away.
We had five school houses in our town and only two teachers, One of them taught at the high school. I am not sure what the other one did. 99% ) of the student body were idiots and they couldn’t find their way home at high noon. I think a lot of those kids didn’t have a home.
When a family, living in a town, didn’t want a stray animal, they took it out in the country and turned it lose, When a family living in the country didn’t want a kid, they brought them to town and turned them lose.
Girls from the country were always more fun than the girls that lived in town. Girls from town thought they knew everything, but girls from the country wanted to learn everything.
My brother and one of his friends, went out in a farmers field and were steeling his melons The farmer caught them, he made them gather up all the melons they could carry and took them up to his barn. He sat them both down and made them eat all the melons they had carried. Talk about sick boys. Neither one of them lived, that I know of.
Okay girls, kiss me good night, I want to go to sleep now. Will one of you pull my finger before you go?
By: Ben R.
Dad went to work everyday and hardly earned enough to support that family, yet he found a way to build a house and pay a few bills. His pay was around fifty cents an hour, On pay day, his money went to the company store first. They took out what he had charged to his account and he received the rest of the money, if there was any thing left.
We kids, didn’t know that we were poor and always thought, if we didn’t have it, we didn’t need it. Dad was always working an extra job. He found a lot of extra work, but people just didn’t have the money to pay him. Some people would pay him what they could, and pay a little now and then. Many never paid anything!
There were some churches that would give assistance to their church members and they were really selective. Other than that, there was no help for the needy, the sick, or the dying. There was no such thing as welfare or anything that came close to it. A person had to do everything for themselves. Some people would do battle over what they found in garbage cans in back allies.
A company doctor would make house calls and grocery stores would take your order by phone and deliver them to your home. Every grocery store offered their customers a charge account The Milkman would deliver milk to your door, every day and the Postman delivered your mail to the box on your house. People that rented houses to other people, came around the first of each month to collect the rent. Law enforcement was always sneaking around and peeking around corners or in your windows.
I can remember hearing that one women caught a policeman peeking in her window and she beat the hell out of him. It must have been true, because it was a long time before he was back working. We had a few town drunks and a few drunk dogs that hung around in the back of the bars. That’s where the empty bottles were left.
If a person wasn’t working for the city, they were working for the Company. The company was the “Gold Mine”. The town wasn’t really large, but it had six grave yards! Mostly miners. There were ten bars on main street, where the miners drank beer before going home. A lot of wives sent their kids down to the bars to bring their fathers home!
The closest town was three miles away and down hill, There, you would find more bars with beer and whisky, gambling in the back room, and girls could be found up-stairs. If you were to look closely at the walls in some of these bars, you could see bullet holes with lead still in them.
Saturday nights were the big nights. And if you had never been there before, you should never turn your back to a guy playing the drums. If there were bodies laying on the floor, you had to be careful not to step on them. They didn’t remove the bodies until midnight, just before the big crowd comes in.
Oh! I forgot to tell you, The Bar maids wear boots with a spikes mounted the toe of the boot. So watch what you say to them. There are two big jars on the bar, one has hard boiled eggs in it, the other has a rattle snake. Don’t reach for an egg, if you have had too much to drink. There have been a number of snake bites in them bars, You will get the same thing up stairs from the girls.
The town had a few street lights, but they were so dim, you could hardly tell if they were lite. Going home at night is usually in the dark. You never know what is out there lurking in the dark shadows! Some of the things that were found, are now hanging on walls in cabins.
I can remember something with a long tail and a square head. that followed me home one night, it was a dog, and she had her head stuck in a box, Dad wouldn’t let me keep her! When we got the box off her head, she barked a couple of times and trotted away.
We had five school houses in our town and only two teachers, One of them taught at the high school. I am not sure what the other one did. 99% ) of the student body were idiots and they couldn’t find their way home at high noon. I think a lot of those kids didn’t have a home.
When a family, living in a town, didn’t want a stray animal, they took it out in the country and turned it lose, When a family living in the country didn’t want a kid, they brought them to town and turned them lose.
Girls from the country were always more fun than the girls that lived in town. Girls from town thought they knew everything, but girls from the country wanted to learn everything.
My brother and one of his friends, went out in a farmers field and were steeling his melons The farmer caught them, he made them gather up all the melons they could carry and took them up to his barn. He sat them both down and made them eat all the melons they had carried. Talk about sick boys. Neither one of them lived, that I know of.
Okay girls, kiss me good night, I want to go to sleep now. Will one of you pull my finger before you go?
By: Ben R.
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