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The Way Things Used to Be 23--Coal Delivery
Before our landlord switched to oil, I used to love watching the old three compartment coal trucks make deliveries to my apartment house on 88th and West End. The driver backed up to the sidewalk a...
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| posted by oldtimewriter
EONS AUTHORS' WEEKEND
On October 4th and 5th Eons' authors would be available for interactive chat. Click on this link view link Eons Book Gallery for more information.
| posted by Daffodil56
Way Things Used To Be 22--The Fruit Peddler
There were dozens of guys with pushcarts along the streets—the hot dog man; the Eskimo Pie Man trying to compete against the Good Humor Man's bells, white uniform, Sam Browne belt and freezer truck...
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| posted by oldtimewriter
The Way Things Used To Be 21--The Icemen Part 2
We had three different Ice Men in our neighborhood and they looked so much alike we thought they might be brothers. Later we found out that two of them came from Naples and one from Sicily and that...
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| posted by oldtimewriter
The Way Things Used To Be 20--The Icemen
The most interesting deliverymen to watch were the short, dark, silent men pushing open carts with metal wheels, loaded with three hundred pound cakes of ice. The cakes were a foot wide, a foot hig...
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| posted by oldtimewriter
The Way Things Used To Be 19--The Milkman
Every morning before seven, Sheffield Farms and Borden’s delivered milk and cream door-to-door in horse-drawn carts. The milk came in one quart glass bottles wide at the base, narrow at the neck, w...
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| posted by oldtimewriter
New historical fiction...
Hello All-
I am a screenwriter and novelist living in Southern California. My first novel, the Historical novel SWEETSMOKE, is available 8/27. I hope you'll have a chance to check it out! More info... read more | posted by DavidFuller
I am a screenwriter and novelist living in Southern California. My first novel, the Historical novel SWEETSMOKE, is available 8/27. I hope you'll have a chance to check it out! More info... read more | posted by DavidFuller
WAY THINGS USED TO BE 18--The Street Sweeper
Between the twenty story apartment houses on Riverside and West End, 88th Street was lined with five story single-family homes, some brownstone, some white stone. We knew all the people in all the ...
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| posted by oldtimewriter
