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For those who long for the "good ole days" here's the way it was....

Sobering old photos! These pictures are sorta continuing the story we started a few days ago regarding the house on Arch Street in Searcy Arkansas that has been changed so much.

These are what we need when we are feeling as if times are awfully tough. Blogging buddy Anita supplied these photos of possibly some of her relatives, definitely at her home on Arch Street in Searcy.

Man resting under tree

The question is whether this man is absolutely worn out from working, whether the car hit the tree, or whether he is just doing what he usually does everyday. If he'd had air-conditioning and TVs as we have today, he'd not be doing the nap at this place!

Corrine Hart

Another question here. Is she exasperated because of the man's behavior under the tree? Is she just showing off her legs?

I can remember hanging clothes on a clothes line. If you had children and diapers it took a lot of hanging. Once we got a clothes dryer and my husband made the observation that he sure missed the smell of sheets hung outside to dry and perhaps it would be nice to use a clothes line again I didn't speak to him for days! And I said dirty words under my breath.

Posted by Barbara S. Duncan ABR, CRS, GRI, e-PRO Searcy AR on 11/06/2009 03:06 PM

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24 Comments on For those who long for the "good ole days" here's the way it was....

NOV

Barbara: Sorry, hun, but you cannot fool me. The young girl under the clothesline... is YOU. I'm just sure of it. The gorgeous legs are the giveaway. Of course you are "hot" now... but you were even more of a "hottie" way back when. Thanks for sharing your childhood pictures with us. LOL.

Barb - I can't explain the gawdawful bonnet, but the apron is pulled up, in the same fashion my grandmother used to do... to contain all the clothspins, as she hung the laundry. (And to show off a seriously nice pair of gams).

Karen Anne, I did fool you. That is NOT me. I confess, I never wore a sun bonnet in my life but would like to have one for costume parties now. It is actually Anita's mom, who lived to be a hundred. Surely, she will surface and tell us all.

Alan Elvis, I thought she had one of those clothes pin holders around her waist. Seriously now, sun bonnets and showing your legs do not go together. It even looks as if she has on some slightly elevated heels. I do remember my mother looking something like this as she hung out clothes.

Barbara - I remember it took a couple years after I became a bride and a mother before we got a washer. I still had the clothesline, but eventually got the dryer. Imagine my horror when the man of the house was hand loading cartridges for his rifle out in the garage.

He seated one in the chamber to make certain it fit ok, and the rifle accidentally fired "automatically." The bullet immediately hit my washing machine to his left, fragmented, went completely through the washer, and flew between the ground and the subfloor in the living room on the otherside of the wall, and immediately under my feet!

There was dead silence in the garage, and I didn't know what I would find when I opened the door. He, my father-in-law and 3 year old son were sitting out there in stunned silence. . .I was so glad to see they were ok, but so mad at him at the same time, that I remained just as speechless, and simply closed the door.

Here's a close-up of the man's face. Look familiar, Anita?

I think the leggy lady is wearing shorts and has a clothespin bag around her waist. Whatever she's wearing, that's a provocative pose.

Face look familiar, Anita?

Thanks, Don, for the close up of the man. I've NEVER known who it is, Bob seems to think it's my dad but I don't. As to Mother and the shorts......she has on a "smock", to cover her arms and some of her legs I guess....She never went out in the sun without a "sun bonnet" or straw hat...That is probably the reason that until the last years of her life, no one could guess her real age: her face was so well preserved. Of course, she also never went to bed without cleansing her face with Pond's Cold Cream.

Anita Fuller

These are great....I just love all the pictures that show up on this site....thank you for some good old fun!

Myrl, what a story! I'll bet there were some stunned people when that gun fired. I guess that's why I hate guns. They always do damage where they shouldn't. What if you'd been there at the washer! I hope he replaced your washing machine in one big hurry!!

Don, GEESH! Those close-ups are scary. Can you two agree on who the man was? I can't tell whether he's grinning or asleep! I question your thinking Corinne wore shorts. She was the age, possibly, when they didn't believe in wearing shorts or pants. My mother thought it was a sin to wear pants....men's clothing. She'd wear a dress alll the time. Never mind that sweating hot weather made her underwear show, what little she had one, and the dress revealed it all. She was at least NOT breaking any of God's laws. She wore bonnets but never a pair of short shorts.

Anita, I told Don that I doubt she wore short shorts. What do you think? The pictures are neat and I thank you for sharing them.

Barbara - I think she's showing off her bonnet! And rightly so, LOL!

Debi

Barbara,

Nutsy is convinced that the upper photo is Clyde after the ambush and that the lower photo is Bonnie before the ambush

NOV

Karen, thank you for visiting.

Debi, good thinking. Can you imagine how hot those bonnets were???

Nutsy, you have a mind that just operates so far above all of the rest of our minds. You probably have it figured out exactly!!!!

Barbara, I started to say that the man is doing what men have done best through out time ... nothing, and the women is doing what we've always done through out time ... working. However, my husband just pointed out that I was making a very sexist remark. What do you think? Is telling the truth sexist? LOL. I love the pictures ... a reminder of simpler times.

Suesan, we think alike. I almost put that in my blog! Tell your husband that women are incapable of making sexist remarks.....everything we accuse men of is true! LOL

O.k. Barbara, I retract my statement about shorts. Her bloomers are showing. That makes it even better.

I love the picture of the chap snoozing in the swing with the straw hat on the chair and the Ford or Chevy auto on the lawn under the shade of the tree. Thanks for sharing, Anita.

Bloomers? Goodness....that would go back a long time ago. Do you know who the chap was? Was he posing or sleeping or joking?

If you two are back home you should visit the Pioneer Village open house tomorrow. I went today and it was interesting.

Dear Godmother,

That comment above was actually the boss quoting me. I was out of town doing training for other certifried assistants. I am sure that was Clyde after the ambush. I know by 1930's robbers.

Nutsy

oh for the good ol days!

thanks for the memories

your friend in Charlottesville Virginia!

To tell the truth, I NEVER saw my mother in a pair of short shorts in my - or her life! The only shorts I remember her wearing were one piece things, with real wide legs. I can't explain her showing her legs in this picture.

Anita Fuller

I see that Mrs. Hart was out hanging up clothes on a outdoor clothesline when the picture was taken. I'll bet that she has somehow arraigned something on her front for holding the clothespins. My mom would tuck up an apron for holding clothespins. I sort of remember her finally making a special holder out of cloth, similar to a carpenter's apron.

Love the pictures!

Nutsy, your boss knows exactly what you want to say....always.

Charles McDonald, the good old days were not wonderful!

Anita, this may have been a flirty side of your mother that you never knew. It is funny, isn't it!

Harold Gene, thanks. I really liked these pictures that were provided by Anita. My mother had a clothes pin holder, handmade probably by her.

NOV

My mother hung clothes to dry as long as she had kids still at home. Don't know what she did after we all left. I do know that she got a new washing machine in 1959, but it wasn't what we call washing machines today. She got a brand new wringer washer. She said the automatics just didn't get clothes clean!

David, my mother had one of those old wringer type machines. It was better than a wash pot that preceded it. We have it really easy today!

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