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Another Trip Back in Time
Reminiscing is colored, splatter, obfuscated and twisted by emotion. Nostalgia in and of it self makes us long for times gone by. What we remember or perceive is probably not exactly how events unfurled or how things were always done.
Not long ago I had written a post where I had in part expounded on the building practices of yester year. As always when making a comparison of old to new, a few lovers of the old stuff had taken a differing point of view.
There seems to be this ingrained idea that people did better work back in the day. As I said before, the crumby stuff built a 100 years ago has all fallen down and been replaced. Well not all of it.
The other morning I had the pleasure of inspecting a house just a few years shy of 100. It is on a street of beautiful old houses, an affluent area in its day.
As I worked my way through the house from the attic on down, one feature was very apparent. The floors were sloped. Now sloped floors in a hundred year old house are anything but uncommon, however these floors were a bit more sloped ... more

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