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I have a shirt my grandmother made for my father in 1931. Hand-made button holes and all. Even a pocket. Looks to have been a bed sheet.
I don’t recall which, flour or potato, but companies heard people were using their product sacks to make clothes so they started adding patterns to them.
Article about clothing made from flour sacks:
Flowered Dresses from the Flour Mills: A Story of Kindness
One of the differentiators between Westinghouse and Edison is that Westinghouse gave a lot of credit to his engineers and employees. The engineers names went on the patents that Westinghouse filed. Edison was not this gracious...
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The Marines recruiting requirments were more stringent as far minimum height / weight. The recruitors of all branches saw a lot of Depression era young men that were malnourished, undersize and underweight.
That's why I carry a knife.
Yeah, I'd spare that deer's life.
And things like that caused the lifelong titanic clash of hunter vs. non hunter battling in my head to finally prevail in favor of non hunter. That and age.
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Dad had 9 sisters and a brother, Born in 1929 and grew up at the end of the road in the Appalachian mountains. Told me his mother bought a parachute and made shirts out of it. He said those were the worst shirts they ever had. Wouldn't breath and they wouldn't wear out.
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I remember my mom reminiscing how my grandmother would cut worn sheets up the middle and sew the outer edges back together to create a new center.
So who here had their sisters hair stuck in the wheel while it was turning 10k RPM?
Flour, potato, animal feed. My grandmother was still getting laying mash,iirc, in those bags in the early 70s. Wasn't fancy like some of what yall have posted. These were plain white bags with a floral border at one end. She used them for everything from potholders to curtains.
We hated when they discontinued those bags and went to the worthless plastic groups sacks.
In a time before "Think of the children!"
I remember mom loading us up at 5am in the morning, shoving us in the very back of the chevy blazer. My brother and I slept in the back, while she plowed snow for a bunch of parking lots. No seatbelts, just pillows and blankets.
When the sun came up, we just hung out in the back with our hotwheels.
And away we go to the toothpick factory
Hey! You are in my neck of the woods! PM me and we can grab some coffee if you are still around.
And George Westinghouse never electrocuted an elephant as a marketing gimmick.
Frying Dumbo was not a good PR move for Edison. Just ‘sayin!
Sirhr
Turkish "gun safety" strikes yet again...
Turks and gun safety is just like Indians and electrical safety. In any typical Indian residential neighborhood, you will see titantic cobwebs of uninsulated high current wiring stretching all over the place, many of them lower than adult height and across walkways or even on the ground. Just naked cables with hundreds of amps running through. And worse, many residents who do not want to sign up for paid electrical service will splice lines from the nearest transformers. You will routinely see men wearing no protective clothing or gloves climb onto massive transformer nests and string wiring from them into nearby residences while the power is active. That is also done using the caternary lines from railways if a railway is close by. Electrocution is the number one cause of accidental deaths in India. Thousands of fatal and often fiery and spectacular electrocutions nationwide every year.
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