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Originally Posted by 2BNTV
I remember a coal delivery man shoveling coal onto a chute going into the basement of a house so it be used for the furnace.
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...ME too. OUR coal-man had a Dray-wagon with a BIG sign that read........ " C. COLE and BE WARM " "Ph. 9-6055". That IS right ...only 5 digits in the Phone number in our town. The owner was Mrs. C. COLE and she sold COAL. The Dray was pulled by 2 giant (to me) horses. YUP...then my job was to shovel the coal to the furnace (as needed) ...and...haul out the "clinkers" after the coal was burned...I would smash the clinkers to dust--in the garden. DANG things grew big where the clinkers went. I THOUGHT I was a "BIG SHOT" because I was responsible to keep the house warm. When I was 11 we switched to natural gas. ......Today it would probably be considered "child abuse" to have a "little-shaver" like me open the "hot pot" and shovel in the coal. ....ME.....from 6 to 11 yo ....I thought i was "THE MAN"