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Originally Posted by mrfixit

...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"

You are da man!!!!

I thought I would be the only who remembered the coal man when I posted.

I remember my grandmother being the first one to have a refrigerator instead of an ice box. I remember telling her I was thirsty and she got a glass of water that she stored in the frig.

Funny how I still do the same thing today. [/B]

Kids today's reaction would be, "what do you mean there were no refrigerators".