[Boomer]

OK. Just one this morning. Then I am logging off. Immediately. But I can't forget to ask this one.

Did any of you girls ever wear a feedsack dress?

In case you do not know about feedsack dresses, I am not talking about Boomer in Burlap.

Feedsacks were made of pretty printed cloth, calico I guess. My grandparents lived on a farm.

Did any of you girls ever have a cowgirl outfit, complete with 2 six-shooters and holsters? I did. It was a girly version of Hopalong Cassidy's outfit. It was black with lots of fringe. And, of course, I had a cowgirl hat, too.

So feedsack dresses? Cowgirl outfits complete with six-shooters? Hopalong Cassidy? Do our granddaughters have any idea what we are talking about?

Boomer

[redwitch]

No to feedsack dresses but I think I know what you're talking about.

Yes to the cowgirl outfit. I hated it! It was a skirt!!! But I loved the boots, hat, gun and vest. I actually made Jess a cowgirl outfit one year. She was doing a biography as Annie Oakley and they had to dress in costume if at all possible. So, she had vest, skirt, hat, boots (boots were first, bright red, so rest of outfit was yellow with red trim) and rifle. No six-shooters -- couldn't find them.

[nONIE]

Chuck,

Im so embarrassed, :redface: my best friend lived in Logan square and my dad had his tailor shop there for many years but I must confess, I dont know what the Polish cannonball is :dontknow: can ya fill me in?

[graciegirl]

YES to feedsack dresses. My grandmother sewed for me and she had friends who lived on a farm who didn't sew and gave her stacks of material, beautiful prints. Most of Ohio at that time were farm people and wonderful folks to know when milk and eggs were rationed during the mid 40's.

My grandmother could make a designer dress out of a piece of pretty feedsack cotton. I never felt anything but like a princess. I had Penneys dresses too.

I had a cowgirl outfit and two holsters with cap pistols. I "killed" my share of varmints, but never wanted to shoot anyone when I grew up. (Well hardly ever)

I also had a WAC purse, I was awfully proud of.

[TomW]

I remember when we had a PARTY LINE where 4 families shared one phone line. Each family had a different ring pattern (Long, two shorts) if the call was for your house. When we wanted to make a hole in a board, we used a BRACE and BIT. Has anyone had any hand cranked ice cream lately? That was the ony way we got ice cream years ago.

[nONIE]

Tom, those party lines were a hoot!

Listening in on conversations was rather shocking at times! :yikes:

[Hyacinth Bucket]

A-Line dress or the Princess waist.

Schmier(?) case (cottage cheese) bumbershoot, Achy (pronounced AH-kee) but back in the throat, fercuts(?) broken.

I remember all of those.

HB

[TomW]

Nonie,
I remember it being very difficult to "court" a girl if you had a party line. Sometimes you would here another click or two after you said goodby and then waited a few seconds. Of course there was only one phone in each home back then.

[swrinfla]

TomW:

I grew up with a party line on Cape Cod. 147 Ring 22. (That was two longs and two shorts).

Never could figure out how you could tell that the call was going to be for "22" even before the first short ring?

Most of the rest of the party line were of my parents' age and I suspect they listened in on mother's conversations now and then. I didn't have any girl friends at the time (I was barely even a teenager) and so don't recall mysterious noises after I talked!

;D

SWR

[chuckinca]

Originally Posted by Boomer BeBack

OK. Just one this morning. Then I am logging off. Immediately. But I can't forget to ask this one.

Did any of you girls ever wear a feedsack dress?

In case you do not know about feedsack dresses, I am not talking about Boomer in Burlap.

Feedsacks were made of pretty printed cloth, calico I guess. My grandparents lived on a farm.

Did any of you girls ever have a cowgirl outfit, complete with 2 six-shooters and holsters? I did. It was a girly version of Hopalong Cassidy's outfit. It was black with lots of fringe. And, of course, I had a cowgirl hat, too.

So feedsack dresses? Cowgirl outfits complete with six-shooters? Hopalong Cassidy? Do our granddaughters have any idea what we are talking about?

Boomer

BBB:

There is a dairy in the Fresno area that sells milk with a Hopalong Cassidy picture on the carton. They must make some great milk if it last this long.

[chuckinca]

Originally Posted by Nonie

Chuck,

Im so embarrassed, :redface: my best friend lived in Logan square and my dad had his tailor shop there for many years but I must confess, I dont know what the Polish cannonball is :dontknow: can ya fill me in?

(I usta live near Logan Square when I was at Circle in the late 60's)

The Ell line that now runs to O'Hare airport used to end at the Logan Square Station (about 10 miles East of the airport). When they were extending the line to the airport and going thru startup and testing they had three or four accidents where the trains ran past designated stop locations and ran into the rear of the train in front or into something it wasn't supposed to hit. The Papers started calling the new line the Polish Cannonball (since the end of the old line was the Polish neighborhood of Logan Square)

[chuckinca]

Originally Posted by TomW

I remember when we had a PARTY LINE where 4 families shared one phone line. Each family had a different ring pattern (Long, two shorts) if the call was for your house. When we wanted to make a hole in a board, we used a BRACE and BIT. Has anyone had any hand cranked ice cream lately? That was the ony way we got ice cream years ago.

My grandmother's phone number in rural Indiana was two longs and a short.

We recently tried to give a hand crank ice cream machine to Goodwill and they wouldn't take it.

My maternal grandfather had a pay phone in his house. He had five daughters.

We had a Kelvinator that had a quarter pay machine attached - you want cold you pay a quarter a day.

[Hyacinth Bucket]

Hi I forgot about the party line. My main memory of that was all the fun we had. When we knew someone was listening we would start making up all these stories about people in the town, but never named a name.

They were referred to "as you know who" or something similar.

Remember the term "chewing the fat"?

HB

[Hyacinth Bucket]

Speaking of phones do you recall when the phone numbers started with words - Butterfield 8,

HB

[chuckinca]

"Hudson three two seven hundred Magickist Carpet the kiss of beauty" or so said the radio and TV jingles in Chicagoland in the mid 50's