The opening door

One door has closed. Another door opens.

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Tag: 1950s nostalgia

  • The Price is Weird

    Part I  ITEM: My family settled into a house in the 1950’s that featured three bedrooms, French doors with lead-glass panes separating dining from the first living room, a second living room, and electric scones around both. It had a semi-finished attic, a garage, and a tiny back yard. I don’t know what the down…

  • Daddy

    We lived in a half-duplex in West Hazleton, Pennsylvania until early February 1954. I think a large object in the cellar was a coal furnace, but our heat came from the kitchen cast-iron coal stove, and something called a “heat-o-lator” in the living room, which was some kind of coal firebox with a protective sheet…