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Old time country peddlers
Murf's post about Mr. Haney on Green Acres brought lots of memories from when I was growng up in rural Iowa. The Rawleighs man, Watkins man, Fuller Brush man, The fish peddler who showed up just before Lent. In the summer there were book salesmen who walked door to door selling encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc. then there were the tool salesmen who had everything from pliers to keystock. We weren't really loney at all out in the country back then. Most of these guys were just trying to make an living doing what they could, their arrival was welcomed and most all work stopped till they left. Some even took eggs, fresh, cream, butter, or fresh vegetables as some of the pay for their goods. Frank.
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Speaking of cloth, yes, my Mother used to buy "bolts",kinda oblong looking rools of cloth for you youngings who weren't privliged to have lived back then to make clothes from. I do remember her once trading some live chickens to the cloth, needle, thread, yarn, zipper and botton peddler, and that isn't half of the story, on his way down the road the back door came open on his old panel truck and the chickens got loose. And again on the subject of cloth, there were men of the cloth who walked around the country side in the summer selling bibles and religous items. I could go on, but I'm sure you all have long since tired of my ramblings, old men tend to do that you know. Frank.
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Up till about the mid 90's there was still a CenPeCo salesman and a tool salesman who would stop by the farm shop about twice a year. The tool guy would roll out a new welder, plug it in and let you have a go at it, he had everything from torch tips to cotter pins. All of the other oldtimers were gone by then. I think the cost of fullsize vans and the fuel they used finally put them out of business too. I was never a big enough fish for the Snap On type guys to drive out in the country for, but I used to visit their vans once in a while if I saw them stopped at a farm machinery dealership. Frank.
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I have one of those convex mirrors that makes me look tall and skinny. My Mother was a good cook amd I also married one so here I am, went from a 32 waist at 21 to a 46 at 66. I know I'm a heart attack waiting to happen, but the Mrs. still cooks like we have all them teenage kids at home yet, so I just can't stand to watch the dog eat my meat and taters. But in the real world that's a gain of 14 inches in circumfrence meaning I really am only 4.4 inches wider than I was at 21, so that means I only gained a tenth of an inch per year in diamater, that aint so bad. "Fatso", I mean Frank.
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EW; I'm not meaning to ignore you lately, but your comment about walking uphill to school both ways. "Oh Boy", you and all them other poor saps, we got to walk down hlll both ways, then we got a bus, "Flintstone Style" we walked and carried the bus. Sorry, but you should have grown up in Iowa. Frank.
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