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This is my handsome Dad in Glasgow, Scotland in 1953. He told me this was his ‘Tony Curtis’ hair style. He was trendy at age 21 and at nearly 82 now, he’s still trendy! 🙂 ~shared by @topsycurl333

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Plaid skirts! Here are my grandma (on the right) and her sister on Knott’s Island, North Carolina in the mid-1940’s.

They lived in a Civil War era farm house, which was torn down before I was born.
They lived in this house with no electricity or running water; they had an outhouse. The small, isolated island didn’t get any power at all until the mid 1930’s. The kids rode a small bus across a causeway into Virginia to go to school.

I have managed to keep a few small pieces of furniture and an old mirror that date back to the old house. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish it was still standing so I could see it! ~shared by @elizabethandrus

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ICE, ICE…! On this chilly winter day, here’s a story about a family who made ice their business. Stay warm out there, y’all. — This is my great grandfather A. Friedrich Ludwig standing in front of his ice plant in the 1930’s.
The modernization of the 1930’s saw the end of the natural lake cut ice business.
My great grandfather bought the Armour Meat Packing plant at 77 Brooklyn Street in Rockville, Connecticut and converted it into an ice manufacturing plant.

The plant was powered by a large electric motor that ran a Frick compressor. Ammonia was used as a cooling agent. A short time later, a huge Wolverine four cylinder Diesel engine was used as a power source, and the electric motor was converted into a generator so that my family could make it’s own electricity.
A three hundred foot well was drilled as a source for crystal clear water. With all these improvements, the plant could manufacture thirty tons of ice every twenty four hours. ~ shared by @ludwigdermaler

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