McGuffey Readers were a series of graded primers , including grade levels 1-6, widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and in homeschooling .
It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary . Since 1961 they have continued to sell at a rate of some 30,000 copies a year. No other textbook bearing a single person's name has come close to that mark.
Right on , Gunny. My grandmother had an ice box like that at her summer cottage. We loved when the horse=drawn ice-wagon came so we could get and suck on ice shards.
That's right. If you posted a photo it won't open for me, so I don't know what it shows. When I was young our milk was delivered in those bulbous top glass bottles, and there was always a little more cream than to fill the bulb. A spoon shaped like the one in the photo below was pressed down in the bottle, blocking the neck between the bulb and the rest of the bottle. The pure cream was then poured off, leaving just a little cream and the skim milk below.
Damn it. Many of the photos that are posted to these comments open automatically for me, but sometimes they just show a large blank space, like the one Petey just posted. It may be a video and I have little luck with those, especially YouTube since it's blocked here.
I didn't know that! I wonder if the needle moved around and damaged the records, or if some type of stabilizer was developed. Thank you for posting that!
The problem could have been solved simply with a gentle spring holding the arm down, but that probably would have ruined the sound, and for sure the record.
Most of them. I don't remember seeing McGuffey Readers in Canada. Now, who knows why is there a bulbous shape on the top of the old milk bottle?
And this...do you know what it is?
Right on , Gunny. My grandmother had an ice box like that at her summer cottage. We loved when the horse=drawn ice-wagon came so we could get and suck on ice shards.
I don't know for sure. But possibly there was a time when milk wasn't homogenized? So the cream always rose to the top?
If so, maybe that was to make it easier to collect the cream from the bottle for people who wanted to use pure cream for a recipe?
That's right. If you posted a photo it won't open for me, so I don't know what it shows. When I was young our milk was delivered in those bulbous top glass bottles, and there was always a little more cream than to fill the bulb. A spoon shaped like the one in the photo below was pressed down in the bottle, blocking the neck between the bulb and the rest of the bottle. The pure cream was then poured off, leaving just a little cream and the skim milk below.
Wow, you had a player piano. What fun!! You could pretend to be Scott Joplin.
Sorry.
Actually its a video:
LOL...Did she alternate between coffee and sucking on the straw, or just spit the cream into a container for later.
Have you any idea what you could sell that player piano for today?
Damn it. Many of the photos that are posted to these comments open automatically for me, but sometimes they just show a large blank space, like the one Petey just posted. It may be a video and I have little luck with those, especially YouTube since it's blocked here.
I've seen an icebox, because my grandmother kept her mother's as an antique piece of furniture.
As for the rest... the phone. lol
Also, I have a turn table from the late seventies. Maybe that counts... sort of, but not really.
It was a vid of Sgt Schultz from the Hogan's Heroes series : "I know nothing ! I see nothing" ...
J4T, Yeah, that's what I was thinking...and Krish did tag 40s, 50s and 60s... but I wanted to have something to say besides a phone and ice box.
Wow, a record player in a suitcase!
I didn't know that! I wonder if the needle moved around and damaged the records, or if some type of stabilizer was developed. Thank you for posting that!
The problem could have been solved simply with a gentle spring holding the arm down, but that probably would have ruined the sound, and for sure the record.