Odd-Ball Picture of the Day

Some guy in Massachusetts actually did that. Unfortunately, he got busted because the State cop noticed that she wore the same outfit every day.

 

Spenking of Texas, this is a postcard my dad sent to his mother in 1943.

 

From the clear & succinct address, Hillsboro IA must have been a very small town.....

 

Well Zip codes didn't exist until 1963

 

Pretty sure there were street addresses in those years.....


Reminds me of the point about crime in a small town.

Cop: "Mam, can you describe the perpetrator?"

Lady: "Yeah, it was Harold..."

 

https://clip.cafe/madagascar-2005/what-a-simple-bite-on-the-butt-among-friends/

 

They didn't live in town, although I doubt anyone used the town street addresses in the 40's. Population 200 in the 70's. My grandparents were one of about 50 or so rural addresses, the postman knew who lived where. My dad was the Hillsboro rural mail carrier in the 60's, there were 70 rural stops then.

 

Look at Hillsboro today, 84 years later, on a map. You'll understand. It may or may not have had electricity in 1937.

 

Address requirements for mailing things has become more stringent over the years. Right now you can use 9 digit zip codes and the post office prefers it, but few of us use it in our day to day lives. I can imagine a day a few decades down the road when someone will be surprised to learn that back in the 20's people could get away with 5 digit zip codes.

Of course by then there may be teleporters where you just key in a destination identification number and your package or letter gets beamed to its destination.

 

I'm afraid I haven't Hillsbothered......

 

Maybe.

 

I think you worded that wrong , it should be , your girl after taking a dump without wiping

 

Not oddball, truth.

 

That's Big Time there, they have two church

Probably not; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
My fathers youngest sister lives near Canton S.D., in a house built in the 1890's. In 1996 my folks, two of their grand sons and I replaced her (original R.E.A.) fuse panel with a circuit breaker panel.
The thing that made me smile was the fire alarm that we found in the top of the attic, while replacing the 'tube and post' wiring; It was a mechanical wind up alarm bell, triggered when the lead restraint melted.
We went so far to install outlets and lights (along with plumbing) UPSTAIRS ! Woo !

 

Mt wife's grand parents lived in Saladasburg, PA. I remember when they got central heating. They put the oil furnace smack dab in the middle of the living room. They didn't have plumbing yet so they still used chamber pots. Water flowed from the spring up on the mountainside down to the summer kitchen, drained out through the basement (ie root cellar). Her GF used to distill honey wine into what he called methligulm. Ran his still in the summer kitchen and used the spring water to cool the coils. That stuff would curl the hair in your nether regions.

 

When fracking started in PA, there really was no infrastructure for the worker's residential considerations in those rural locations. Realtors told the workers so and added, the best we can do is some houses from the '70s. Sounds good to me, they said. Ummm, that's 1870s. lol

 

I've been writing papers on the Belgians for a sponsor and that has absolutely killed me. Holy f@ck, perfect!