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Post by greyhoundman on Jan 20, 2007 18:01:26 GMT -5
Found this while looking for some other pictures. I lived in this place for 2.5 years, while I cut mine timbers for the coal mines. It was about 5 miles west of Middlesboro, KY.  Ratty P&S camera, film unknown. |
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Post by herron on Jan 20, 2007 20:55:21 GMT -5
Looks a lot like the original home I remember my grandparents living in when I was a kid. They were in Tennessee. Their car wasn't as nice, though. I remember a rusty old 1948 Willys pickup truck (the newest car my grandfather ever had was a 1951 Chevy 1-ton stake truck). Sadly, I don't have a picture of the original place (or maybe that's a good thing  ). When I was 17 (in 1965) I went there in the summer and helped my grandfather tear it down and start building the little brick house that replaced it on the same spot. We had the foundation, the subflooring and wall studs erected when I had to return home to Michigan. One of my uncles and a cousin helped him finish the rest of it, before he hired a bricklayer friend to set the bricks. I remember my grandmother was really proud of it. It was the first time they had indoor plumbing! My grandparents continued living there the rest of their lives. My grandfather died there in 1991 (at age 92). |
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Post by lulalake on May 18, 2007 14:51:58 GMT -5
Looks a lot like the original home I remember my grandparents living in when I was a kid. They were in Tennessee. Their car wasn't as nice, though. I remember a rusty old 1948 Willys pickup truck (the newest car my grandfather ever had was a 1951 Chevy 1-ton stake truck). Sadly, I don't have a picture of the original place (or maybe that's a good thing ). When I was 17 (in 1965) I went there in the summer and helped my grandfather tear it down and start building the little brick house that replaced it on the same spot. We had the foundation, the subflooring and wall studs erected when I had to return home to Michigan. One of my uncles and a cousin helped him finish the rest of it, before he hired a bricklayer friend to set the bricks. I remember my grandmother was really proud of it. It was the first time they had indoor plumbing! My grandparents continued living there the rest of their lives. My grandfather died there in 1991 (at age 92). Ron, Where was that in Tennesee? I grew up around Chattanooga. Jules |
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Post by nikonbob on May 18, 2007 16:02:21 GMT -5
Great find right down to the rocker on the porch.
Bob
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Post by doubs43 on May 18, 2007 18:15:56 GMT -5
This is where I spent the first 9 years of my life. While the exterior was in better condition than this shows, there was no running water or indoor plumbing and the only heat came from a wood burning cookstove and a kerosene stove in the living room in the evenings. Single pane windows and no insulation in the walls. It was a cold walk to the outhouse some 50 yards distance in Winter! The top left end window was my bedroom. From the side of the building to the main line of the B&O Railroad tracks was less than 30 feet.  Walker |
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Post by herron on May 18, 2007 22:50:06 GMT -5
Looks a lot like the original home I remember my grandparents living in when I was a kid. They were in Tennessee. Their car wasn't as nice, though. I remember a rusty old 1948 Willys pickup truck (the newest car my grandfather ever had was a 1951 Chevy 1-ton stake truck). Sadly, I don't have a picture of the original place (or maybe that's a good thing ). When I was 17 (in 1965) I went there in the summer and helped my grandfather tear it down and start building the little brick house that replaced it on the same spot. We had the foundation, the subflooring and wall studs erected when I had to return home to Michigan. One of my uncles and a cousin helped him finish the rest of it, before he hired a bricklayer friend to set the bricks. I remember my grandmother was really proud of it. It was the first time they had indoor plumbing! My grandparents continued living there the rest of their lives. My grandfather died there in 1991 (at age 92). Ron, Where was that in Tennesee? I grew up around Chattanooga. Jules Cousin Jules!  Mid state. Little town called Baxter...not all that far from Cookeville (home of Tennesse Tech).  |
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Post by kiev4a on May 20, 2007 18:48:08 GMT -5
Here's the house where I spent my first 18 years. Had a flat roof originally which I barely remember. About 1951 dad put on a sloped aluminum roof. House is still standing today and looks much the same as the second picture. Big difference is the 40 acres of farmland that originally went with the house now is covered with mini mansions on five-acre plots. The gravel road that was in front of the house when I was a kid is now a four-lane highway. Wayne  |
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Post by John Parry on May 21, 2007 6:18:27 GMT -5
Wayne - I was wondering what that thing on the roof of the first picture was. Then it came to me - "Of course! - its a still" You backwoods boys take authenticity seriously!!
Regards - John
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Post by kiev4a on May 21, 2007 8:27:53 GMT -5
Wayne - I was wondering what that thing on the roof of the first picture was. Then it came to me - "Of course! - its a still" You backwoods boys take authenticity seriously!! Regards - John Sorry to dash your dreams John but it's just a tin chimney. Besides where I lived there weren't any woods--just sagebrush. Wayne |
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Post by John Parry on May 21, 2007 17:06:18 GMT -5
Only joking Wayne - but you had a still somewhere?
Regards - John
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Post by kiev4a on May 21, 2007 17:10:51 GMT -5
Nope. No still that I know of in this part of the country. Those Ridgerunners down South were the folks who knew all about stills
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Post by greyhoundman on May 21, 2007 17:18:39 GMT -5
Yep. I started by hauling water for my granddad's still. Now I can build and run one in a jiffy. You can even make one to use on the kitchen stove.  |
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Post by John Parry on May 21, 2007 17:43:42 GMT -5
Way to go G'man!
I worked over in N Ireland for a time. Once in a while we amnaged to get hold of some poteen (always in Vodka bottles, strangely enough). It wasn't really fit for human consumption, but it made the best Irish coffee in the world!. Same out in Saudi. We used to get people coming out from the US and UK to 'dry out', as SA was 'dry'. Not a hope. Thing was - everything you got there was about 5 times as strong as you'd get anywhere else. Nearly damaged my liver.....
Regards - John
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). When I was 17 (in 1965) I went there in the summer and helped my grandfather tear it down and start building the little brick house that replaced it on the same spot. We had the foundation, the subflooring and wall studs erected when I had to return home to Michigan. One of my uncles and a cousin helped him finish the rest of it, before he hired a bricklayer friend to set the bricks. I remember my grandmother was really proud of it. It was the first time they had indoor plumbing!
