DDT was commonly applied in the house using a hand pumped sprayer. If a fly was the air near the table where you were eating it was not uncommon for someone to spray DDT at it. I can remember the taste of DDT from such sprays. […]
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Bamberg, South Carolina
Near Cope. Nursery rhyme was corrupted for us to be “ride a horse to Bamberg Cross” Recall being in a hardware store and seeing an electric train operating off a large dry cell battery. […]
Sister’s House Memories
Out house/chamber pots only for many years 2. Water came from a well with a hand pump for years 3. Had bell to ring to call workers in from fields for lunch 4. I picked some cotton there that I put into a crocus sack that hung from a strap over one soldier. 5. Listened […]
Chester, South Carolina Memories
Woodward grandparents lived on a farm (Craig Place?) that had no electricity Can recall waking at night at listening to a pendulum clock ticking Can recall kerosene lanterns as well. […]
North, South Carolina Memories
Had a sign as you entered North declaring it to be a bird sanctuary. My mother’s maiden name was Byrd so we thought that was humorous. 2. Butchering Hogs 1. Community event 2. Large black pots with fires beneath used to render the fat and cook intestines to be used for sausage casings 3. Had […]
Memories of University of South Carolina Campus
We lived in the horseshoe area of the campus at one point. That is all I remember. […]
Memories of Cope, South Carolina
Cannery 1. The high school across the road had a cannery for community use. 2. Some actually canned but most used Mason jars. 2. Snakes 1. Cars would routinely try to lock brakes on snakes crossing road, would back up to finish them off 3. Roads 1. Many not paved 2. Washboard roads would shake […]
Jobs in Florence
Paper routes All involved getting up at 5:30 am or so on Sunday, rest of days were afternoons I threw my papers while riding my bicycle down the street with papers in a large basket mounted on the handbars with struts to the axle of the front wheel. I can recall throwing a paper to […]
Pictures
I hated pictures and would often crawl under the house to avoid being in them. In some pictures, you can see the dirt on my knees which resulted from my crawling under the house. […]
March of Dimes
Polio was a constant fear in the summers. Some would not let their children go to a public pool to swim for fear of infection. Movie theaters regularly played an ad for March of Dimes Contributions. Different singers were featured singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” while a container was passed through the audience to collect […]
