what did your house look like when you were growing up.....?

Question

did you have TV, indoor bathroom,radio,.tell me.

Answer 1

Old cold and massive, it was the Dower house to Balhousie Castle. It had huge rooms and yes it had 2 bathrooms, a huge old valve wireless and a weird TV set that had a mind of its own. In the kitchen was this massive range that took up half the wall, I remember my mum grumbling like fury when she had to clean it. There was big fire places in every room, and I could ride my bike round in the hall. There was a super big stair Bannister for sliding down too.There was about 3 acres of garden and several out houses. At dinner time my nan had to ring a bell to call us in as her voice didn't carry far enough.

Answer 2

We didnt have a tv until I was 12 and then it was only a 10" screen. We had a big magnifying glass in front of it. We always had a radio and would sit around it like we were afraid to miss one word. Somehow "The Shadow" and "Grand Central Station" was more alive than most tv shows are today. Our imaginations are wonderful. We always had an indoor bathroom. One of them had a little pot bellied stove in it to warm us on winter nights. It made it a little tricky turning around. If you gauged it wrong, you could get a mean burn you know where. I remember most of the activity took place in the kitchen. We only used the living room and dining room when we had guests. We did have an icebox and we had ice delivered once a week. Everything was delivered and usually by a horse drawn wagon. We lived in Philadelphia and there were stables all over the city for those horses. I wonder what happened to those horses and the stables.

Answer 3

http://members.fortunecity.com/northsider/coming.html

My father built the house out of lumber and creosote logs he got from where he worked at a creosote plant.

Go through the front door and you were in the living room, my sisters bedroom was to the right hand side. A large open doorway led from the living room to the dining room. In the dining room, my parent's bedroom was on the right hand side. On the left hand side was an open doorway to the kitchen, which like so many kitchens back then was large, big double sink. From the kitchen, the backdoor opened to the backporch where the old ringer washing machine sat.

Back in the dining room, in front of the doorway leading from the living room was another open doorway which led to a little hall. On the left hand side on that hall was the bathroom and on the right hand side was my room.

In the dining room there was a table, not the dining table, with a metal surface that I used to draw on with a pencil.

We got a television in 1952 when I was six years old. It used to sat in the living room, in at least two different locations as best I remember. Don't remember a radio. There was a "record player" that played those old "78s."

I only faintly remember not having an indoor bathroom. I know that we must not have had one, because we used "chamber pots" at night. The old "outhouse" set in back.

No A/C. This was Florida - late forties, early fifties. It was hot, but we were used to it. We did have a heater. I am pretty sure it was oil and sat in the living room.

We moved from that house when I was nine.

Answer 4

Didn't live in a House, we live in a flat. It was actually a two bedroom, front room, dining room. kitchen, 1 bathroom, and a sunroom-laundry room off the kitchen area. We lived on the second floor of a two story flat. Our landlady live downstairs in her flat. We had a back yard, and a full two car garage. There was also a full attic, and you had to climb narrow steps off my parents bedroom to get up there. It ran the full lenth of the flat.
It eventulally became some of my brothers bedroom. Yes we did have the old console TV, black and white, and an old radio with turntable, that I used to listen to all the time. We did not have A/C at all, and we used to have gas ceramic type heater in the front room, Which looked like a false fireplace. that was used to heat the whole flat, until they later installed a central heater unit. The kitchen used to have a seperate sink, and cabinets, with 2 p;antry doors, until they later remodeled it and tore out the pantry area, added a new window, and ugly copper colored metal cabinets with a red formica like counter top. I keep saying I want to go back inside and take a look at what it looks like now. See haw things have changed and remember how things were. Except it's a long haul. There are 2 flights of stairs on the outside with one landing, Then once you get inside the front door there is another long flight of stairs

Answer 5

I am an octogenerian now. Radio first appeared on the scene when I was around ten. Even if electricity had reached our town it has not illuminated even the streets which had kerosene lamps.Domestic connections was still a luxury.Radio was a luxury and we used to stand outside houses with it listening to music.The broadcasting was also limited onto to a few hours in the morning(upto 9 am) and in the evening to 10pm.I remember one Hindi song frequently coming then Zaalee prabhat zaali, uth,uth,Hindmaliee re...'TV came much,much later namely when I was middle-aged and the service was also not round the clock.It ended at l0 p.m. Moreover TV was a luxury then I remember when we purchased a tv every saturaday and sunday evening our house was crowded with neighbourers for seeing pictures broadcast. If we had to be out for some reason we had to leave the house open entrusting it to the care of the next door neighbourer On these two evenings the strees were deserted and the traffic police relaxed..There was a single broadcasting station and we willy-nilly had to gulp down whatever fare it served.However, I sometimes recall those days or rather nights which were calm and quite after 10.pm.Radio transistors arrived very late and were mostly imported and exhibited proudly. Even in childhood we had a spacious room for bath but not so well-tiled etc.but the preference was for open air bath at the house well.Hotels were very few and generally it was considered taboo to visit them.Railway had just reached our town and I remember villagers breaking cocoanut onthe rail line in front of the steam engine and praying the engine driver who was mostly a white man or a Parsee to lead them safely . Life did not have so many diversions as of now but the pace was comfortable.

Answer 6

Battery radio when Pop was home so we could hook it to the car, Outhouse and if you live in New England in the winter hell is not worm, but cold. Lets see, well in the back yard, far from the outhouse. Prime the pump with with hot water. Be sure the two water buckets are filled at night and brake the ice off before washing your face in the morning. Take your clothing into bed so you can get dressed under the covers because there is frost on the INSIDE of the windows. Ignorance is bliss. Actually then it was a fun childhood. In retrospect, well we survived and thrived so it must have worked.

Answer 7

While in Europe we lived with an Italian family in a stone house...indoor plumbing, bath...radio only....this was in the mid, late 40's. In the 50's we had a single family home - indoor everything - new construction - 'Levitttown' type ranch house...radio and no TV until 1952....first one we had was a Stromberg Carlson that blew up! LOL..then an Admiral.

As a teen we were back in Europe and llived in a ranch style duplex....had everything except TV - I lived in a residential dorm at my high school...and all we had was a radio and a 45 record player

Answer 8

I grew up in Chicago and lived in different apartment buildings. We had TV but a tiny screen and a huge box. I just remember fights on Saturday nights and then Uncle Miltie would come on. We had indoor plumbing, I am not sure about the radio. I played outside a lot, there were street lights that had really fancy bottom portions that I used to climb up.

The first apartment was when I was born and lived there until my parents divorced. I don't remember much except that I slept with my grandmother and wet the bed.

2nd One was brick with a sun room and lots of kids to play with

3rd was the penthouse of a huge glass building. I was afraid to walk past the windows for fear of falling It was neat though, there wa a grocery store in it, a dry cleaners and a whole floor of washing machines and dryers My mother some How chose white for the carpets and furniture, not good when you have kids and cats but the park was across the street and I could go to the zoo on the bus

Then we moved to FL...............big house on the lake, lots of hurricanes

Answer 9

It was a cold-water apartment in a tenament development in Brooklyn New York. We had indoor bathrooms, but no hot water. We had to use a separate group laundry room and shower facility. The one prized radio in our apartment was the one my father bought for my 10th birthday. It was a Grundig V-60 shortwave receiver and brought the entire world to my ears. We had a small black and white TV beginning in the mid-1950s.
I returned to that area in June of 2001. The entire development had been renovated and the place looked better than when I lived there. The odd connection to my father's purchase of that radio (worthy of an episode of "The Twilight Zone") happened shortly thereafter. He bought it in an area of lower Manhattan which was known as "Radio Row" for the large number of electronic stores and suppliers. The Port Authority later had all of those stores displaced so they could build two huge skyscrapers on the site: the World Trade Center!

Answer 10

Had a halicrafter radio that picked stuff all over the world and airplanes to. No TV, Bathroom out back. no running water, had to go to the well for it. The house was a brown clapboard structure built by a mining company. Roomy but cold . Wood and coal heat.