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? ?I don't think I was dreaming of a white Christmas in 1958, but this picture was taken about that time in front of our house on 2024 North st.? That's my mom's '54 Buick parked out front.? It was cold outside and not much different inside our house..seems like I was always cold back then.?
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We had a floor furnace and I can remember standing over it in my nightgown to get warm. I know of several people who have grid mark scars to prove they had a floor furnace. They must be illegal now.?
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On Dec 13, 2023, at 9:05?PM, John Fore <ruthlessrider64@...> wrote:
? ? ?I don't think I was dreaming of a white Christmas in 1958, but this picture was taken about that time in front of our house on 2024 North st.? That's my mom's '54 Buick parked out front.? It was cold outside and not much different inside our house..seems like I was always cold back then.?
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I had a floor furnace on North Emerson . I always jumped over it . Fell on my bottom once. Ouch ! I remember it being in a peculiar place right at the doorway from the living room to the kitchen. Just a small space to walk around it. This is a busy time of the year. This evening, I’m going to Moody Gardens in Galveston on a senior citizen trip to see the Christmas lights and have dinner at their buffet. I so love the lights, and the music . I’ll be going to Dallas to spend Christmas with my daughter and son-in-law. It’s always a happy place. My grandson who serves in the Air Force in Ohio, will be here for the holidays.Merry Christmas to all my classmates. May you find joy in the reason for the season– the birth of Christ. ?Linda Scott Waller.
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On Dec 14, 2023, at 9:16?AM, Mary Couch <muskogeetraveler@...> wrote:
? We had a floor furnace and I can remember standing over it in my nightgown to get warm. I know of several people who have grid mark scars to prove they had a floor furnace. They must be illegal now.? On Dec 13, 2023, at 9:05?PM, John Fore <ruthlessrider64@...> wrote:
? ? ?I don't think I was dreaming of a white Christmas in 1958, but this picture was taken about that time in front of our house on 2024 North st.? That's my mom's '54 Buick parked out front.? It was cold outside and not much different inside our house..seems like I was always cold back then.?
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I remember having a floor furnace in the hall of our house on Colorado Street before we moved to Douglas Drive in 1951.?
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On Dec 14, 2023, at 9:37?AM, Linda Waller <Waller-Linda@...> wrote:
? I had a floor furnace on North Emerson . I always jumped over it . Fell on my bottom once. Ouch ! I remember it being in a peculiar place right at the doorway from the living room to the kitchen. Just a small space to walk around it. This is a busy time of the year. This evening, I’m going to Moody Gardens in Galveston on a senior citizen trip to see the Christmas lights and have dinner at their buffet. I so love the lights, and the music . I’ll be going to Dallas to spend Christmas with my daughter and son-in-law. It’s always a happy place. My grandson who serves in the Air Force in Ohio, will be here for the holidays.Merry Christmas to all my classmates. May you find joy in the reason for the season– the birth of Christ. ?Linda Scott Waller. On Dec 14, 2023, at 9:16?AM, Mary Couch <muskogeetraveler@...> wrote:
? We had a floor furnace and I can remember standing over it in my nightgown to get warm. I know of several people who have grid mark scars to prove they had a floor furnace. They must be illegal now.? On Dec 13, 2023, at 9:05?PM, John Fore <ruthlessrider64@...> wrote:
? ? ?I don't think I was dreaming of a white Christmas in 1958, but this picture was taken about that time in front of our house on 2024 North st.? That's my mom's '54 Buick parked out front.? It was cold outside and not much different inside our house..seems like I was always cold back then.?
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I Google it and it said it hasn't snowed on Christmas? day since wwll ln San Angelo.
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Well Google was not around in 1958..aaaah but I? was,? and pictures tell a thousand words..or so I've heard.
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Well I lived 5 blocks from you on Webster and do not remember it snowing on Christmas day and if the date is not written on the picture, who knows what the date really was and not worth a thousand words.
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Well you can't deny that it's a good picture.
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Yes it is a great picture. I check the history from the weather station and the low for that day was 35 at 7am and high at 3 pm was 61 and no prediction. It was a pretty? Christmas? day.
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We had a floor furnace in the living room at the house on Harrison.? After my mother passed away in 2008, a lady was setting up for a tag sale of contents before the house would be put up for sale.? She put a sofa over the floor furnace (this was January, I
believe).? She must not have been familiar with them; didn't realize there was a pilot light and that the burner would come on when it got cold.
Someone going by the house early one morning saw smoke coming out near the roof line.? The sofa was smoldering and the whole house and contents ended up with smoke and water damage.? Very disappointing!? But at least no one was injured . . .?
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I remember having a floor furnace in the hall of our house on Colorado Street before we moved to Douglas Drive in 1951.?
On Dec 14, 2023, at 9:37?AM, Linda Waller <Waller-Linda@...> wrote:
?I had a floor furnace on North Emerson . I always jumped over it . Fell on my bottom once. Ouch ! I remember it being in a peculiar place right at the doorway from the living room to the kitchen. Just a small space to walk around it.
This is a busy time of the year. This evening, I’m going to Moody Gardens in Galveston on a senior citizen trip to see the Christmas lights and have dinner at their buffet. I so love the lights, and the music . I’ll be going to Dallas to spend Christmas
with my daughter and son-in-law. It’s always a happy place. My grandson who serves in the Air Force in Ohio, will be here for the holidays.Merry Christmas to all my classmates. May you find joy in the reason for the season– the birth of Christ. ?Linda Scott
Waller.
On Dec 14, 2023, at 9:16?AM, Mary Couch <muskogeetraveler@...> wrote:
?We had a floor furnace and I can remember standing over it in my nightgown to get warm. I know of several people who have grid mark scars to prove they had a floor furnace. They must be illegal now.?
On Dec 13, 2023, at 9:05?PM, John Fore <ruthlessrider64@...> wrote:
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? ?I don't think I was dreaming of a white Christmas in 1958, but this picture was taken about that time in front of our house on 2024 North st.? That's my mom's '54 Buick parked out front.? It was cold outside and not much different inside
our house..seems like I was always cold back then.?
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That picture was taken from a 35mm slide. My dad always took pictures and had slides made. The box of Christmas reunion slides were marked 1958. We had moved to that location in December of 1957 from the house dad had built at 2213 North st. So my recollections may not be exact, but closely mark recollections that I remember. If it never snows on Christmas day, I don't think that would because of global warming, but for the youngsters..I hope it does snow this year.? ? ?Merry Christmas to all who read this post.
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We had a floor furnace in the living room of our house on Coleman when I was a kid. I loved standing on the grid (with shoes on) when I was changing from my PJs to school clothes on cold winter mornings. One casualty, though, was my sister, Barbara who is 8 years younger than me. I had picked her up while standing on the floor furnace and was attempting to flip her over and off the furnace when I dropped her, and her cheek hit the grid. She still has a scar from that incident, but it has faded a lot over the years, and she's not as mad at me about it now!
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 4:08 PM Gloria Sturm < gmsturm@...> wrote:
We had a floor furnace in the living room at the house on Harrison.? After my mother passed away in 2008, a lady was setting up for a tag sale of contents before the house would be put up for sale.? She put a sofa over the floor furnace (this was January, I
believe).? She must not have been familiar with them; didn't realize there was a pilot light and that the burner would come on when it got cold.
Someone going by the house early one morning saw smoke coming out near the roof line.? The sofa was smoldering and the whole house and contents ended up with smoke and water damage.? Very disappointing!? But at least no one was injured . . .?
I remember having a floor furnace in the hall of our house on Colorado Street before we moved to Douglas Drive in 1951.?
?I had a floor furnace on North Emerson . I always jumped over it . Fell on my bottom once. Ouch ! I remember it being in a peculiar place right at the doorway from the living room to the kitchen. Just a small space to walk around it.
This is a busy time of the year. This evening, I’m going to Moody Gardens in Galveston on a senior citizen trip to see the Christmas lights and have dinner at their buffet. I so love the lights, and the music . I’ll be going to Dallas to spend Christmas
with my daughter and son-in-law. It’s always a happy place. My grandson who serves in the Air Force in Ohio, will be here for the holidays.Merry Christmas to all my classmates. May you find joy in the reason for the season– the birth of Christ.? Linda Scott
Waller.
?We had a floor furnace and I can remember standing over it in my nightgown to get warm. I know of several people who have grid mark scars to prove they had a floor furnace. They must be illegal now.?
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? ?I don't think I was dreaming of a white Christmas in 1958, but this picture was taken about that time in front of our house on 2024 North st.? That's my mom's '54 Buick parked out front.? It was cold outside and not much different inside
our house..seems like I was always cold back then.?
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In the old house on Preusser St., we had gas stoves in all the rooms but the dining room. Since it was between the living room and kitchen, with French doors open between the two rooms, it stayed warm, especially when Mama had the gas cook stove going. I know that on many a cold morning, I would hold my pants in front of the stove to warm them up before putting them on. Since that old house was pier and beam construction, the wind in the crawl space always kept the floors pretty cold. Daddy put corrugated tin all the way around the house to keep the floors a little warmer. I guess growing up the way we did, made us all a little tougher so we could handle the lives we have lived.
John T. Herman 210-396-1974
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
Don't wait for Congress to set term limits, vote them out after two terms. NOTE TO ALL: Remember to BCC email and protect your friends from hackers if you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history, which includes my email address! It is a courtesy to me and others who may not wish to have their email addresses sent all over the world! Erasing the history helps prevent Spammers from mining addresses and viruses from being propagated. THANK YOU!
On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 05:27:30 PM CST, Marsha Kinlaw <mbk1146@...> wrote:
We had a floor furnace in the living room of our house on Coleman when I was a kid. I loved standing on the grid (with shoes on) when I was changing from my PJs to school clothes on cold winter mornings. One casualty, though, was my sister, Barbara who is 8 years younger than me. I had picked her up while standing on the floor furnace and was attempting to flip her over and off the furnace when I dropped her, and her cheek hit the grid. She still has a scar from that incident, but it has faded a lot over the years, and she's not as mad at me about it now!
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 4:08 PM Gloria Sturm < gmsturm@...> wrote:
We had a floor furnace in the living room at the house on Harrison.? After my mother passed away in 2008, a lady was setting up for a tag sale of contents before the house would be put up for sale.? She put a sofa over the floor furnace (this was January, I
believe).? She must not have been familiar with them; didn't realize there was a pilot light and that the burner would come on when it got cold.
Someone going by the house early one morning saw smoke coming out near the roof line.? The sofa was smoldering and the whole house and contents ended up with smoke and water damage.? Very disappointing!? But at least no one was injured . . .?
I remember having a floor furnace in the hall of our house on Colorado Street before we moved to Douglas Drive in 1951.?
?I had a floor furnace on North Emerson . I always jumped over it . Fell on my bottom once. Ouch ! I remember it being in a peculiar place right at the doorway from the living room to the kitchen. Just a small space to walk around it.
This is a busy time of the year. This evening, I’m going to Moody Gardens in Galveston on a senior citizen trip to see the Christmas lights and have dinner at their buffet. I so love the lights, and the music . I’ll be going to Dallas to spend Christmas
with my daughter and son-in-law. It’s always a happy place. My grandson who serves in the Air Force in Ohio, will be here for the holidays.Merry Christmas to all my classmates. May you find joy in the reason for the season– the birth of Christ.? Linda Scott
Waller.
?We had a floor furnace and I can remember standing over it in my nightgown to get warm. I know of several people who have grid mark scars to prove they had a floor furnace. They must be illegal now.?
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? ?I don't think I was dreaming of a white Christmas in 1958, but this picture was taken about that time in front of our house on 2024 North st.? That's my mom's '54 Buick parked out front.? It was cold outside and not much different inside
our house..seems like I was always cold back then.?
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Kind of interesting to see the street names again. ?We lived on Preusser St. awhile as well as N. Emerson, that Linda mentioned earlier. Numerous other streets as well.
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On Dec 14, 2023, at 9:10?PM, John T. Herman via groups.io <hardhatherman@...> wrote:
? In the old house on Preusser St., we had gas stoves in all the rooms but the dining room. Since it was between the living room and kitchen, with French doors open between the two rooms, it stayed warm, especially when Mama had the gas cook stove going. I know that on many a cold morning, I would hold my pants in front of the stove to warm them up before putting them on. Since that old house was pier and beam construction, the wind in the crawl space always kept the floors pretty cold. Daddy put corrugated tin all the way around the house to keep the floors a little warmer. I guess growing up the way we did, made us all a little tougher so we could handle the lives we have lived.
John T. Herman 210-396-1974
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
Don't wait for Congress to set term limits, vote them out after two terms. NOTE TO ALL: Remember to BCC email and protect your friends from hackers if you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history, which includes my email address! It is a courtesy to me and others who may not wish to have their email addresses sent all over the world! Erasing the history helps prevent Spammers from mining addresses and viruses from being propagated. THANK YOU!
On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 05:27:30 PM CST, Marsha Kinlaw <mbk1146@...> wrote:
We had a floor furnace in the living room of our house on Coleman when I was a kid. I loved standing on the grid (with shoes on) when I was changing from my PJs to school clothes on cold winter mornings. One casualty, though, was my sister, Barbara who is 8 years younger than me. I had picked her up while standing on the floor furnace and was attempting to flip her over and off the furnace when I dropped her, and her cheek hit the grid. She still has a scar from that incident, but it has faded a lot over the years, and she's not as mad at me about it now! On Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 4:08 PM Gloria Sturm < gmsturm@...> wrote:
We had a floor furnace in the living room at the house on Harrison.? After my mother passed away in 2008, a lady was setting up for a tag sale of contents before the house would be put up for sale.? She put a sofa over the floor furnace (this was January, I
believe).? She must not have been familiar with them; didn't realize there was a pilot light and that the burner would come on when it got cold.
Someone going by the house early one morning saw smoke coming out near the roof line.? The sofa was smoldering and the whole house and contents ended up with smoke and water damage.? Very disappointing!? But at least no one was injured . . .?
I remember having a floor furnace in the hall of our house on Colorado Street before we moved to Douglas Drive in 1951.?
?I had a floor furnace on North Emerson . I always jumped over it . Fell on my bottom once. Ouch ! I remember it being in a peculiar place right at the doorway from the living room to the kitchen. Just a small space to walk around it.
This is a busy time of the year. This evening, I’m going to Moody Gardens in Galveston on a senior citizen trip to see the Christmas lights and have dinner at their buffet. I so love the lights, and the music . I’ll be going to Dallas to spend Christmas
with my daughter and son-in-law. It’s always a happy place. My grandson who serves in the Air Force in Ohio, will be here for the holidays.Merry Christmas to all my classmates. May you find joy in the reason for the season– the birth of Christ.? Linda Scott
Waller.
?We had a floor furnace and I can remember standing over it in my nightgown to get warm. I know of several people who have grid mark scars to prove they had a floor furnace. They must be illegal now.?
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? ?I don't think I was dreaming of a white Christmas in 1958, but this picture was taken about that time in front of our house on 2024 North st.? That's my mom's '54 Buick parked out front.? It was cold outside and not much different inside
our house..seems like I was always cold back then.?
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Mary Ann
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Living on Koberlin Street, growing up, we, too, had a floor furnace in the living room and I remember getting dressed many mornings right there by the furnace as my bedroom was in the back of the house, and we always kept windows open a bit for safety. I would also stand over it just to get warm at various times. I wouldn’t trade my life as a child and teenager for something more luxurious.
I may have told y’all that John Herman‘s sister lived next-door to us for a while, and John would come over to visit her. Somehow he instigated fun and the neighborhood kids would come out and we would play old-fashioned games like red rover, red rover, come over. I have many fond memories of that. Thanks, John!
Barbara Scott Hudgens
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Barbara, I do remember those days. We did have fun and there was always a bunch of kids involved. Now that I think about it, I don't remember there ever being an argument or a fight amongst that whole group of kids. We just wanted to have fun. Thank you for the reminder.
John T. Herman 210-396-1974
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
Don't wait for Congress to set term limits, vote them out after two terms. NOTE TO ALL: Remember to BCC email and protect your friends from hackers if you forward this email, please delete the forwarding history, which includes my email address! It is a courtesy to me and others who may not wish to have their email addresses sent all over the world! Erasing the history helps prevent Spammers from mining addresses and viruses from being propagated. THANK YOU!
On Friday, December 15, 2023 at 01:56:08 PM CST, barbara hudgens <barbara.hudgens64@...> wrote:
Living on Koberlin Street, growing up, we, too, had a floor furnace in the living room and I remember getting dressed many mornings right there by the furnace as my bedroom was in the back of the house, and we always kept windows open a bit for safety. I would also stand over it just to get warm at various times. I wouldn’t trade my life as a child and teenager for something more luxurious.
I may have told y’all that John Herman‘s sister lived next-door to us for a while, and John would come over to visit her. Somehow he instigated fun and the neighborhood kids would come out and we would play old-fashioned games like red rover, red rover, come over. I have many fond memories of that. Thanks, John!
Barbara Scott Hudgens
-- John T. Herman 210-396-1974
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In the jungles of West Angelo, arguing and fighting WAS fun. We
buried the hatchet on Christmas Eve but exhumed it on Jan. 2.
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On 12/15/2023 8:06 PM, John T. Herman
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Barbara,
I
do remember those days. We did have fun and there was
always a bunch of kids involved.
Now
that I think about it, I don't remember there ever being
an argument or a fight amongst that whole group of kids.
We just wanted to have fun.
Thank
you for the reminder.
John T. Herman
210-396-1974
Live simply. Love
generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to
God.
Don't wait for Congress to
set term limits, vote them out after two terms.
NOTE TO ALL: Remember
to BCC email and protect your friends from hackers if
you forward this email, please delete the forwarding
history, which includes my email address! It
is a courtesy to me and others who may not wish to
have their email addresses sent all over the world!
Erasing the history helps prevent Spammers from
mining addresses and viruses from being propagated.
THANK YOU!
Living on Koberlin Street, growing up, we,
too, had a floor furnace in the living room and I remember
getting dressed many mornings right there by the furnace
as my bedroom was in the back of the house, and we always
kept windows open a bit for safety. I would also stand
over it just to get warm at various times. I wouldn’t
trade my life as a child and teenager for something more
luxurious.
I may have told y’all that John Herman‘s
sister lived next-door to us for a while, and John would
come over to visit her. Somehow he instigated fun and the
neighborhood kids would come out and we would play
old-fashioned games like red rover, red rover, come over.
I have many fond memories of that. Thanks, John!
Barbara Scott Hudgens
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John T. Herman
210-396-1974
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