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Title: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: vesta111 on January 23, 2011, 07:55:27 PM
As I was reading your topic on the Dump about old time stuff, it brought to mind somehow the bread boxes from the past and that naturally for me lead me far and away.

THE SENCE OF SMELL,

My great grandmother had an old 1920 or so bread box on legs that had some kind of metal liner.  When she knew I was coming for a visit she would put store bought cookies inside and this was the first place I would run to.  I was not after the cookies, I was after the glorious smell of pastries home made in the past that still lingered inside.

Looking back I am sure that it was the smell of things that shaped my memories.   The smell of knotty pine cabins after the winter, the smell of old camps just opened for the season.  Today the first cutting of grass and the smell, heck I could roll in it.

The smell of a storm coming up over salt water, the smells of the forest and a lake of fresh water under a blue sky.  The smell of gas and oil in a small boat from the outboarder motor.

Farms and the smell of manure spread on the fields, the smell of hay in the barns.  All so long gone.

Grapes, concord grapes just hanging out with no tending in the fall, and in the spring the smell of Lilacs bushes in full bloom.

Later in life the smell of baby oil and powder, the smell of a baby's body.  Then the God awful smell for the first diaper changes when the baby is feed Gerber meat----runs the dog out of the house.

  Books the Dusty old things that smell of leather and ancient glue, the pages have a mystical smell to them.

Frank have you any idea of what I speak of??
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: franksolich on January 23, 2011, 07:58:29 PM
Hell, vesta, madam, I see one of those metal bread-boxes--of the 1960s and 1970s sort; ours was actually stainless steel--all I smell is rust.
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: franksolich on January 23, 2011, 08:00:48 PM
Hell, vesta, madam, I see one of those metal bread-boxes--of the 1960s and 1970s sort; ours was actually stainless steel--all I smell is rust.

P.S.: I wouldn't keep a hamster in one of those things.
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: thundley4 on January 23, 2011, 08:31:37 PM
Vesta, what you are describing sounds more like a pie safe or cabinet.
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: Ballygrl on January 23, 2011, 09:03:44 PM
I always found they made the bread smell.
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on January 24, 2011, 10:19:13 AM
Is a bread box bigger than a vesta post?

 :whistling:
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: NHSparky on January 24, 2011, 11:26:01 AM
Is a bread box bigger than a vesta post?

 :whistling:

No, but most of vesta's posts look like a baby's arm holding an apple.
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: dandi on January 24, 2011, 02:32:38 PM
No, but most of vesta's posts look like a baby's arm holding an apple.

I was thinking more of the South end of a North bound Appaloosa....
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: Wineslob on January 25, 2011, 02:08:33 PM
Hell, vesta, madam, I see one of those metal bread-boxes--of the 1960s and 1970s sort; ours was actually stainless steel--all I smell is rust.

P.S.: I wouldn't keep a hamster in one of those things.


 :rotf:
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: debk on January 25, 2011, 03:44:11 PM
Vesta is talking about a pie safe...not one of the breadboxes that we had as kids Frank. They were those ugly aluminum things with the front that either lifted up or rolled back into the top. It didn't take long for them to rust either. Pie safes were usually out of oak with metal squares in the small framelike spaces on the front.

(http://www.visualpleasureantiques.com/piesafe.jpg)

Old iceboxes were similar, heavy oaken things with one cubby for ice and one or two others for the food.

(http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=421800378991&id=c8335fb96e7fee36af85d922773fa683&index=ch1)


To purchase one of these antiques these days...can be quite expensive.
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: zeitgeist on January 25, 2011, 04:45:32 PM
Vesta is talking about a pie safe...not one of the breadboxes that we had as kids Frank. They were those ugly aluminum things with the front that either lifted up or rolled back into the top. It didn't take long for them to rust either. Pie safes were usually out of oak with metal squares in the small framelike spaces on the front.

(http://www.visualpleasureantiques.com/piesafe.jpg)

Old iceboxes were similar, heavy oaken things with one cubby for ice and one or two others for the food.

(http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=421800378991&id=c8335fb96e7fee36af85d922773fa683&index=ch1)




To purchase one of these antiques these days...can be quite expensive.

I grew up on a farm with both those and one of these...

(http://husure.com/se10.jpg)


It is a Hoosier hutch for those who have never seen one.
Title: Re: Frank and bread boxes etc.
Post by: vesta111 on January 27, 2011, 08:56:56 AM
I grew up on a farm with both those and one of these...

(http://husure.com/se10.jpg)


It is a Hoosier hutch for those who have never seen one.


Wow what beautiful furniture, I am sure unless the home owner made these things themself, this was for the wealthy.

 I was given a desk and chair by a family moving with no room to take it.  Inside the draw was a metal plank that identified the desk as a desk used for telegraphers in the late 1800, The matching chair was one with wheels covered with brass plates.  I intrusted that to a member of my ex husband when I moved and never saw it again.  That desk and chair  could have been placed in a Museum but I received a check in the mail for $30.00.  :bawl: :bawl: