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                Lost Resources For Daily Living

 

 

In our exploration of Terre Haute, Indiana during the summer of 1926, we've made a number of discoveries. Some of these discoveries are directly related to quality of life issues; that is,

how time is happily and consciously spent. Often, these discoveries stand in stark contrast to approaches provided by technology for entertainment, information gathering, and task completion. These strategies and approaches often take more time, require more physical effort, and demand more conscious participation. But the rewards inherent in them are real. They may in fact encourage a closer connection with nature, our fellow human beings, and the experience of being alive.

 

One advantage of discovering these resources from the recent past is that we often retain a memory of their effectiveness. Though these resources are at times challenging to locate or replicate in today's world, they are almost always available. It remains our choice as to whether we employ them in our lives.

 

                                                                             Tom Roznowski

 

 

 

Canning and preserving homegrown vegetables and fruits

Glass milk and soda bottles

The smell of burning autumn leaves

The World Series heard on the radio

Walking home from school

A one-speed bicycle

Outdoor roller skates

Sleds and toboggans

Paper road maps

Names for hi-ways (ex. US Route 41 as the Dixie Bee Line)

Electric mass transit

Ornate lampposts

Awnings

Skylights

Windows that open

Cigar boxes for storage

Board games

Jigsaw puzzles

Shining shoes

Homebaked pies and pastries

Steamship crossings of the Atlantic/Pacific

Travel stickers

Steamer trunk

Aprons

High School and College yearbooks

Letter Sweaters

Class rings

Window boxes

Latin names for buildings

Public statues

Fountains

Stargazing

Shade trees

Literature

Linen tablecloths

Wooden tennis racquets and golf clubs

Baritone saxophones

Nicknames

Large breakfast

Enamel pots

Tomatoes with salt

Barbershops

Shaving with razors

Draperies

Venetian blinds

Tearooms

Women's dress gloves

Handkerchiefs

Wooden rulers

Pencils

Advertising calendar

Department store

Five and Ten Cent Store

Store window displays

Afternoon newspaper

Crossword puzzle

Old Hickory Furniture

Screened porch

Manuel typewriter

Eggbeater

Lollypops

Chewing Gum

Taffy

Hard candy

Tin cans

Passenger trains

Boarding houses

Door to door salespersons

Bachelor's wardrobe

Brass bed

Boar bristle hairbrush

Library reading rooms

Busts of ancient philosophers and authors

Stained glass

Porterhouse steak

Horseradish

Jellybeans

Wooden screen doors

Hopscotch

Tag

Hide and Seek

Jump rope

Jacks

Tatting lace

Sheet music for piano

Front porch conversations

Suspenders

Pinochle

Tree houses

Hanging old license plates in garage

Three speed column transmission

AM radio signal from far away city

Fedoras

Banded collar shirts

Union suits

Pocket watch

Butter

Bathtubs

Kites

Medicinal tonics

Postcards

Phone booths

Fresh flowers in a vase

Mending clothes

Darning socks

Summer dresses

Coins

Steam whistles

Piggy bank

Turnips

Scrub board

Bluing

Pipe tobacco

Corncob pipe

Bluebirds

Canaries

Fishbowls

Shoe repair

Hand wound wristwatch

Hand wound alarm clock

Grandfather clock

Mantle clock

Piano scarf

Clapboard houses

Mahjong

A bowl of soup

Walking places

Birdhouses

Yo-yo

Spinning top

Overcoat

Vest

Liniment

Music box

Jackknife

Diagramming sentences

Penmanship

Medicine ball

Indian clubs

Salt and pepper shakers

Shoetrees

Reading Sunday comics aloud

Grammar

Reciting poems

Hammock

Fishing in ponds and streams

Wind-up toys

Jack in the box

Friction cars

Rebus

Rowboats

Mineral baths

Ballroom dancing

Bowties

Folk dances

Boutonniere

Pie

Sunday dinner

Picket fence

Hat rack

Casseroles

Billiards

Rotor lawnmower

Pancakes

Corn bread

Clothesline

Hand crank ice cream maker

Tuiti-fruiti ice cream

Men's pinkie rings

Full service gas station

Telegram

Metal lunch box

Winter scarf

Wooden fruit crate

Hatpins

Bobbi pins

Penny loafers

Erector sets

Lincoln Logs

Wax paper bags

Brick sidewalks

Glass light globes

Christmas stockings

Roll top desk

Watercolors

Blueprints

Card tricks

Whistling

Handsaw

Wooden ruler

Juice glasses

Washtub

Pea coat

Nutcracker

Bird watching

Cartoon spokespersons

Day-old bread

Wallpaper

Soda fountain

Mashed potatoes and brown gravy

Kaleidoscope

Toothpick

Inner tube

Swing

Seesaw

Free time

Lined notebooks

Bay rum

Paper bags

Safety matches

Marbles

Oatmeal

Elm trees

Parochial schools

Porterhouse steak

Mules

Orchards

Radio Flyer wagon

Roasted chestnuts

Reciting poems

Cornet

Campfires

Jello

Brussels Sprouts

Ukuleles

Dressmaking

Corsage

Ushers

Newsreels

Powder rooms

Upholstery

Hair ribbons

Butch wax

Cloth diapers

Overalls

Mineral baths

Bag of roasted peanuts

Moustache wax

Limburger cheese

Paperboys

Fire escapes

House calls

Slide rules

Coal tar soap

Whittling

Garage thermometers

Votive candles

Rosaries

Phylacteries

Rubies

Emeralds

Portrait on oils

Black and white snapshot

Neon signs

Talcum powder

Christmas Clubs

Pantry

Penny candy

Tap dancing

Magic tricks

Fresh cut flowers in a vase

Dining room

Porch swing

Plastered walls

Ventriloquism

Change purse    

Times tables

Wooden barrels

Edible inland fish

Oratory

Decorated buttons

Buttermilk

Walking stick

Daydreaming

Shoe polish

Harmonica

Sarsaparilla soda pop

Tire swings

Tire patches

Beer glass

Wall mounted bottle opener

Church social

Picnics

Fountain pens

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