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| | Glory and dreams (16th Dec 22 at 1:58am UTC) | | Most of the appliances, gadgets and creature comforts of the 1970s are still rare. There were no electric lawn mowers, household air conditioners, and automatic dishwashers; no clothes dryers, electric blankets, and radios that turned on and off on a timer; no insulated glass windows, nylon stockings, clothes that could be washed and dried easily, and refrigerated food; no automatic coffee pans, electric razors with dry batteries; no filter cigarettes, electric toothbrushes, vinyl flooring; No ballpoint pens, electric typewriters, dictaphones, xerographic duplicators; no styrofoam, high-fidelity stereo radios, sticky tape; no household refrigerators, cassette recorders, color or instant film; no fiberglass fishing rods, garbage disposal devices,inflatable amusement park, tape recorders; no snowplows, electric scalpels; There are no household hair heaters, no electric canning knives, no music broadcasting devices in public places. Although Gilbert Seldes, writing in Harper's magazine, predicted that "soon we will probably have a simple and inexpensive mechanism (which is currently being improved) to project films transmitted by radio central stations on a small screen next to the home radio." But there was no television, not even a black and white one. But without that,Inflatable meltdown, the middle class survived the Great Depression and the entire 1930s. It's like pioneer life! Most Americans heat their homes with hot-air stoves, hand filled with coal, twice a day. In one winter, the country needed about 400 million tons of coal, which was delivered by a swarthy man. The coal truck drove up to the basement window, poured the coal into the chute, and rolled into the coal box next to the stove. At that time, the so-called "refrigerator" was not a refrigerator, but a box of ice cubes, delivered by an ice delivery person. How many pounds of ice does a housewife need? Write it on a card in the kitchen window. It's 100, 75, 50, or 25 pounds. Only a rich husband could buy his wife a modern toaster oven that could burn both sides at the same time (it was the "super toaster oven" in the Sears Roebuck catalogue of that year). In most homes, bread is baked in a gas, Inflatable water park factory ,Jumping castle with slide, coal, or wood oven. The stove is also used to heat the big iron, to smooth the fresh clothes from the laundry, and if there is no hot water tap in the house, to boil hot water and take it to the bath in large buckets. The phonograph has to be wound up by hand. It's called a Viterola or a Glamo, not a record player. Housewives put on their dust caps before they start the heavy cleaning; usually there is only one machine that can help, and that is the carpet cleaner. In December 1932, there were only 185 vacuum cleaners in households large and small, powered by the Alabama Power Company. Most farms are lit by kerosene lamps. Only 10% of the nation's farm households (and only 1% in Mississippi) have access to electricity. Ninety percent of farmers have neither bathtubs nor showers. 75% of farmhouses do not have running water. Fifty percent of farmers go to wells or rivers to fetch water, wash clothes outdoors and bathe their children. Millions of families living in cities have only one washboard, which the whole family uses, usually hanging clothes outside the door on Mondays. There are a lot of insects, which is a problem every summer. DDT did not exist then, and the only pest control equipment in both rural and urban areas was the sprayer ( "Henry, hurry up and get the Feilituo" refers to the spray gun. "Come on!" And flypaper. Mothers have to get their own juice for their children, buy "Citi" oranges, put them in an aluminum juice tray, and spend half a day squeezing the juice out one by one. Before the girls knew how to clip their hair (the boys wore long trousers for the first time at about the same age), their mothers explained to them the differences between women of social status and those of no status.
A woman of rank has these advantages: a man opens the door for her and lets her walk in front; someone stands up and offers her a seat on buses and trams; a man takes off his hat as soon as she gets into the elevator; a butcher listens to her and cuts whatever meat she wants; a grocery store hears the phone call and delivers to her door; if she has a baby, she stays in bed for ten days as usual (the total cost, including the doctor, is 25 yuan). But on the other hand, she had to obey her husband's will, for she had vowed at the wedding to "love, honor, and obey him.". She has to behave herself in front of everyone. Middle-class women could not smoke in the street or go out to meet people with curly hair on their heads; they could carry a small compact with a mirror in their handbag to hold some cosmetics, but only in empty places or in women's toilets; they could not swear or tell obscene jokes. (Sometimes she wants to know what women's homosexuality means, but who to ask?) The writers of the advertisements try their best to frighten her, so that she is afraid of this and that: afraid of bad breath, body odor, underwear odor, sitting in the office and sitting on her buttocks, afraid of blocked pores, afraid of bleeding from brushing her teeth, afraid that her breath smells like cigarettes, fear of colon failure, fear of sagging breasts, and fear of athlete's foot. Skirt should be longer than the calf (if the skirt does not meet the knee, it must be a bitch). A woman of rank cannot go out without wearing a bonnet, just as a husband cannot go out without wearing a trilby with a curved front brim. She can use Ipana toothpaste (which is said to make her smile), Dr. West toothbrushes, and even Tangi lipstick, but not nail polish or hair color. Barbers did not yet know how to dye their hair, and respectable women did not even dare to talk about such things. There was a bright young chemistry major at New York University who went door to door selling homemade "Clairol" hair dye,Inflatable water obstacle course, but in order to make a living, he could not mention "dyeing", but only "coloring" his hair. joyshineinflatables.com | |
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