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From: "Alvie L. Davidson CG" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Warshin clothes - interesting cultural differences
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:59:50 -0500
In-Reply-To: <462053.56126.qm@web55907.mail.re3.yahoo.com>


I am very familiar with galvanized #3 washtubs. We used two of them to wash
clothes in and on Friday afternoon we took a bath in one.
Living in rural central Florida we had no electricity and not hot water so
we pumped up a tub of water in the morning and let it sit in the sun to warm
til late in the afternoon to get our bath.
I was born near Decatur, AL but raised near Arcadia, FL and became very
familiar with scrub boards and lye soap. When we moved out of the country
into the city at my age of 15 we learned all about how to use electricity.
Even had an electric radio..no more dead batteries.

Alvie L. Davidson CG
Lakeland, Florida
http://alviesgenealogyspot.blogspot.com

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From: [mailto:] On Behalf
Of Tate/King/Cox Families of TN
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [APG] Warshin clothes - interesting cultural differences

Yup, the galvanized tubs filled with cold and hot water, a hand-cranked
roller-wringer type thing (dang! can't remember the name of it). I didn't
"carry" - I toted and was happy to do it for my grandma :) She was great!

Scrub boards and lye soap were the norm. She washed my hair in powdered
Tide. Madison County AL holds a lot of old-fashioned memories for me -
good, bad or ugly.

Had an aunt that lived in the "holler" with well water and a crick and the
water itself was ice cold and fun to play in. It was the clearest water
I've ever seen (except for the water in the lake behind Neuschwannstein).
Learned what a water skeeter was there and how to shoot a BB Gun. Shotguns
came later.

Amazing how we, who lived in similar areas of the country, have slightly
different views on the world as we knew it then. I certainly learn a lot
from this particular board whether it be about research, history or any of
the APG discussions (as it relates to the entity itself).

Lynita "Stubby" Tate
Marietta, GA

wrote: Carolyn wrote:
> I can tell you this for sure, I'm not a "true" southerner (raised
> military),
> but under no circumstances would I EVER carry water in a pail from a brook
> . I'd take my bucket down to the creek to get that water. And then I'd
> probably WARSH something with it, possibly using a warshrag.

Growing up on a farm in the Mississippi Delta, across the river from
Carolyn's great state (the one we used to refer to as TGFA--Thank God for
Arkansas :), I was a long way from a creek and the only crick around was the

one I got in my neck from carrying the bucket of water I'd just pumped from
the artesian well.

And, yes, I did *carry* it. I didn't *tote* it, like folks in Northeastern
Alabama. But never, in the Mississippi Delta, did I *warsh* something, not
even when I used a wash tub and a rub-board. In case anybody's interested, I

also used that old galvenized wash tub for a cooler on hot days, but I
didn't fill it with bottles of pop or soda. I put it under the pump, filled
it with water from the well (water, not warter), and then lolled in it with
my pet duck.

Elizabeth






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