Blackboard

I know I'm not the only one who had to bang the chalk out of the erasers at school.
The tray at the bottom of the wall of blackboards had to be cleaned too though I don't remember doing that.
Maybe the girls did that task and the boys cleaned the erasers.
I like chalkboards. I have a small one about 2'x2' that I made a nice oak frame and tray for and have used it for years.
But 2'x2' isn't large enough to keep all your stuff on and still have room to reinvent the wheel when your friends drop by.
So I had this 44x36" chalk board for years and finally decided I needed it and hung it on the wall this week.
Compared to the little board this mounting is crude as heck but maybe if I find an antique soap dish to screw on the wall near by it will suffice for the chalk/eraser holder.
You can't quite see it in the photo but at the top right of the board is says BUTTER. In smaller writing it says wholesale and retail. It came from a big commercial dairy that was in Mpls years ago.
Ewald Bros Dairy. They had the milk trucks that delivered bottled milk throughout the city.
So anyway, I got it mounted this week and my pal Steve came by tonight - bearing gifts as you can see.
And we had the chance to use the chalkboard for the first time.
I like it. Am glad I put it up.
I wonder if anyone else still uses old chalkboards.
By the way, there is a quiz at the end of this post.
From the pictures Steve scrawled on the blackboard can you guess what we were talking about?
Hint: Your mother had one.



I will not cuss on Yesterday's Tractors.
I will not cuss on Yesterday's Tractors.
I will not cuss on Yesterday's Tractors...

Electrolux vacuum cleaner.

No guess and no black board, but just a couple weeks ago in the shop at the farm I grabbed a white erase board that was above the door for years and wrote down a list of all my projects. Amazing how much easier it is to keep track of my projects, prioritize them, and find a quick project if I don't have much time to work on things.

I've been able to knock a few of them off already, and then the blank space quickly gets filled with another. But I can keep track of them this time.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Natural Ice beer can dispenser?

In our country school they took down the black boards and put up green boards that used yellow chalk. Was supposed to be easier on the eyes.
White boards with dry erase pens are much cleaner.

The drawings could be a still or a washing machine. BTW- remember when you visited years ago? There is an Ewald farm (yes, those Ewalds) about 3 miles East of me. "72 I made hay across the road. Been in CRP for years, buildings all fallen in- lawyers hunting farm now. Too hilly and light for sane people.

I have real slate 20'X4'-6in, in three of my classrooms. I do not like green or white boards at all. Jim

That one drawing does look like an Electrolux!

When I started teaching school, we still had chalkboards.
I used to run my fingernails down them to make sure my students were awake.
Bring back memories? LOL

Um, smoker or BBQ grill?

Second guess, boiler.

Yep. Have one section out of the one room school house that the wife attended when in grade school. Her dad bought a section for each of his kids. Keep cow data on it and things that I need to write down quick. Have to save the very bottom part for the grandkids.

i'm 65, yes we had chalk boards. i remember one day in about the 8th. grade a boy keep talking even after he was told to be quiet. the teacher quietly picked up an eraser, walked down the row and promptly dusted the boys head. boy was he a mess, funny at the time, today she would end up in jail. at the age of 11 or 12 i delivered milk house to house for a local dairy; Glenview Farms. 50 cents a day for sat. and sun. mornings. milk was in glass jugs, cream concentrated on top with a cardboard lid. left milk on the front porch, pick up empties, return to dairy to wash the bottles. 50 cents those days was a lot of money for a 11 year old.

Ultradog,

My wife is a retired high school English teacher. Among other things, she homeschooled three of my granddaughters in their high school English classes. For many years, we had a whiteboard that she used, hanging on the wall in the dining room. Our last granddaughter graduated from high school a little over a year ago. My wife had me repaint the dining room so we left the board down.

We miss it almost every day. I wouldn't be too surprised if she decided she wants it back up.

Tom in TN

I was paid 50 cents a day to go to the school early and build up the furnace fire so the school was warm when everyone else arrived. That kind of got me out of eraser duty but I remember pounding them a few times before I became furnace tender.

At recess time I had to add more coal, depending on the temperature. We didn't keep a fire over the weekend, so Monday morning was always the hardest to get the building warmed up again.

Looks like a churn to me. But that was before your time. They sold out a building here a while back that had a huge slate chalk board in it. I wanted to pay more attention and see if I could buy it but I was sure I had no where to hang it anyway.

Bingo!
Yes the one on the top right is an Electrolux.
The others are a vacuum that had big wheels and would flip over so the hose was always pointing in the right direction that his mother had. The one on the far right was one that supposedly blew the exhaust downward and would glide over the floor like a hovercraft.

My high school had the "green" chalkboards. They didn't get cleaned regularly and would get so bad you couldn't read the yellow chalk marks from all the residue. Then they came in and put in white boards. Huge improvement as long as the markers were good. No dust, less mess, better contrast. I have two white boards at home for note taking.

We have a 8 footer we found in a old shed that we have hanging in the hall . The kids grewup with it and now the grandkids keep it full . We also have the rolldown map , looks like about 7-8 differant maps , never pulled it down , afraid it wont roll back up !!

I have a 4X6 in the shop. I used pin stripe tape and made boxes and marked all the vehicles etc. on it and various info such as oil changes etc. Next to is is a 2X3 fiberous board that I pin box tops on. Stuff like oil filter number etc. I scribble what it was for by the part number. Pretty handy, don"t have to look up part numbers for the common stuff this way.
One day a suspicious looking vehicle came by slowly. I jotted down the license number, make and color as well as the date and time. Never saw it again, but a few months later my Dad was over visiting and asked when I got the Chevy truck. I said what Chevy truck? He said the one on you have written on your chalkboard! I promptly erased the note.

Why did you mount it so high? 'Don't look to me like you can reach the top of it! Especially when you start to "slump" a little over the Natural Ice!

(quoted from post at 10:32:47 09/12/12) Why did you mount it so high? 'Don't look to me like you can reach the top of it! Especially when you start to "slump" a little over the Natural Ice!

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He didn't want to cut a hole in it for the light switch. :idea:

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Was running when parked.

Bi focal s my friend... sometimes ya need to tilt yer head back to see..

When I was in school had to walk 10 miles each way uphill. When weather was really cold got to ride dinasoers.

James,
I have one of those too - laying in the basement of a rental house I own.
I think most of the attachments are there - including the spray gun. Steve said his dad used the spray gun to flock the Christmas tree a couple of times.

I bought one at auction but not that old, in the original box there was a small tin of DDT with instructions on how to affix it to the hose and spray it around the skirting board for silverfish,cockroaches etc.