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SodBuster87 · Mar 27, 2018

I got word today my great uncle on my mom's side passed away. He and my grandpa always told me stories of the "good old days" when I was a young kid. I will always remember him telling me how he thought he was living high on the hog the day they got electricity and running water. He would have been 101 next week.

Russ from MN · Mar 27, 2018

You are lucky to have heard those stories! I have a second cousin who is (91) somewhat older than I, and we visited
recently. he remembers stories his grandfather told him about growing up in the 1870's, it's great to hear them.
My grandfather died in 1929, 22 years before I was born.

SodBuster87 · Mar 27, 2018

He died long before I came around but I am told that my great grandfather was "The only person to ever hate the banks more then me." I guess he was a very wealthy man and when the banks crashed in 29 he lost everything.

Gordo83 · Mar 27, 2018

I think all of us who love old tractors have appreciation for the "good old days". For me, they weren't all that long ago. I bought my first house in 1985. The farm just down the road had no indoor plumbing. He and his family had an outhouse and a hand pump in the kitchen, as well as a woodstove to cook with. If they wanted hot water in July, they lit the stove to boil it. I used to visit him quite often. He and his family were very happy people. Neither of my parents had electricity or running water as children. It all seemed very natural to me in 85 that he didn't have or need running water. A few years later he sold a piece of his farm and had a toilet, running water and a stove put in for his wife before he passed away.
That was only 32 years ago.
Sorry for your uncle. Sounds like he was very happy.

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