Home Features… That Have Been Forgotten!
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- Get ready for a trip back in time! Let's explore Mysterious Home Features No Longer Used. Home designs have changed a lot over the years. From milk doors to sleeping porches, these things were pretty normal in the past. So let's take a look and discover together what life was like in America's golden years and revisit 10 old home features that have faded into history!
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When I was a kid in the 1960s, we still had a milkman. They often also brought some other items like butter, eggs & even bread. It was a great time to grow up.
The milkman is making a return in my country, but it's a niche thing taken up mostly by the moneyed and "influencers".
I was a Texas child in the '60s too (Central TX). I remember the milkman; we had insulated iced tea "glasses" (plastic) for years that had come with cottage cheese, from the milkman. And remember the paper caps on the milk jugs that usually had cream clinging to them when you first opened it? Thanks for that jog down Memory Lane! ;)
I still have a milk man, brings eggs, butter, juice if I want. 🤷
@@datamusic4923 That's cool. Is it truly a milk company? Where do you live?
Yes, I miss having the Milkman come to our home. And the Bread man would come each week, as well. Bread, cakes, donuts, rolls, etc., where sold from the back of his truck.
My parents born in the 1920s said in the summer they would spend the nights on their sleeping porches to stay cooler. This was in Dallas, Texas. The summers were hot.
My maternal grandmother had an enclosed porch with couches, chairs, table, a divan. 1984
We had a console TV. B+W. When it went bad, we bought another and my dad made a bookcase out of the broken one. Both bought from Sears.
I rented a house with a laundry chute and it was the best. It’s dangerous to carry laundry down a flight of stairs. You can’t see where you’re going.
I've only ever had one but it was amazing! My daughters little boyfriends would challenge each other to jump down.
In the 1960’s and 70’s my family would put two box fans in the windows upstairs, going with the normal wind direction. One to pull air in, and one on the opposite side to push air out. After the sun set, it would quickly cool down the whole house and make for good sleeping. Setting shades and closing the house up as the sun rose would keep that night air and cooling in, making scorching days that much more tolerable. Didn’t need a sleeping porch with the window fans. Even better, upwind neighbor had a huge row of mature fragrant lilacs, when they bloomed it was about two weeks of heaven, pulling that in with the fans…
My home was built in 1920. I still have a fully operational 1940’s rotary telephone.
If I ever get to live in an old house, I want a aleeping porch. I want dark screening and a futon bed, with a small lamp and a soft rug.
I remember all of these, guess I am getting up there. Many of these were in my grandmother's home.
Instead of laundry chutes, now they just install the washer/dryer upstairs with the bedrooms.
Old house in the city growing up in STL! Had the enclave for an old phone, had a laundry shoot, had a milk door. My brother and me mostly used the laundry shoot for dropping toys down it 🤣
We still use sleeping porches here in South Texas!❤
Unfortunately, laundry chutes are a major fire hazard as they give the fire an easy path the move up the levels of the house. My grandparents' house had one and while it was no longer used for that reason we loved dropping a toy down then running to the basement to get it and back up again!
We were one of the last homes in LA to still have milk delivery. They delivered it way up into the 80’s for us!
I miss console t.v.'s, I liked the look of them. We had a large one kept in a bay window area. We have a transom window over our front double doors, and the medicine cabinet with the razor slit. I've often wondered how many must be behind that wall. To ones that like the laundry chute idea, it's a fire hazard, that's why they were discontinued. It acts like a chimney if there's a fire, spreading it faster.
I love both the panelled and orange areas, you could combine the looks!
I loved ❤the milkman He was great 👍
In the 1960s we got our milk from the milkman. We also ordered eggs, cream chocolate milk, doughnuts, bread. If that type of service were available today imagine the millions of gallons of gasoline saved everyday just from running to the store to get a half a gallon of milk. Also new construction should have laundry shutes in them. It is so much safer than trying to walk down the steps carrying a large laundry basket. As kids we were always inclined to pick up our laundry from our room because it was just fun dropping it down the shute.
I remember black an white tv from the early 50s.
Grandad had a curved thick magnified piece of glass in front of it to make the screen look larger.
The love of Mom's life was her milkman in 1944 when she was 18. My brother looks exactly like him.
Oooh, A TRUE "milkman story" did anyone else notice!?!
Growing up in Hong Kong, we did not have any of the home features that you covered in the video. Thank you so much for this wonderful video!🎉😊
In my RUclips analytics I see one of my videos gets suggested by this video, how this works I have no idea but I am thankful and grateful so I’m here to like sub and comment to show my appreciation.
I remember them all and miss them all. The house that I grew up in was built in the 1880's. It had most of these features
That was the sitting room in my house. The living room was where the TV was.
How about RUclips features that have disappeared such as live human narrators instead of A-I.
house i grew up in had a milk door and a laundry chute.
Phone niche and milk box in my Grandparents Spanish Revival bungalow in SoCal. Also, a very small breakfast nook. Loved those.
I think a version of the console tv could recur. Obviously, the tv part wouldn't take up as much room, and I doubt it would be a floor model, but I imagine a wall unit with shelves around it, sound system built in, etc. We're already moving that way, with the picture frame tvs, as it was all about making a beautiful piece of furniture out of a plastic eyesore.
I wouldn't be surprised if future house plans did incorporate a package delivery area, I just hope it takes into consideration the delivery people, and is easy access from driveway.
I live in Tennessee, and it's ridiculous that we got rid of sleeping porches when there are many months of the year where AC wouldn't have to be on if we had access to them. Transom windows would be great as well, since it is often desirable to keep doors closed, but the AC seems to work better with more circulation.
Laundry chutes (and, not mentioned this video, dumbwaiters) probably lost some popularity because kids are stupid, and would not be able to resist trying to go down them themselves. I have seen a few laundry chutes on modern plans, but not often.
The Pittsburgh potty is a great concept: access to a bathroom without destroying the house. One thing I always think of when I look at house plans is how close a toilet is to an entrance and how much of the house you have track through to get there, especially important in rural areas or if you're a farmer, but I bet a lot of parents would appreciate it for kids - if kids still played outside. Most tempting house I've looked at in recent years, door from garage entered next to kitchen counters (easy grocery drop off) to a hallway that had bathroom on one side and the laundry set up on the other. Like, you could literally stand in the bathtub and toss your clothes across hall into the washer. If you have been lucky enough in your life to have never experienced coming home so nasty you want to strip outside and hose off, you are blessed, but I have not been that fortunate.
I think a version of the phone niche should come back, except upgraded for modern technology, designed for the charging of cell phones, pads, laptops, etc. For a long time, most people only had one phone, so the niche was centrally located in house. Growing up, you could say the one in our home was in the hub of the wheel - all rooms came out from that center point, and you had to pass by it to get anywhere - so it was also a great place to keep the car keys and wallets/purses.
I remodel bathrooms/houses and ive done some in Detroit and surrounding suburbs. Ive taken out a lot of bathrooms and seen razor blades in the wall. One house had what looked like well over 1000 blades piled up. it was the only time Id seen that many in 20 years doing it. Lots of houses i work on have laundry chutes. Did a bathroom 3 weeks ago and they like having the laundry chute.
I was born in 1979, and my childhood home had a living room, and a separate room to watch tv.
Cool channel
We said the front room, not the living room back in the 1950's and 1960's.
I lived in an apartment building where we had a milk cubby outside each apartment. But there was just 1 door in the hall. U couldn’t reach from inside the apartment. Plus they weren’t being used anymore for that by the time I lived there between 1989-1992.
My grandmother always called the fridge the icebox (she was born in very late 1890s). I lived in an apartment in Chicago back in the 1980s. Someone broke in by taking out the transom window and ransacking my apartment. They did take some items. So sometimes it wasn't safe to have that type of window.
Wait....... do you believe living rooms gone? I'm pretty sure they are exactly as they've always been. We still have em.
Our family had a large console TV in the mid 80s. My memory is my little sister playing around in the living room and cracking her head on the corner of it. 😮
Living rooms are still called living rooms. What else are they called now?
Our current house was built in 1896 and has transom windows! Our first home had the telephone niche and yes, that’s where our telephone was!
My baby-sitters sister bed room was below the laundry room..so, her parents cut a square in the corner of her closet..so, all she had to do was just drop her clothes down..when I poked my in..she told me to be careful...she said there was a 🕳 hole for the laundry..😊 :) 👖 🧦 👟
Iorning board that folded into the wall.
Yes ! Laundry chute
Nice video, would be better if you weren't always asking if we remembered something lol.
How have living rooms disappeared? What do you have now then?
Sort of multi purpose family rooms. With wide open floorplan houses to often have a room with couch, TV, etc at one end and the other has dining table and kitchen.
In Ireland, the parlour is where you expect to be laid out when the time comes 🥴. I'd consider them still a feature in rural houses. Houses in cities/towns too small.
Nous avons aussi une salle de bain à l'étage d'habitation mais aussi une baignoire dans la cave la cave s'ouvre vers l'extérieur) et c'est pratique quand on travaille au jardin car on est sale et on se lave dans la baignoire de la cave et on est propre pour être dans les zones d'habitation
After WW2, color TVs--what? This is confusing, to say the least, to connect the second world war with color TVs. You sound old enough to know better, but are you?
Modern homes have laundry facilities upstairs, conveniently located where the bedrooms and bathrooms are as well as most of the laundry (clothing, bedding, towels etc) so there is no longer need to haul laundry down to the basement.
Some of the narrative seems pedantic and repetitive.
I would not go back to those years for anything. Women were viewed as helpless creatures. I am so glad I was born later.
No, we were not seen as useless, thatis what media has taught you. Woman now have mire equal rights, yes but we were not seen as useless.
@@bevascah8875 I would not go back. My mother and father divourced. My mother had to get credit in her father's name.
I don't know where you grew up, but my grandmothers (born in 1902 and 1910), both farmer/rancher wives, were viewed as the opposite of "helpless." They took care of their families and ran the household AND were an integral part of the farming/ranching operation AND each had their own little "side hustles" (selling things like milk, butter and eggs to people in town and doing fine sewing work for profit) where they were able to put aside cash money. They were partners in the family business and still they ran their homes like queens of the castle. They had more respect from their husbands/families than most women I know today do. We've been lied to about how things used to be.
@@merrymerry7583 My mother left my father and came home to Louisiana. She used her father's credit for years as she could not get a credit card on her own. She was so successful. She built a trailer park on her father's land as she was his only heir. She also taught school. But she could not get credit on her own. I am so glad we left the fifties behind.
@@merrymerry7583 Oh, and my grandmother was a nurse. She met my grandfather late and had my mother when she was forty'five. I am still angry that my mother could not get a credit card in her own name until late in life.