response 100 of 119:

Sep 16 22:25 UTC 2003

I had not heard of the 1900 house being shown here on TV, but I guess that
explains the American-language commentary.  I hope they kept the house
afterwards as a museum.  I live in a 1920s house (original sink, kitchen
cabinets and linoleum) and have lived in 1850 and 1840 but there was
electricity.  Upstairs in one of the houses was a round switch that you
turned, and I have one pushbutton type (I put that one in myself).  What was
the 1940s house like?  (I lived in a 1950s apartment when growing up in the
1950s but the house was probably 1900).

response 102 of 119:

Sep 17 07:35 UTC 2003

eating-paintchips-off-of-the-floor-ghetto house

response 104 of 119:

Sep 17 18:29 UTC 2003

        1940's house was a wonderfully series.  It took the family
to the left side of what we would call of duplex in a London
neighborhood, starting them at the eve of WWII in England.  In 
the time the family spent there, they went through the entire
war, including rationing and loss of supplies.

response 106 of 119:

Sep 17 20:14 UTC 2003

(They'd have to be careful with that, lest they suddenly need to change 
the name of the series to "1940's Rubble.")

response 108 of 119:

Sep 17 22:30 UTC 2003

The farmhouse I grew up in was built in the 1860's and had gas lighting
fixtures converted to electicity.  It was double walled brick, and had a
carriage house attached to the rear made of wood.

response 110 of 119:

Sep 19 21:15 UTC 2003

        Yup, they had to build an Anderson.  They then got loudspeaker
air raid blasts at any time, as done by the crew taking care of the 
family.  the family also got some vintage radio shows/newscasts.

response 112 of 119:

Sep 20 01:44 UTC 2003

sister wendy is cool, slynne turned me on to her as well.

response 114 of 119:

Sep 21 17:44 UTC 2003

I read Emma, Auntie Mame, and Wuthering Heights, all from slynne.

response 116 of 119:

Sep 22 13:13 UTC 2003

Last night I read Waterlily, also from slynne, a fictional account of life
among the Dakota Sioux, including the distribution by the White Man of
blankets with smallpox.  Lots of people also died of other infectious diseases
and were killed by 'the enemy'.  In all the 19th century novels people were
also dying like flies in infancy, in childbirth, or from 'a fever' caught by
getting wet feet.  In Wuthering Heights the author managed to kill off 4 of
6 main characters and get the two narrators sick for a month each as well.
The richer people got sick more in the novels - maybe because they kept
marrying their first cousins.  

Lilyflower's author was the third wife of someone whose first two wives (and
two kids) died of some infectious disease.   Maybe the flu used to be worse?

response 118 of 119:

Sep 22 17:48 UTC 2003

Patrick Dennis is a fictional name for the real author.  It was originally
just a collection of short stories that got strung together as a novel and
then made into two movies, a play and a musical.  We watched part of the first
movie but it was too full of tobacco smoke.  Rosalind Russell in the first
movie, Lucy in the second (as in I Love Lucy).

There was also a tremendous amount of smoke in Waterlily - it must have been
pretty awful in those tipis.