By kiki
Tina
The houses
at the Simons Brickyard were no more than shacks with no indoor plumbing or
natural gas, cooking was done on wood-burning stoves. When nature called we
used outhouses. “where the sports page?’ pop would yell, somebody would yell
back “in the outhouse” Where somebody had used it for toilet paper.
Saturday
mornings were the Simons people day to bathe. We all had tinas (galvanized tubs)
sitting on brick. After filling the tina with water we would light up a fire
underneath to get the water hot. Once the water was hot we would carry it in a
galvanized bucket to the bathing shack. Pops had dug a hole in the ground and constructed a tub, kind of a small swimming pool out of bricks and cement in the
bathing shack. In my last three years at Vail Elementary we were allowed to
shower daily at the school’s showers.
Mom would
use the tina to do the laundry. She had two tallador (washboards). She would hang the clothes
out to dry. In the winter if the clothes were left hanging over night they
would be frozen in the morning, we would have to put them close to the wood
burning stove to thaw them out.
Tallador
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