Volume 13 , Issue 5

Duchess & Sadie's Snowy Domain

[This is a view of Vallecito Lake looking South South East, or something like that.] -- The last day of January 2011 brought a cold front and some fresh snow to our area here in Southwest Colorado Rockies. It started snowing earlier this Monday morning with a light dusting of new snow covering the old, with intermittent snow and sunshine breaks during the morning into the afternoon. By mid-afternoon the snowflakes got bigger and the falling snow blocked the view of the mountain peaks.

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Home Comfort Range (1934) - Making Coffee

See if this following article in the 1934 Home Comfort Range Cookbook sounds familiar to how your grandparents or parents made coffee back in the 1930's. Did they have some special traditions for boiling or filtering their coffee back? We would love to hear of them.

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NW Okie's R & R - The Good Old Days of 1920's

This week we decided to show the younger McGill Bros. (Gene (on the right) and Bob McGill (on the left)) standing on the running board of the elder McGill Bros' (James & Wm "Bill" J. McGill) furniture truck that they used for hauling furniture around the Northwest Oklahoma countryside. I assume it is parked in front of Bill McGill's residence (or someone's residence), in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma. Both Bob and Gene are dressed in what looks like their best clothes, short pants, long stockings and jacket-type shirt with some sort of scarf-tie.

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Peggy Stover Cook's Dog Ranch Memories

Lois Caywood Guffy of Byron (email: lguffy@sctelcom [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Black Sand & Placer Deposit

Last week we spoke of the Black Sand of Southwest Oklahoma in the Wichita mountains that everyone was trying to get a piece of. This week we found some information that sort of told us what Black Sand was and how it was used in the panning for Gold in the Wichita mountains.

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1944 Monarch Malleable Super Heater

Have you seen one of these 1944 Super Heaters lately?

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Rock-N-Roll & Rockabilly - 1950's

Let us take some of you oldies out there back to the "Good Old Days" of Rock-n-Roll! Any Rock-n-Rollers out there from the 1950's?

Rock and Roll (often written as rock & roll or rock-n-roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of the blues, country music, jazz and gospel music.

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Edward R. Murrow - See It Now (March 9, 1954)

Some of you might remember the 1950's during the McCarthyism era when one person (Joe McCarthy) misused his powers to spread fear throughout America. There was one journalist who stood up to the fear mongers of the McCarthyism. That man was Edward R. Murrow, who did his research of the truth, bringing down the fear mongering of a Senator from Wisconsin, Joe McCarthy.

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This Day In History (January 31)

On 31 January 1865, the House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. (Go to article.)

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Longfellow 4th graders - 1951-52 (Alva, OK)

Ellis Raymer sent me a link to his [Facebook site] with photo albums showing the 4th grade class of 1951/52 at Longfellow Elementary school, in Alva, Oklahoma. There is also a photo of his 50th Class reunion at Alva High.

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