Good Ole Days

Century makes a Difference!

Since we just marked another year off the calendar, we thought it would be interesting to look back at life 100 years ago. Here are the U.S. statistics from one hundred years ago…

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was forty-seven.

Only 14 Percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.

Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.

Thoughts

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs!

If Wyle E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that ACME crap, why didn’t he just buy dinner?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

The Place Where I Feel Most At Home And What Makes It A Special Place For Me

by Amy Finkle

The place I feel most at home in is at my grandmothers house. I know it sounds silly that I wouldn’t pick my own house, but at my grandparents we do such fun things. First off, they live on a farm and have 26 acres of open forest and so we go walking in the woods. In the woods there is a pond and a cabin next to it that my pop built. In the summer we sleep over there and go fishing.

By Heather Stergos

As a child nothing spoke of the magic of Christmas like my grandparents house. I can still clearly remember the thrill of pulling up the snowy drive, for it seems like it was always snowy when we arrived at the big house for the holidays. My grandparents lived in a large three-story house built in 1908. At any point during the year it was a magical place for a child, filled with all sorts of treasures, but it seemed especially so during the Christmas season.