True North wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 10:18:18 UTC-3, Tim wrote:
7:17 AMTrue North
When we visited my Cape Breton grandparents all through the '50s and
very early '60s we used an outhouse and water was delivered from a well
by a hand pump mounted at the kitchen sink.

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Yessir. I was still a baby when my grandparents got rid of the wood
cook stove and got an electric range in the mid-1950s

I remember the old wood burning kitchen stove. It also heated water.
Not sure if it was a Kemac or something similar but the house always had
a familiar odor that I instantly recognized on our once a year visits.


Our neighbors growing up had a stove that burned wood on one side and gas
burners on the other. Next to Berkeley. Up to and probably after the
1906 SF earthquake, anniversary today, lots of home in SF had outhouses.
Today they search for those outhouse locations. They did move around the
yard as they filed, and search for bottles, etc that were dumped in the
outhouse.