re: #194 Justanotherhuman

No, it was in Philly. They looked custom made. I think it might have been a working class thing there, but I’d never seen that before and I’m working class. : ) This says the ’50s and ’60s, but that was in the early ’70s.

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re: #195 dog philosopher

the people who would be important enough to be entertained in that carefully preserved furniture museum known in our house as the “living room” never arrived

MIL was a little white girl who towed a tow sack (different ‘tow’) through cotton fields in Tennessee. Everything she got, she got hard and she was proud of it.