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Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Sep 2021, 15:12
by Stanley
No Graham it's historical.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 02 Sep 2021, 18:09
by Big Kev
Spare parts for steam engines?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 02:51
by Stanley
No Kev. Big clue. Think California or bust.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 06:00
by Cathy
Are they ‘last chance’ Toilets?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 06:37
by Stanley
No Cathy, they sold something.... If I quote another title pertinent to the move west I shall give it to you.....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 06:49
by Wendyf
Was it once a gas station?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 07:06
by Stanley
No Wendy, a roadside stall selling food to travellers.......
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 07:30
by Gloria
Mule Tobacco Barn?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 07:46
by Stanley
Sorry no Gloria. What food could be being sold to travellers....?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 08:00
by Gloria
First place selling burgers?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 08:36
by Big Kev
I reckon Gloria is there but I'm going to throw in water melons, no idea why it just looked like a watermelon stall
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 09:52
by Tripps
Can I throw in 'hominy grits' just for the sheer joy of using the expression.
Wikipedia helpfully describes them as " Hominy grits is a type of grits made from hominy "
First heard of them in a Tom Lehrer song almost a lifetime ago.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 10:26
by Stanley
Sorry but nobody has got there. Kev is the closest. One last clue, the stalls sold produce grown on the farms alongside the road.... You're going to kick yourselves. Best clue I gave was to think of a famous title associated with the western migration....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 10:28
by Tripps
Grapes of Wrath ?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 10:41
by Stanley
At last! I have to give it to David. There are mentions in individual accounts of stopping at roadside stalls selling grapes and when I was driving up Route 66 to St Louis and my stay with Uncle Bob and Paulette I came across this roadside stand in Missouri. Whilst there is no direct connection with the migration or Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath', one of the itinerant jobs the travellers did was grape harvesting. Bob agreed that these stall sold grapes and were contemporaneous with the migration in the 30s.
Next one?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 11:10
by plaques
OK what's this.
box mangle.jpg
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 03 Sep 2021, 11:55
by Stanley
I think I know but will keep stum.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Sep 2021, 02:38
by Stanley
Nobody seems to be biting. Is it a machine for pressing large items like sheets in a public wash house?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Sep 2021, 07:24
by plaques
Correct again Stanley. Its a box mangle. A flat bed where a box full of stones to add weight was drawn over the items on the bed. The one shown was in the workhouse laundry Burnley. Having been put through the 'mangle' the sheets etc often didn't need ironing.
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Sep 2021, 10:39
by Stanley
What is it?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Sep 2021, 11:09
by PanBiker
If you showed a bit more you would see the sea?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Sep 2021, 11:48
by Cathy
At first I thought turtle eggs, but there’s too many there for one turtle to lay.
Are they sea pebbles?
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Sep 2021, 12:07
by Stanley
Ian knows what it is and not pebbles Cathy. Knock it on the head Ian....
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Sep 2021, 12:26
by Big Kev
Ice balls...
Re: MYSTERY OBJECTS
Posted: 04 Sep 2021, 14:06
by Stanley
Quite right Kev.... Next one?