tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458583403983721143.post4757451166459913495..comments2023-12-01T22:04:13.783-08:00Comments on 86 and Holding: Street NoisesEdith Lankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05893006691276767073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458583403983721143.post-34998980192624857522013-07-06T07:34:08.440-07:002013-07-06T07:34:08.440-07:00By coincidence I was researching anthracite coal n...By coincidence I was researching anthracite coal not too long ago. I was born in the 1950's. I have no experience with coal trucks. Surely they were long gone by then?<br /><br />That was a very evocative post though. I am very conscious of morning sounds too.Stacy Hornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458583403983721143.post-8627062255187138172013-07-05T07:40:08.095-07:002013-07-05T07:40:08.095-07:00My guess is that the Brighton kids' failure to...My guess is that the Brighton kids' failure to recognize coal was more about place than era. Coal was very much in use in the 50s in Peoria....my grandparents' furnace used coal, as did our next door neighbors'furnace. The neighbor used to save the coal scatter tags (see Ebay "coal scatter tags") for me to use as play money. Just like "Christmas Story", the roaring blazes in those furnaces scared me to death.Dannettenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458583403983721143.post-56484576480741208532013-07-04T13:45:18.703-07:002013-07-04T13:45:18.703-07:00My husband, who worked in a lot of older homes in ...My husband, who worked in a lot of older homes in the Syracuse University area during his remodeling days, says that he'd occasionally encounter a coal chute in a basement with coal still in it. And our 1928 "stockbroker Tudor" out near LeMoyne College also still has a coal chute (but no coal).A. Mariehttp://janeaustensyr.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com