A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Candy stores and pharmacies were the same store-front back in the day, weren't they? Seem to remember reading that somewhere.

1 stop shopping at it's best; what we can't see obviously is the rest of the store where it could be stocked with everything that one might find in a classic general store

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Candy stores and pharmacies were the same store-front back in the day, weren't they? Seem to remember reading that somewhere.

I'm not sure how far "back in the day" we could find such a combination, but I can assure you that we had such a combined-treats storefront, a pharmacy-candy-treats place in my suburban neighborhood, during the 40's and 50's, in western Pennsylvania, that was known as "Palchack's Drug Store," and it sold prescription drugs, candy, Wise Potato Chips, pretzel sticks, gum-balls, "Jaw Breakers," ice cream, and cosmetics and perfumes, and many other personal needs, even small round tins of "chaw-tabaccie" (as it was pronounced in our neck-of-the-woods.) Palchak's (named after the ever-present druggist-proprietor, cheerful and watchful,) even had a few wooden booths with black (slate?) tabletops where one could sit for consumption of an ice cream treat while waiting for a prescription to be filled, or just to relax and cool off.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The amazing thing to me is, when we see old houses like Kingsley House, circa 1768, is that it was built by hand, starting with cutting down trees!!!!!!!!! Nobody went to a lumber yard for any of it. Wow. (There are not enough WOWS to celebrate such accomplishment.)

Also, one can understand why folks back then valued having sons and having good neighbors so much. A man can't lift a log alone, one atop another, or even split a log and lift the roughhewn "planks" one above the other. And who knows how to do that anyways! Not I. Can you imagine me trying to do all that? MAYBE, I could "produce" the pile of crude "lumber," before dropping dead, but then what? Stand around and look at the pile, and...and.....just a pile.

And I wonder where they stayed in the meantime of the construction - in a Conestoga wagon, I suppose, if they still had one from the trip(!?)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Also, one can understand why folks back then valued having sons and having good neighbors so much. A man can't lift a log alone, one atop another, or even split a log and lift the roughhewn "planks" one above the other.

Splitting a log is not all that terrible to do; hand hewing it reasonably flat on 2 surfaces is far more involved and takes a bit of skill using a broad axe and an adze. So not planks, but just logs squared off on 2 opposite sides.

Lifting it - levers and ramps work when you are on your own. Levers and ramps when you have help and/or might use the mule to pull it up the ramp from the other side Once up, note the dove tail ends - it all locks together very neatly. Another skill set there in making the dove tail ends at the corners. Might also be wood nailed/spiked together

Then it's chinking to fill in the gaps between the logs.....

And I wonder where they stayed in the meantime of the construction - in a Conestoga wagon, I suppose, if they still had one from the trip(!?)

Wagon extended out to be a lean to enclosure possibly.....................but no Wi-Fi,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

No WiFi !!!?? If they had such a wonder, they'd still be staying in the wagon lean-to. What work would have gotten done? What neighbors would have been met? NONE.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No WiFi !!!?? If they had such a wonder, they'd still be staying in the wagon lean-to. What work would have gotten done? What neighbors would have been met? NONE.

Neighbors? Oh, you mean that smoke coming up over the ridge a few miles away? Those folks an hour away on horseback?

[Roy]

The amazing thing to me is, when we see old houses like Kingsley House, circa 1768, is that it was built by hand, starting with cutting down trees!!!!!!!!! Nobody went to a lumber yard for any of it. Wow. (There are not enough WOWS to celebrate such accomplishment.)

Also, one can understand why folks back then valued having sons and having good neighbors so much. A man can't lift a log alone, one atop another, or even split a log and lift the roughhewn "planks" one above the other. And who knows how to do that anyways! Not I. Can you imagine me trying to do all that? MAYBE, I could "produce" the pile of crude "lumber," before dropping dead, but then what? Stand around and look at the pile, and...and.....just a pile.

Reminds me of the barn raising scene in that Harrison Ford movie.

[HONDO74]

The Amish are very good at doing things the old way. They use horses to get around and they don't have WiFi. They don't even have electricity.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Amish are very good at doing things the old way. They use horses to get around and they don't have WiFi. They don't even have electricity.

Well, maybe. I know that the Amish round my way do have a TV available for keeping up with the news and current events and in my dealings with them they are probably better informed that most people; they are not in isolation. They will ride in cars and trucks, and will use the phone at the neighbor's house for business. As for electricity, they have generators to run whatever they need for business purposes. And, they have cell phones.....for business purposes.

They are also good at doing things the new ways - Amish renovated my place in Pa - all power tools air-driven off a gas motor driven compressor. As much as many would like to think that the Amish are living exclusively in the 19th century, they aren't. They are realists when it comes to interacting with the world and choose where to draw the lines around themselves. They may be wiser than most people.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

No WiFi !!!?? If they had such a wonder, they'd still be staying in the wagon lean-to. What work would have gotten done? What neighbors would have been met? NONE.

Neighbors? Oh, you mean that smoke coming up over the ridge a few miles away? Those folks an hour away on horseback?

All the more reason to hold on tightly to the neighbors one did meet in those days. Bonding must have been rock-solid.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No WiFi !!!?? If they had such a wonder, they'd still be staying in the wagon lean-to. What work would have gotten done? What neighbors would have been met? NONE.

Neighbors? Oh, you mean that smoke coming up over the ridge a few miles away? Those folks an hour away on horseback?

All the more reason to hold on tightly to the neighbors one did meet in those days. Bonding must have been rock-solid.

Yep, neighbors were a source of marriageable youth, in-laws, and mergers of property into major fiefdoms.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Knights of Pythias, Newport, PA

[MurphOnMillerAve]

You can see they took their outfits very seriously.
Is that a long-haired dog breed he is sitting on, peeking out between his legs?