There was no I-64. It was built in the 1960’s. The main road was the Midland Trail which was gravel.
The automobile of the day was the Ford Model T and they were all black.
To go somewhere of any distance, you went to Preston or Olympia and caught the train.
US 60 as we know it did not exist until 1926, when they built it out of concrete.
There were no microwave ovens, stoves of the day were probably wood burners.
There was no natural gas for gas stoves and the main heat was coal burning stoves.
No clothes dryers existed - you hung them on the clothes line!
Half of all homes in the US didn’t have electricity. Most still used oil lamps.
High Street was a gravel road and all the houses on the street had fences because . . .
turkeys, cattle, pigs were all driven or walked down the main streets.
Morehead State University at that time was called Morehead Normal School.
There were no…..
computers,
cd players,
ipods,
cellphones,
air conditioners
televisions,
cable for tv’s,
Internet,
mini calculators
Subway, McDonald's, Dairy Queen, or Pizza Places,
Only 8% of all homes in the United States had a telephone.
A loaf of bread cost 7 cents and sugar was 4 cents per pound.
Most families had chickens, pigs and a garden….in town!
The population was 942 - in 2010 the population was 1592
Owingsville was 105 years old - this year it is 205 years old
Owingsville was exactly 1 square mile - it is now approximately 2 ½ square miles.
There were no water faucets in the house, Water came from wells - the city water works were built in 1927.
There were no indoor toilets. Every building had a privy or outhouse in the back yard.
There was no city sewer system - it was built in the mid 1950’s.
There were no street lights.
No weather radar or army radar existed.
No radio, if you wanted the news, you read the newspaper.
For fires, huge cisterns were built, many of which still exist.
World War 1 was being fought in Europe.
Daddy talked or wrote about all of these things at one time or another. He loved history and the memories of his town. He was born on February 23, 1916. This coming Tuesday, February 23, 2016 he would have been 100 years old.
DonLabels: Burl Kincaid