Saturday, May 12, 2012

A Glance at How People Spend their Time in the Past

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By Joy Z. Dovey


In the past there were no vacuum cleaners, there are large place mats brought in from Persia (now Iran). The moment the living area carpet turned dirty with many dirt, they were pulled out of the house and placed over a what we called a wash line and presented a firm beating with a carpet beater created from bamboo sticks brought in from Jakarta the Capital of Indonesia, to get the dirt off, then put back to the living room floor to enjoy again.

The preliminary schools nowadays live through Six years, Monday to Friday, and Saturday mornings, Wednesday afternoon free. Some schools started with a small bottle of milk supplied by the government for the students. There never was any kind of groundwork, all of school work was completed at school, that was excellent.

How did the early era spend their leisure time? Some people were listening to radio programs, which came on every night around 7 pm with continuing drama, which made you would like to listen to the following episode the following night. Other families like my Two brothers and 2 sisters and parents were participating in card games for candies, monopoly, chess, and checkers, which was in the house, out the house we were taking part in different games with marbles, and Hula hoop, and flying homemade kites.

Also the majority of us could have a spare time activity, my favourite hobby was monochrome Photography, Within the room of the house was a deep closet that I turned into a spare time activity closet, along with 3 trays which looked like trays for paint but was not, 1 was used for developer, 1 for rinsing and the other for backing the pictures.

Required was a Paterson tank to produce the negatives, an enlarger to help make the photos and the Three baths. In the event the pictures went through the 3 baths, they were attached on a wash line to dried out the same as the laundry.




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