Coal Furnaces at Lowery AFB (Read 786 times)

[/quNo coal in my barrack in basic, but I did shovel some as a kid. My Grandmother kinda raised me and I remember as a young kid shoveling coal with my Grandfather. It's kind of interesting how some of us fall in the "cusp" of generations moving from the old milk doors and radio with the family at night to the newer age.ote]

I can relate to that some. My grandparents farm house in NE Pennsylvania was heated with coal when I was a kid. I remember the coal shut into the cellar. My uncle often got up in the middle of the night to make sure the auger was not stuck feed coal into the furnace. Later the converted to fuel oil.
In the winter the house was kept fairly cool. Heated enough to keep pipes from freezing. Grandma had a large woodburning stove with an oven in it located in the Kitchen. A fire was kept going in it all winter. The living-room was on one side of the kitchen and the dinning room on the other. The woodstove kept the downstairs pretty warm.
The upstairs was always chilly. If you were worried about going to bed and being gold under the blankets my grandma would heat up a brick on the stove top to put in the bed with you. The sheets in winter were all flannel as the cotton ones were too cold.
Try telling kids stuff like this now and they give you that look like you are crazy. :confused