[RP TownTalk] The good old days!

[OurDollMom at aol.com]

Oh Audrey - you are so funny.  I remember those
days.  I never could get my bag to the curb w/o
it tearing up from so much trash & critters tugging
at it.  Good Ole Days.   Em
 
 
In a message dated 8/5/2008 4:12:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ABragg7393 at aol.com writes:

Does anyone remember back in the good ol' days (1970) when the town  
furnished each household with a metal trash can stand.  In this stand was  placed a 
paper bag  which was filled with trash.  The public  works people would walk 
down your driveway, yeah its true, and pick up the  paper bag and haul it away to 
the trash truck.  The town also furnished  the paper bags.  All included in 
our taxes which were quite low back  then.  We had fewer workers, trucks, staff 
then too.  It was  wonderful not to have to worry about totting  trash cans 
out to the curb  and actually made the town look better since there were never 
any containers  lining the streets waiting for people to come home from work 
or getting out on  the wrong day.  Then came the progress where we were 
instructed to haul  our own bags out to the street.  Saving time and money here.  So, 
 that wasn't so bad we got used to it.  Then came more progress.....those  
bags were getting messed up by the dogs and the birds and trash was getting  all 
over so now we would be required to get a container which had to meet  
specific specifications and haul that out to the street.  OK, we did  that.  Now we 
have progress again.  I can't wait to see what 2020  brings for us!   
Imagine.....no gas, so we have to wheel those  containers to the dump.  I can see the 
little old lady (that would be  me)  struggling down the East West Highway 
with my container.  I'm  smiling happy I'm still here to witness the progress!



 
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