[RP TownTalk] The good old days!

[David Lingua]

Yes. Yes it does.

--- On Wed, 8/6/08, CHRISTINA DAVIS <book-smart at verizon.net> wrote:
From: CHRISTINA DAVIS <book-smart at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] The good old days!
To: OurDollMom at aol.com, ABragg7393 at aol.com, towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 7:09 AM





 


 







Even after the metal cans
had outlived their usefulness, Public Works employees still pulled trash from
the back yards of older people or those with disabilities who could not set out
their own trash. Does the current program still make those accommodations?

 

Chris Davis

 

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Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] The
good old days!

 



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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