I remember when there were only
two ways to heat your house. One was
the old-fashioned fire place with a
chimney, but a lot of the heat went up the
chimney. The other way was an iron,
coal-burning stove that sat out in the
room with a stove pipe going to the
enclosed fireplace to carry the smoke out.
Someone was always getting burned,
usually the women or children.  They
would back up to the fireplace to get
warm, and the draft from the chimney
would pull their dress or robe into the
fire. Children were usually falling into
the fireplace or on the heater. In those
days, some people claimed to have
special abilities to heal bums by "talking
the fire out" when someone got burned.

I remember when Mr. Harvey
Greene opened his propane gas company,
and the people in East Thomaston were
so glad because now we could get rid of
the wood and coal burning stoves.

I also remember when Atlanta Gas
Light Company began natural gas
service. This meant that a lot of people
had gas tanks they did not need any more.
Some were 250 gallons, some 500
gallons. Some were above ground, some
were buried. Mr. Green agreed to buy
them. Everyone was concerned about the
problem of digging up those tanks that
were buried. When the time came there
was an easy solution. They would dig a
small hole next to the tank, insert a water
hose, and run the water four to five hours.
When they came back later, the tank
would be floating on top of the ground.

I remember when, after World War
II was over, a loaf of bread was 9 cents, a
quart of milk was 16 cents, a gallon of
gas was 21 cents. The minimum wage
was 40 cents per hour.

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