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Post by patriciaanne on Jan 25, 2023 15:49:36 GMT -5
How John managed to have ANY free time at all
Work the mill, gotta cut up wood in forest for the mill + for the house and hunt for food
Hunting was part of what he did in his free time. He enjoyed it. The fact that it provided food was a bonus. 😉 |
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Jan 25, 2023 21:36:21 GMT -5
I wondered how they all were so well fed for a family that large in the depression.
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Post by noplacelikehome on Jan 25, 2023 23:18:57 GMT -5
I keep thinking Olivia could have sold that lovely pink hobnail lamp in her bedroom, and the family would have had plenty of extra money. Maybe it was a gift from a relative and she couldn't part with it.  |
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Post by patriciaanne on Jan 26, 2023 4:54:56 GMT -5
I wondered how they all were so well fed for a family that large in the depression. Earl has mentioned that his family always ate well. The Depression didn't hit people as hard in the country as it did in the city. In the country you can provide for yourself. First, they had a very robust garden. We can assume that between the fresh veggies and the canning they would have done, they had vegetables and maybe even fruit all year long. They also raised animals. They had pigs for meat, a cow for milk (and butter, cream, cheese) and chickens for eggs. They didn't show it, but I'm sure they had meat chickens as well as laying hens. And I bet even the laying hens got eaten when they were all egged out. They also didn't show much of this (other than the Calf episode), but in order to keep producing milk, the cow would have had to be freshened (give birth to a calf) every year. The smart thing would have been to cross her with a good meat bull and then raise the calf for slaughter. And finally, John could go out and hunt whenever he had a notion to. Earl said it wasn't unusual to come down to breakfast and find a feast of bobwhite quail his father had just harvested. They were also able to go fishing in the Rockfish river. I would say it wasn't hard at all for them to eat well. |
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Jan 26, 2023 19:06:59 GMT -5
I keep thinking Olivia could have sold that lovely pink hobnail lamp in her bedroom, and the family would have had plenty of extra money. Maybe it was a gift from a relative and she couldn't part with it. I loved the lamp |
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Post by Corn Pone Walton on Jan 26, 2023 19:12:43 GMT -5
I wondered how they all were so well fed for a family that large in the depression. Earl has mentioned that his family always ate well. The Depression didn't hit people as hard in the country as it did in the city. In the country you can provide for yourself. First, they had a very robust garden. We can assume that between the fresh veggies and the canning they would have done, they had vegetables and maybe even fruit all year long. They also raised animals. They had pigs for meat, a cow for milk (and butter, cream, cheese) and chickens for eggs. They didn't show it, but I'm sure they had meat chickens as well as laying hens. And I bet even the laying hens got eaten when they were all egged out. They also didn't show much of this (other than the Calf episode), but in order to keep producing milk, the cow would have had to be freshened (give birth to a calf) every year. The smart thing would have been to cross her with a good meat bull and then raise the calf for slaughter. And finally, John could go out and hunt whenever he had a notion to. Earl said it wasn't unusual to come down to breakfast and find a feast of bobwhite quail his father had just harvested. They were also able to go fishing in the Rockfish river. I would say it wasn't hard at all for them to eat well. I do recall many times watching the show and they would have the dinner table scenes that they would be eating fried chicken for the meal. It was quite a bit of fried chicken as well from what I remember and it looked pretty tasty to me. They certainly weren't buying that from Ike Godsey's store I wouldn't think. |
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Post by patriciaanne on Jan 28, 2023 16:54:22 GMT -5
^^^ Although on the set it was probably Kentucky Fried Chicken. 😄 They did have a kitchen where they prepared certain food, but I also remember, I think, Kami saying that sometimes they got KFC. I know the soup was from a can.
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Post by runhard on Jan 28, 2023 19:31:19 GMT -5
What has me scratchng my head is how everything in the attic survived the house fire. Yep the entire top floor was supposedly destroyed by fire yet we saw Livy in the attic looking inside her hope chest. |
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Post by runhard on Jan 28, 2023 19:40:37 GMT -5
I always wondered when A.J. Covington (Andy to his friends) returns in The Abdication and now doing quite well for himself why he didn't ask Ike if he could buy his watch back?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 20:32:30 GMT -5
This made me scratch my head and mostly in the earlier episodes I saw this. The kids would walk to school and to the Godsey's Store with no shoes on. They would also play with no shoes on. The roads were all dirt roads and many times they were playing in woodsy areas that had to have a lot of rough things all over the ground. You never saw them getting cuts, splinters, or any other injuries to their feet from what I remember. They must have had some tough feet.
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Post by Easton on Jan 31, 2023 21:36:47 GMT -5
Shoes were expensive back then. And with 7 kids, they were very expensive. They filmed on a studio lot most of the time and, after a season or two, it was decided that the lot was not a safe place for kids to run around in bare feet so, all of a sudden, the kids had shoes.
I grew up in the 1950s and often went barefoot outside. The soles of the feet toughed up quickly enough.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 21:41:33 GMT -5
Shoes were expensive back then. And with 7 kids, they were very expensive. They filmed on a studio lot most of the time and, after a season or two, it was decided that the lot was not a safe place for kids to run around in bare feet so, all of a sudden, the kids had shoes.
I grew up in the 1950s and often went barefoot outside. The soles of the feet toughed up quickly enough.
I would not do very well with that because I am a person who gets cold really fast and my feet are the worst with that. |
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Post by goodnight on Feb 1, 2023 7:10:29 GMT -5
When this issue about shoes has been discussed before, I believe someone brought up the fact that all the kids on "Little House On The Prairie" always had shoes on in scenes. Michael Landon was unwilling for the children in the cast to maybe get hurt by walking around in bare feet on the set. Although, in the books in the chapter that shows Laura and Mary going to school for the first time, I recall the illustration in the book showed them barefoot and wearing dresses that they were growing out of.
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Post by Brenda on Feb 1, 2023 9:02:43 GMT -5
When this issue about shoes has been discussed before, I believe someone brought up the fact that all the kids on "Little House On The Prairie" always had shoes on in scenes. Michael Landon was unwilling for the children in the cast to maybe get hurt by walking around in bare feet on the set. Although, in the books in the chapter that shows Laura and Mary going to school for the first time, I recall the illustration in the book showed them barefoot and wearing dresses that they were growing out of. Yes, it’s in the book On the Banks of Plum Creek. Mary and Laura were embarrassed because their dresses were shorter than the town girls’ dresses. When Laura saw Nellie Oleson for the first time, she described her hair and dress and noted that she wore shoes. I remember reading that Michael Landon didn’t allow them to go barefoot for safety reasons even though in real life the children would have been barefoot. Judy also commented on this in a recent video. The children on The Waltons did go barefoot a lot in Season 1, but after that, it was decided they would wear shoes for safety reasons. My parents grew up during the depression in rural areas much like Waltons Mountain, my mother in Kentucky and my dad in North Carolina. They both told me that they always went barefoot in warm weather and saved their shoes for winter. When they outgrew their shoes, they were handed down to a younger sibling, and they would have to wear shoes that an older sibling had outgrown. It’s just the way things were back then.  |
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