When I was in Junior High, I would walk up to the corner at the highway to wait for the schoolbus. A girl lived there right on the corner, and sometimes I would wait for her in the kitchen while she finished getting ready. Her mother used a curling iron to curl her hair. I do remember she put the ends of the curling iron in the flame on the stove, then curled her hair, but her hair always looked nice. Maybe she knew how long to leave it in the flame (gas stove) so it didn't get too hot to burn her hair.Another item they had on the table was a toaster where you put the bread on the side, flipped the cover up to hold the bread in, then when one side was done, you flipped the bread over and toasted the other side. We didn't have a toaster and I was fascinated with that toaster, I thought that was so neat. <g>Emma > From: helenware@comcast.net > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:44:00 -0500 > Subject: Re: [ML] Cups and saucers > > I remember that cooking a turkey was an all night thing-hours and hours! > You would think those curling irons right into the flames would have burned > their hair! > Helen > > >