We had the ones in the floor, that is where I headed when I came in from sledding how fast you would get warm. also put mittens socks and shoes to dry out. Does any one remember belly flopping? I had to teach my kids and thier friends how !! Betty > From: DieselDis@aol.com > Date: 2002/12/16 Mon AM 11:35:41 GMT+01:00 > To: NJ-MEMORIES-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NJ-Memories] House Radiators > > In a message dated 12/15/02 3:29:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, > PalmaG72@aol.com writes: > > > I use to love sitting on the Radiators - but my butt told me when to get off > > > > --LOL - Remember those Floor Radiators - when we first moved in an old > > house > > on Garfield &Farragut Aves (Diesel knows where) we had one in the Dining > > room - it didn't heat the whole house - seemed like it only heated the > > dining > > and living room -I use to stand on it with a chenile robe ( remember those) > > > > and my family would say I was taking up all the heat in the robe > > -----another > > LOL -------it didn't last long for the next year my Parents had an oil > > burner put in with radiators in the rooms ( the sit on kind) -------Marie G > > > > > Marie, We had one of those when we lived on Hamton St. back in the > forty's. It was right over the heater in the basement. It was just a big > grill in the floor in the dinning room. My dad would fire up the heater with > coal before he want to work in the AM, and us kid's would run downstairs in > the morning, and get dressed on it. There was no heat anywhere else in the > house, only vents in the ceiling's for the heat to get upstairs. In those > days, my Mom would heat bricks and put them at the end of our beds to keep > our feet warm during the night. The good old days. > Diesel > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >