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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts) Wed Mar 7, 2018, 05:45 PM Mar 2018

Remember when?

We knew that spring was around the corner when my mother bought a new one for the kitchen table, put the old kitchen one on the picnic table, and the picnic table one in the doghouse!

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Remember when? (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 OP

in the 60s i remember it being sold on bolts in dime stores samnsara Mar 2018 #1

Yep! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #6

I don't remember using these at home Ohiogal Mar 2018 #2

Good idea! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #7

Yes, and they had a smell like nothing else, but you KNEW it was oilcloth. Glorfindel Mar 2018 #3

You sure are right about the smell! Ohiogal Mar 2018 #4

Smells like,.... Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #8

Did your dog set a nice table? rsdsharp Mar 2018 #5

Surprisingly so, considering she Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #9

I think fundamentally rsdsharp Mar 2018 #10

Ah ha! I think youve Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #11

Or Thumb! rsdsharp Mar 2018 #12

samnsara

(17,622 posts)

1. in the 60s i remember it being sold on bolts in dime stores

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Wed Mar 7, 2018, 05:47 PM

Mar 2018

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

6. Yep! 👍🏻

Reply to samnsara (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:21 PM

Mar 2018

Ohiogal

(32,002 posts)

2. I don't remember using these at home

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Wed Mar 7, 2018, 05:47 PM

Mar 2018

But we each had one that covered our school desks for art class.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

7. Good idea! 👍🏻

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 8, 2018, 12:22 PM

Mar 2018

Glorfindel

(9,730 posts)

3. Yes, and they had a smell like nothing else, but you KNEW it was oilcloth.

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Wed Mar 7, 2018, 05:50 PM

Mar 2018

My mother used them for the kitchen table (never the dining room table!) and for outdoor tables. I suppose they got thrown away after that. I don't ever remember seeing one on the doghouse. But I absolutely remember that strawberry design or one almost exactly like it.