Don't be a stranger, stranger.

I remember our kitchen table. Very 1950's. It had a quasi-formica top with an aluminum edging about 2" wide, with several horizontal ridges in it. It had a leaf that could be pulled up. Our kitchen was very small... as I've said, not even enough room for the refrigerator, but the five of us... my Mother and Father, my two older sisters and I managed to squeeze in around that small table with our backs up against the stove on one side, and Dad just about through the door into the dining room. Houses were sure set up oddly then. Our kitchen was very cramped, and yet we had a large dining room with a beautiful walnut table and six matching chairs. We probably at at that table five or six times a year... mostly on Holidays, and maybe a birthday. The rest of the time we crammed ourselves into the kitchen. But, respectable families had a dining room.

For many years, we ate on an oil cloth cover on the kitchen table. Anybody remember oil cloth? I wonder if they even make it any more...

Jerry