The in between spaces

Ok...ready to head back inside? Enter the back door, through the kitchen, dining room and living room. Take a right into the hallway. There is a round top niche here, built into the wall for the telephone. This is not where the phone was kept in my memory. It is on a phone table with a little seat built in. And make no mistake this is a major phone. Heavy enough to kill somebody. Not the old heavy plastic kind. This puppy was some kind of heavy metal, with a metal rotary dial. Next to the phone was a desk set, consisting of pencil holder, oval catch all and I can't remember what else. It was decorated with stamps from around the world. I still use it. Oh and an address book that had a little tab on the side that you slid up and down to select a letter of the alphabet. Then when you pushed a button it magically opened to the letter you were searching for. Very cool stuff. Oh, and be careful not to step on the floor furnace grate with bare feet.
 

A small (by today's standards) bathroom is right ahead. A big ole white cast iron tub, toilet and hanging heavy white sink with chrome finishes fill the room. Little white hexagon tiles line the floor. But the best part was the medicine cabinet. It was mounted above the sink and had a mirrored front. Inside were glass shelves. There was a slit in the back wall for used razor blades. That means in every house of this era razor blades were dropped into the wall space. Also of great interest to me was a little pot of butch wax. What is butch wax you ask? In the 1950's boys had short "crew" cuts. They made them stand up straight with the butch wax. Apparently Mamaw couldn't bear to throw away Jack's last jar. It became a little shrine to him. We all loved to open it and smell it.