Participants: Joyce Neal
Series Code: GH
Program Code: GH000016
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00:01 Hi there kids, welcome back to Grandma's House.
00:03 I have a favorite grandson with me here today, 00:07 this is Ryan. 00:08 We haven't been doing much special, just hanging out until 00:12 a few minutes ago and something really fun and interesting 00:16 pulled into our driveway. 00:17 Should we go and check it out? - sure. 00:19 Alright let's go. There is a vehicle up here, the kind 00:25 that I have wanted all of my life. 00:28 I'll bet you will be surprised when you see it, Oh I love 00:31 this vehicle, and here's the fine gentlemen who owns it. 00:35 Hi there Mike - I'm Mike, - Hi Mike. 00:38 Mike Dunes from Centralia, 00:41 Just close by. - yes, now tell me about this car. 00:46 I have just fallen in love with it. 00:48 This car is in 1914 Model T. Ford. 00:51 It sold for $440 brand-new back in 1914, that was 93 years 00:57 ago and in seven more years it will be a hundred years old. 01:03 So anyway this car is in its original condition, it has 01:08 been repainted one time and it runs and drives beautifully. 01:13 Shall we start it up? - yeah, how do you start it? 01:17 Well they start with this crank. 01:22 And what we do is engage the crank and it catches the 01:26 ratchet on the engine and turns it over. 01:28 Was that hard? - no not too bad. 01:32 But you have to be careful and not advance the spark, as long 01:37 as this spark lever is up when you start the car, it's 01:40 okay, but if you pull it down - then what happens? 01:44 You could get hurt, so let's pull this up and give it 01:48 a little bit throttle and turn the spark on. 01:50 All right come on. 01:52 We will push this in and crank it over and hope that 01:58 it will start. - oh look at it! 02:01 When it starts to go you have to advance this. 02:04 Oh I love it. - it smoothes it out, it's a manual advance. 02:12 So let's get in the car - and take it for a little spin. 02:15 Sure let's try it. - okay you drive. 02:18 All right let's go. 02:29 Here we go. 03:01 This thing is capable of going 35 miles an hour. 03:06 Oh that's nice - that's a top speed. 03:08 What's the longest trip you had her on? 03:10 This car I had about 50 miles. 03:14 This is the speedometer - yet that's the speedometer. 03:21 You know this used to be quite a thing when people will 03:25 go out for a Sunday drive with their whole family. 03:51 What fun is this? Whew here we go. 03:58 Wahoo. 04:06 Ah another thing about these old cars is that when 04:10 you went out at night you had headlights, but they 04:13 weren't quite like the headlights we have today. 04:16 So Mike tell us about these lights, tell us how they work. 04:20 Well these are actually carbide lights for late, pure dark 04:23 but just before dark or dusk you could run on these 04:26 - oh how romantic. These kerosene lights. 04:29 These are carbide and these are kerosene and you just light 04:34 it in here on the wick and close the little door. 04:38 oh isn't that neat? It reminds me of the old lamp lighters 04:42 so that when it got darker you would light these also? 04:46 Yeah these weren't safe enough for driving at high speeds 04:50 so then these were activated and they showed 04:53 up pretty good at night. 04:54 So okay grandma lets see if you can start it up. 04:57 Oh what a challenge, I don't know - turn the crank. 04:59 I'm game for anything so let's see. 05:01 What do you do? Do you push it in. 05:03 You push it in - push in first - and turn the switch on. 05:06 Yeah you have TO turn the switch on. 05:21 Okay one more time, I'm going to do this if it kills me. 05:25 It might, all right Yahhhhh! 05:34 Well almost, I'm getting there, I'm getting there. 05:38 One more time - push it a little more. 05:52 There's got to be a trick to this old car. 05:56 It's harder than it looks. 06:02 Well I don't know, I just don't know. 06:05 You know what this old car reminds me of some kids I know. 06:08 Sometimes they're kind of cranky and it's hard to get them 06:11 started, but I'm not going to give up. 06:13 I'm going to start some more. Let's try it one more time. 06:16 All right let's do it. 06:48 Mike I just got to thank you so much for bringing it over. 06:51 Now you show me how to properly start this engine. 06:54 Well I think I can do it, it should go. 06:57 Did you turn on all right switches? 07:00 I don't know if I believe you are not. 07:08 I'll go around a couple of times and there we go. 07:11 Oh, just like that. Oh thank you. 07:13 All it takes is a little muscle. 07:14 Hey kids Graham Joyce would love to hear from you. 07:20 So why not sit down and write her a letter? 07:23 Like every grandma she loves to get pictures, 07:25 drawings or anything else you send her. 07:28 Just write to: 07:41 So what are you waiting for? Write her today. 07:47 Alright you guys stop the snickering. 07:49 I never did get that engine to turn over for me. 07:52 Mike sure made it look easy, but I found that old car 07:56 was stubborn as a mule. 07:58 What a blast to putt around in that snazzy jalopy, 08:02 just like the grand old days of the very first automobiles. 08:06 If I was a rich grandma, I'd love to buy an old tiny car 08:10 fix it up and load all you kids in the back. 08:13 Then off we would go for the ride of a lifetime. 08:15 Wouldn't we be something? We could dress up in top hats 08:20 and duster coats and go touring over Hill and Dale to the 08:24 delight and amazement of all of our friends. 08:26 We would pack a picnic lunch and we would dash off to 08:30 the beach whenever we wanted. 08:32 Play in the sand all day and drive home again at night 08:35 under the summer stars. 08:38 Ah how fun it is to imagine and dream, to aspire and to 08:44 reach in one's mind for something elusive. 08:46 To be able to enjoy the imagination is much of a reality 08:50 and it is a real blessing from God you know. 08:52 Share an imagination among friends is another way of 08:56 of binding our hearts together in oneness. 08:58 When we dream together, we turn from looking at each other 09:03 to all of us looking in the same direction. 09:06 Our hearts react just as if we really done the thing 09:09 we dreamed about, it helps us love each other more. 09:13 It kind of reminding me of what it is like chasing 09:16 butterflies, they are so beautiful and delicate. 09:19 We just want to hold them in our hands. 09:22 So off we go following them where ever they float, 09:25 just out of reach but we keep following and reaching 09:29 forward while all the time they lure us with silent 09:33 tugs of fascination. 09:34 Just one beautiful butterfly followed by 09:38 a dozen dreaming children. 09:40 But with butterflies at least it's probably best to never 09:43 actually hold one in your hand, unless it lights on 09:47 your fingers of itself, some dreams are like that too. 09:51 They are delightful to imagine, fun to think about, 09:54 but best not caught less it lands right in your hand and 09:58 then it's a gift from God sent to bless your heart and 10:01 you can enjoy it until your hearts content. 10:04 Well I certainly don't know how I ended up out here 10:09 in dream land, do you? 10:11 I must've been having butterfly thoughts again, 10:13 and I really wanted to show you some other 10:16 cranky things from the past. 10:18 When grandpa was still a boy, his grandpa owned a big 10:22 farm in Pennsylvania and one of the cranky things 10:26 on the farm was a machine that was used 10:28 to separate milk and cream. 10:31 Now in case you didn't realize it when milk comes 10:34 fresh from the cow it doesn't come homogenized like 10:37 you get in the store. 10:38 I'm sure most of you know this, but maybe you are a kid 10:41 who just never thought about it before. 10:43 If you put fresh from the cow milk in a bottle and set 10:46 it aside for a little while, the cream will rise to the 10:49 top and it will leave the milk on the bottom. 10:51 Well if you have lots of cows and you sell their milk 10:55 to a dairy or a creamery, you get a different price 10:57 according to how much cream there is in the milk. 11:01 Well back in the old days farmers would use a cream 11:04 separator to do the job faster than letting milk 11:07 sit on a shelf. 11:08 It was a bit clunky old thing, with spigots and spouts 11:12 all over the place. 11:13 It had an opening at the top where you poured in the milk 11:16 and a crank on the side to turn the gears and the flywheels 11:19 inside its belly. 11:21 I don't know exactly how it worked, but it spun the 11:25 milk around inside its self and because the cream was 11:28 heavier it eventually shot off in one direction while 11:31 the milk went somewhere else. 11:33 It was a wonderfully ingenious invention, dreamed up in 11:38 someone's mind to make things better in the world. 11:41 You know most anything we do with electricity today 11:45 was once done with cranks and pulleys and muscles. 11:48 But my favorite cranky thing from my very own childhood, 11:52 could you guess? I had a little toy washing machine 11:57 that could wash my dolls clothes and it had a crank on 12:01 the side too, but that wasn't my favorite. 12:03 I had my bike which was kind of cranky with legs, 12:07 but that is not it either. 12:08 My very favorite cranky thing was the ice cream freezer. 12:13 We'd take it out on a hot summer afternoon with all the 12:16 relatives around and here is how this thing worked. 12:20 Mama would make up a big batch of our favorite flavor 12:23 and then she would pour the liquid into this can. 12:26 Can you see it in there? Then she would put on the lid. 12:30 Before that she would put in this paddle, this is 12:33 the thing that turns and made the ice cream come from 12:36 the outside of the can to the inside. 12:38 At last daddy would pack the bucket with all kinds of rock 12:41 salt and ice in layers. 12:44 I tell you what, the most fun part, the cranking could begin. 12:49 Everybody wanted to crank at first because it was 12:53 easier then, all the big boys started turning. 12:58 It seemed to take forever but eventually it would be 13:01 time to take the paddle out again. 13:03 All the cousins would gather around hoping to get 13:06 the first licks, Yum, Yum. 13:09 Ice cream would stick in all those little crevices. 13:12 There is nothing you can get in the store today that 13:16 can hold a candle to what we made it home together. 13:19 All around a little bucket with a cranky handle. 13:22 So as I leave you here is some thing I want you to remember. 13:27 Cranky things are for using, cranky people are for cheering 13:31 up, and your mind, well just get it cranking out some 13:36 happy thoughts and ingenious inventions. 13:39 I love you guys all so much, until next time 13:42 don't you be a crank. 13:49 No I'm going to do this or die. 13:52 Which way, which way does it crank this way or this way? 13:54 You can only go one way. 13:56 Push it in. 13:58 There's too many horses in this engine. |
Revised 2014-12-17