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Old Kitchen Artifacts

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Posted by Ira on Wednesday, September 30th 2026:

We had a dumbwaiter in our kitchen that I was told used to ferry garbage down to the basement before I was born. Under the kitchen window was a cabinet that my mother called a potato bin. We kept used paper grocery bags in it. There was a box on the wall behind our stove that used to hold matches for lighting the burner before it was updated to use a pilot light. And finally there were two mysterious metal plates on one wall. Apparently there used to be candle sconces there long before we moved in that had been removed.

Reference ID: BX93550

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