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Remember orange crates? In 40s-50s we used them as night tables at camp (Original Post) bobbieinok May 2020 OP
yes! Grasswire2 May 2020 #1
To store albums. cachukis May 2020 #2
they were perfect for that proud patriot May 2020 #3
Good for book shelves, too. 3catwoman3 May 2020 #5
Peaches Records and Tapes...... I still have four, with albums. nt Hotler May 2020 #6
When I was a teenager my buddy had orange crates for a front seat in his 51 Ford. doc03 May 2020 #4
As a little kid in the early 1950s frogmarch May 2020 #7
Sounds like you had a cool dad 🙂 MLAA May 2020 #12
Them thangs are bonyfide furniture! 2naSalit May 2020 #8
Oh, yeah - I grew up in Central Florida and my family owned orange groves csziggy May 2020 #9
There was an estate sale recently in Highland City ... lpbk2713 May 2020 #13
Oh, yeah, the whole citrus thing was tops in that area csziggy May 2020 #15
Orange crates no bottomofthehill May 2020 #10
This was the look bottomofthehill May 2020 #11
I still use some!! KT2000 May 2020 #14

3catwoman3

(23,812 posts)
5. Good for book shelves, too.
Sat May 23, 2020, 08:58 PM
May 2020

There was a rustic hippie charm to that simple decor. I had some for several years.

doc03

(35,143 posts)
4. When I was a teenager my buddy had orange crates for a front seat in his 51 Ford.
Sat May 23, 2020, 08:49 PM
May 2020

Orange crates, no seat belts they would hang you for that today.

frogmarch

(12,144 posts)
7. As a little kid in the early 1950s
Sat May 23, 2020, 09:38 PM
May 2020

I made space ships in my backyard out of orange crates by attaching wire coat hangers and junky odds and ends to them. When the stars came out in the evening, I'd lie in one of my space ships and look at the stars. Sometimes my dad joined me and pointed out constellations. He told me about cepheid stars and I wrote a little song about them to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Seeing an orange crate now brings me happy memories.

csziggy

(34,119 posts)
9. Oh, yeah - I grew up in Central Florida and my family owned orange groves
Sat May 23, 2020, 10:47 PM
May 2020

We mostly used them to make furniture for our playhouse when we were kids. Mom had a collection of orange company labels, but I think she gave them to the local Polk County History Museum in Bartow, Florida.

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
13. There was an estate sale recently in Highland City ...
Sun May 24, 2020, 12:40 AM
May 2020


that had several orange crates for sale. I didn't go, I just remember the pictures.

Remember when Lakeland was called The World's Citrus Center?

csziggy

(34,119 posts)
15. Oh, yeah, the whole citrus thing was tops in that area
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:10 AM
May 2020

On the truck route/US 98 south of Brooksville there is a big dome building that used to sell citrus to tourists . Now it is a church. There was another one on US 27 between Lake Wales and Orlando, but so much has been built up - and I don't go that way much - I'm not sure it is still there.

Do you remember when the area around Bartow was called Bone Valley for the stuff found along with the phosphate? My grandfather and Dad were both phosphate mining engineers. Back in the '20s and '30s Granddad would pay workers for any interesting bones they found. He donated some to museums. We have a letter from the Natural History Museum in Chicago thanking him for a dugong bone he donated. He had sharks teethe 6-8" across!

bottomofthehill

(8,261 posts)
10. Orange crates no
Sat May 23, 2020, 10:57 PM
May 2020

But in college in the 80s I repurposed 4 of the elongated milk crates from 7/11 for book shelf’s. Held them together with shoe laces tied through the end handles.

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