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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsRemember orange crates? In 40s-50s we used them as night tables at camp
Some yrs ago I bought 2 at a flea market. Family helping me downsize didn't see any point in keeping them----sigh!
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Thanks for that memory! Bedside tables at camp. Skits. Pranks. Campfire.
Ahhhhhhhh.
cachukis
(2,200 posts)proud patriot
(100,700 posts)3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)There was a rustic hippie charm to that simple decor. I had some for several years.
Hotler
(11,353 posts)doc03
(35,143 posts)Orange crates, no seat belts they would hang you for that today.
frogmarch
(12,144 posts)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.
MLAA
(17,162 posts)2naSalit
(86,038 posts)csziggy
(34,119 posts)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)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)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)But in college in the 80s I repurposed 4 of the elongated milk crates from 7/11 for book shelfs. Held them together with shoe laces tied through the end handles.
bottomofthehill
(8,261 posts)KT2000
(20,544 posts)They are very practical.