Re: Henry's 55 Constellation

Posted by PackardV8 On 2010/11/2 22:30:37

I'm not sure but i believe the 7 foot door was an old pre-1920's standard. Many houses and buildings of 'better quality' had 10 foot ceilings and used a transem over the top of the door. Transems were usualy about a foot high giving an even standard 8 feet.

I lived in a house in the Detroit area that was built in 1919. 10' ceilings and transems over entry doors and 2wo of the interior doors. It was a rental so i never bothered to measure them.

BTW. the house also had LEAD water service pipes from the street into the house basement where the meter was. Had to let the meter reader in to read the meter every month.

Hot water tank (electric) had somekind of radio controlled switch box near the regular power switch box thing that Detroit Edison Electric company would send out a radio signal about 8pm at nite to shut it off and then another signal to turn it back on about 4 AM.

I often hear so much recent nonsense about carbon foot printing, saving energy, toxic shock syndromes and many other such wet dreams of delusive concepts that only a moron could believe in. Then i think back to some of the fine life style items of the 1920's thru the 1960's and wonder how i ever lived thru all of it and WITH all of it to have stayed so healthy to this day.