"Bless Your Little Pea Picking Heart" Tennessee Ernie Ford
"Much obliged" meant thank you
"Tight as a Tick"
"Topping the hill"
# 2 washtubs
A man walking down the road with a guitar over his shoulder meant he was "sorry"
A paper bag was called a poke
Aspirin meant either BC or Goodys
Attending a pig pickin'
Blue Ridge pottery or Southern pottery
Bowl of plastic fruit on dining room table
Buying license plates in Kentucky because they were cheaper
Cake walks at school carnivals
Carbide lights and dinner buckets
Carrying groceries home in a gunny sack
Catching ground squirrels
Channel "surfing" might pick up a faraway TV station early in morning or late at night
Checking for yellow jackets and spiders before sitting down on the outhouse seat
Chopping kindling and shoveling coal
Claw foot bathtubs
Coal pile, wood pile, kindling pile
Cooling butter, milk, muskmelons and watermelons in the springhouse
Coon dogs
Crowning of the school King and Queen
Delivering Grit newspaper
Digging nightcrawlers for fish bait
Dirtdobbers, doodlebugs, woolyworms, June bugs
Dogs chasing cars
Dogs with mange
Doilies on every piece of furniture
Dolly Partin on the Cas Walker Show
Don't eat the first snow
Drinking from a dipper at the springhouse
Each family had a ticket for running a tab at the country store
Electricity was called juice
Everybody owning a dog
Everything unwanted went into the creek
Fascination with Cudjo's Cave
Finding an arrowhead, ceramic marbles, an Indian head penny, or script
Fishing in Straight Creek, North Fork, Powell River, Norris Lake
Following the play up and down the sidelines at the football game
Four digit phone numbers
Gathering every night at first house that had a TV to see a snowy picture
Gee and haw
Getting a haircut with hand clippers and how they pulled
Going to Chilhowie Park in Knoxville
Going to the woods and chopping a cedar tree for a Christmas tree
Gourd bird houses
Government cheese, powdered milk, powdered eggs
Grapette, Nehi, and Bubble Up
Hand pumping water from the well
Hearing roosters crow as miners were heading to work
Hiding out when company came to the house
Hole in shoe referred to as "toes coming out to eat grass"
Homemade knives for sale by roadside vendors
Indian Chief for TV test pattern before signing on
Jockey lots
John L. Lewis
Kettle of water on Warm Morning stove for humidity
Kids getting worms
Kids playing their own football game off the sidelines at every game
Killing seven flies with one swat
Knowing all the engine numbers for the Southern and L&N railroad lines
Knowing everybody's dog by name
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Lights out because your house just "blew a fuse"
Listening to the Grand Ole Oprey on Saturday night
Listening to WCKY from Cincinnati Ohio
Looking for the goat man on way to Myrtle Beach
Loyalty to University of Tennessee athletics
Making and flying your own kite
Marbles, innies, steelees, cat's eyes, funsees, keeps, taws, aggies, fudging, lagging, English
Men covered with coal dust
Men had names like: Worley, Clyde, Enos, Homer, Cecil, Doyle, Toy
Monday was wash day
Old folks going to Florence, South Carolina for false teeth
Paths to the outhouse, the coal pile, and the well
Pinto beans and cornbread was a complete meal
Potato Chip bags had a little sack of something you weren’t supposed to eat (supposedly to keep them fresh)
Playing hits and cracks with a pack of Camels
Playing mumble peg or worse yet root the peg
Plugging watermelons at the Cold Spot
Pollywogs, salamanders, skinks
Rain barrels
Red eye gravy and country ham
Refrigerator was called the Frigidaire and old folks still called it the ice box
Road blockades were kerosene flame pots
Rocking chairs, gliders, davenports on front porch
Scabs
Scarecrows
Screen doors patched with cotton balls
Second hand stores
Seeing Sputnik pass over
Seeing the sun go down as miners were heading home
Seining "minners" in the creek
Selling Rosebud salve
Selling scrap iron
Shelling peas, shucking corn, or stringing beans on the front porch
Slate dumps
Sledding downhill on a car hood
Snow days from school
Soldiers coming home with satin jackets from Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Philippines
Sorry mean "no good"
Souvenirs; always from somebody else who went to Florida
Squeak of a front porch swing
Stove pipes getting red hot
Strange policemen in town during miner's strikes
Stringbean and Grandpa Jones
Strollin' with Bert Vincent in Knoxville News Sentinel
Sunbeams through window lights revealing coal dust in the air
Sweeping the yard
The "bottom" by the creek
The old man that looked like his Studebaker truck
Thread spool used for screen door handle
Tipples
TV antenna on top of every ridge
Unpainted houses with tin roofs
Using broom straw for a toothpick
Veterans returned to finish high school
Waiting on the Powell Valley News on Thursday afternoon
Walking sticks
Walking to school, church, town, store, or to visit neighbors and relatives
Warm Morning coal stoves
WATE Knoxville, TN Channel 6
WBTV Charlotte, NC Channel 3
Windows open and doors unlocked, all welcome
Windows were called window lights
WLOS Asheville, NC Channel 13
Women had names like: Gladys, Myrtle, Inez, Lenore, Beulah, Stella,
Wringer washer on the back porch and clothesline in backyard
Yellow stained fingers from cracking walnuts
Your first taste of "finger lickin good" Kentucky Fried Chicken