How much money do you think that you should get paid if you
work for 18 hours? Listen to this story about working in a general
store 50 years ago.
**Click on the picture of the egg crate to hear the story. |

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| Would you want someone listening in on your phone
calls? Click on the switchboard to the right to hear one
story that got home before the girl did! |

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| Would you trade your MP3 player in for this?? Listen to the phonograph
on the right before you decide!
Click here for a description of how
the phonograph worked. |

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| Have you ever tried warming your feet in the oven??
Listen to this story about the New Brunswick stove.
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| How do you think that you could check the oven
temperature in the days before the electric stove? Click here to
find out! |

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| This straight razor was for shaving a person's
face... not the prickles off a cactus. Listen to this story of what
happens when you don't follow the rules! |

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| Could you imagine how difficult it would be to make a
newspaper with a printing press like this one? Listen to this
story about the Gladstone Press of long ago. |

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