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Heat Source

On It — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:15:35 GMT

Did you have one of these? My childhood home had one in the den where we watched TV. Wall panels heated the house, but that was our cozy room for days like this. All of our heat was powered by butane (propane is today's term) stored in a tank beside our home. Farm life.

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LindaSal — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:18:44 GMT

Yes, we had gas heat and a very similar looking furnace in the 60's that used to have that big silver venting pipe attached to it. Geez, I had forgotten all about that........it took up a lot of space in our kitchen!

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SilleeMee — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:52:34 GMT

We had these kinds of natural gas wall panels in some of the places where we lived. Usually the only place warm was in the room where that panel was located. Everywhere else was cold. Hated it.

BTW, butane is not the same thing as propane.

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I am still oxox — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:59:00 GMT

I have old fashioned radiators and steam pipes, the trouble is my main room is 22 ft by 12ft with three window and a small radiator at the end of the room. We use a space heater to warm the area where we sit

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On It — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:05:40 GMT

@SilleeMee Those are the wall panels we had to heat the home. They left cold spots. The little guy in the picture was small. Maybe 2 feet wide and 3 feet tall. It was not vented outside, but had a direct line from the tank to the heater. I do not believe that would be up to today's codes, but it was warm.

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SandySparkles — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:58:26 GMT

What a comforting memory this morning!❤ My dear grandmother had one similar in her den as well, and because there was no door in the doorway, she had a sheet that she would let down to hold the heat in on frosty winter mornings.😊

I was stubborn, and what she called "hard-headed" as a child and would sometimes push boundaries, but after a "singe" or two, I knew not to get too close! I can still hear her fussing at me.😂

I am smiling as I reminisce, and THANK YOU for sharing this distant, soul hugging memory from my childhood!🥰

~~~All we need is LOVE💖

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SilleeMee — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:36:03 GMT

@On It

I lived in an old house that was built in the late 1800's. It still had an old coal shoot out back and also the original coal stove in the basement. Upstairs on the main floor there was this grate on the floor in the middle of the living room, off to one side. The rest of the house had radiators but those were an upgrade along with a natural gas boiler to heat them.

I can't imagine that this would be the only heat source but it was in that old house.

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shoesnbags — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:45:59 GMT

We had similar heaters in our shotgun house when I was growing up in the 1950s-60s in New Orleans. But no propane - natural gas powered the space heaters, hot water heater and stove. It was piped into the house from municipal source, just like water.

I cringe when I think about how dangerous those things were in a house with children by today's standards. But none of us were ever hurt. And I loved to come inside on a cold day and stand right in front of that heater to warm up.

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RedTop — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:11:23 GMT

Our house was heated by a wood and coal furnace; heat register in the kitchen heated that room, bathroom and boys bedroom. Second register in the hallway kept the living room and front bedrooms warm. The register was right outside my bedroom door and kept my room HOT, as the furnace was under my bedroom floor and the flue was behind the sheet rock wall behind my door. I tried to keep my door shut to keep my room cool and was caught numerous times with my window open. Our house was always 80 and above.

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Desertdi — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:27:33 GMT

@SilleeMee wrote:
We had these kinds of natural gas wall panels in some of the places where we lived. Usually the only place warm was in the room where that panel was located. Everywhere else was cold. Hated it.

BTW, butane is not the same thing as propane.

@SilleeMee I had one of those in an old apartment in L.A. in the 1970s. One day I stood too close to it...and my WIG got singed!! di

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SilleeMee — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:32:30 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
@SilleeMee I had one of those in an old apartment in L.A. in the 1970s. One day I stood too close to it...and my WIG got singed!! di

@Desertdi

Omg! I know those things were so dangerous.

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goldensrbest — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:36:15 GMT

Living in southern Indiana, we lived in quite a few homes,mostly rented most people had coal, with the shoot in the basement, others had a stand alone stove type thing,not sure if it was coal,don't think so.

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SaveTheTurtles — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:37:15 GMT

Never had any of those. We always had gas furnace. That looks very dangerous and HOT. I would think kids could have been burned by it.

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PA Mom-mom — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:32:58 GMT

@On It When DH and I got married, we moved into a half a house on my grandparents farm. The propane space heater was the only heat we had. It had to heat the kitchen, dining room and living room downstairs and two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. There was a stove pipe that went up to the second floor. Needless to say, it wasn't very effective on days as cold as today. It was 80 degrees in the dining room, where the heater was located, and 60 degrees in the LR (next to the DR). Forget about upstairs. I wore long johns and a ski hat to bed.

One day I was sick and stayed home from work. I could see my breath until about 11:00 AM. I finally opened the window to warm up!

When I was pregnant with our first child, we put in electric baseboard heat. Heaven!

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OKPrincess — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 22:27:31 GMT

@On It

My aunt and uncle had one of these heaters on their farm in east Texas.

Wow such memories😊

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vermint — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 13:09:58 GMT

My grandmother lived in an old mill village house...years ago, these towns grew up around the textile mills. The mill owners may have built them, I'm not sure. Anyway, there was one of these heaters in every room! What a memory!

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JYWilliams — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:15:53 GMT

Growing up we had those stoves. My mom would put a can of water on them.

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cheriere — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 20:17:39 GMT

@On It My childhood home had that exact style heater lol. We had it in the family room. My mom always kept a kettle of water on top to release moisture in the air. As kids, we knew better than to fool with the heater or play rough around it. We knew not to touch it. I don't know about kids now though.