TIN CAN TELEPHONES

One of the most fun activities my sister, brother and upstairs cousins had was playing with tin can telephones.  Did you ever play with tin can telephones?  Do you even know what they are?  Assuming that you don't, please accompany Marash Girl into the past as she reminisces.

Years ago, when Marash Girl and her sister and brother and cousins ages were in the single digits, they loved playing with tin can telephones.  How was that?

They would salvage an two empty tin cans from the trash can, cans with one end already removed, peel the paper label off, and punch a small hole in the bottom of each can.  Then they would salvage string from the cellar shelves and string that string through the bottom of one tin can into the bottom of the second tin can, making the string long enough to reach from the dining room on the first floor through the dining room window into the dining room on the second floor through that dining room window.

By pulling on the string connected to the cans, they could

call each other, as the cans would bang onto the floor, thus signaling each other whenever they wanted to communicate   Alternating talking into the hollow of those cans on one end and listening into the hollow on the other end, the cousins had their very own private telephone. In the days when not all families could afford to have telephones (and at that time, there was only one telephone in the two family house), the cousins could chat with each other whenever they wanted, without running up and down the front stairs.

What fun memories!