[SML] OT: Non-Standard Wiring Revisited

[Phil Haney]

"In early Disneyworld a ride sponsored by GE called "The House of the
Future" ?  had a diorama of early household electricity.  One always struck
me funny.  The wife was ironing, the kids were playing with some electrical
toy, the husband was listening to the game on radio, the refrig was on, the
meal was cooking on the electric stove, the fan was running, lights were
on, etc.  ALL from a single light socket in the ceiling with myriad twofers
and miles of tangled extension cords."

This is (was) the House of the Future."

http://www.yesterland.com/futurehouse.html

You may be thinking of "The Carousel of Progress" (scroll down to the
picture for act 2).

http://www.yesterland.com/progress.html




-Phil

"Quini, quidi, quici" - I came, I saw, I played a little quidditch.



On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Chip Wood via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> In early Disneyworld a ride sponsored by GE called "The House of the
> Future" ?  had a diorama of early household electricity.  One always struck
> me funny.  The wife was ironing, the kids were playing with some electrical
> toy, the husband was listening to the game on radio, the refrig was on, the
> meal was cooking on the electric stove, the fan was running, lights were
> on, etc.  ALL from a single light socket in the ceiling with myriad twofers
> and miles of tangled extension cords.
>
> Chip 1
>
> On 10/9/2015 11:15 AM, e-mail frank.wood95 via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> It was the custom, back when, to run all sorts of things from lighting
> outlets. I remember my aunt doing her ironing from a light socket.
>
> It always strikes me as hazardous, since there was no earth connection,
> poor cable clamps (if any), and a limited current supply. But she survived
> it. Back in the 1940s and '50s, we were less beset by rules, or maybe just
> more ignorant.
>
>
>
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