Old time Jamaica

[sistactry]

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<span style="font-weight: bold">mi likkle sista use to siddung pan an wait fi mi drag har all ova. </span>

dat me a talk bout, the novelty wear off,

but something like u and ur sister a have fun a shine de floor, cant wear off,

[Nunya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SistaCtry</div><div class="ubbcode-body">woooiiieeee, coopan de missa mention, wid him hand a him chin,

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Memba when dat was de poas???

[makabush]

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Maroon Soldiers used to put down the Morant Bay Rebellion

[Gen]

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i copied this from a 1922 document

[Nunya]

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[Nunya]

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oops

[Rivers]

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Sistactry my grandmother
still have some of those
patterns and she uses them
they are turning to dust
because they are so old
she says they are gold

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nunya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Look yah, memba when Sat'day mawning everyting move outta de living room (an wha couldn move out move up pon de couch...

Den mi used to haffi get down an polish (cyaa memba de name a de polish ) an den shine ie wi cuknat brush. Den wi did have de special [censored] we mi likkle sista use to siddung pan an wait fi mi drag har all ova.

When de hoover come awn to de scene, everybady did waa use it at first... but de novelty wore off quick quick. When it did stop work an mama say wi haffi stawt use de cuknat brush, wi did kina glad, especially mi likkle sista... </div></div>The polish use to name Cardinal floor polish snd the floor polisher was Electrolux. I think tgere is still tge remnants of one at my parents old home. Now occupied by relatives.

[Nunya]

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Ah so? I'm inclined to think it was Genie floor polish... Which one was cheaper? And came in a margarine like tub?

[sistactry]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rivers</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sistactry my grandmother
still have some of those
patterns and she uses them
they are turning to dust
because they are so old
she says they are gold
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they must

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: makabush</div><div class="ubbcode-body">



Maroon Soldiers used to put down the Morant Bay Rebellion </div></div>these are not jamaican maroons but misquita Indians imported from Honduras and regular black policeman. The morant bay rebellion was put down by British soldiers brought by sea from Kingston. They dhot all black bkack people they came across, in tbe process.

[sistactry]

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maka, dem head fayva makabush dont it,

[sistactry]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nunya</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> </div></div>

boy oh boy, no matter how old these pics are, coopan my boy a pose off pan de ground, a same so dem still a pose off,

[sistactry]

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Gen, u like old ja documents ehhh, so what can u share

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nunya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ah so? I'm inclined to think it was Genie floor polish... Which one was cheaper? And came in a margarine like tub? </div></div>Cardinal was before genie and was in a larger tin tub than genie.Genie was in a smaller tub i think plastic tub.