Reply To: Lead paint?

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Lead paint was not the best white paint in that it reacted with

sulfur dioxide in air from coal fired stoves and furnaces and turned yellowish. Premium pain had Titanium Dioxide pigment that stayed a pristine white…under the soot and

dirt from burning coal. I remember the good old days down side as my job was to pull the clinkers from furnace and fill

stoker from pile of coal in corner of basement. We were

fortunate, Some had to make do without central heating and

Winters were longer and colder back then.

That house when my grandfather owned it had a small coal

stove to head a portion of upstairs where he lived, a single

water outlet partial dirt basement and an outhouse back

by the alley. My folks had a full basement, bath, kitchen

and central heat installed. The coal furnace gave way to

oil and eventually gas when it became available. I got

elected to paint the outside of the house when I was 12

The experience left me all in favor of child labor laws.

Louis