People Explain What These 93 Strange And Weird Things In Old Homes Are (New Pics)

Omg an ancient Roman bath house, the first ever discovered in America. You should turn your house into a museum and charge 10$ per person

Supposedly these features were the toilets. They just dropped right out to the moat.

Drying racks if large dowels for blankets sheets and so forth smaller for towels etc.

Yes…that rack used to hold porcelain insulators, and incoming electrical wires were once tied to them for electrical service. Common on buildings in the 1920s-1950s.

It’s a furnace control damper. Chain would’ve been attached to open or close the damper

It’s probably the original staircase to the attic. A lot of people put the bathroom in there because the space wasn’t being used when plumbing first came out.

Coal furnace it opens and shut the damper

Damper from when the house had a coal furnace

Yes, there are old window weights

It’s a dinner bell. Turn the crank, ring the bells, the farm crew come running for their dinner.

As the wife of a Mason this chimney is fully functional. It has flues on both sides of the window, that allow the smoke to rise. The window works at it should opening and closing.

The Exhaust fan - for smell of fried chicken, bacon, sofrito, rice and beans to billow out into the neighborhood…

Yeah. This house, built in early 1950s, has hard wood tongue & groove flooring. The lamp that lightens the stairway is missing but was on/off by a two-way switch at this bottom dite & the head of the stairs above. A Great way to save an the electric bill!

Electrical insulators for an old electric service

Navy. Brass bc well everything is brass
S. R. Is state room (where officers live
It tells where the different toilets drain. It is a souvenir from someone’s past. Not Sears roebuck but i like the thought
I’m a submarine guy so I don’t know where mds mdp and all that. Lines up to
mid something portside
Mid something starboard side
Mid something P & S. (Left and right side. ).

Reminds me of the hole that likely still remains in the floorboards of my Aunt's home in Denver. One day, back in ye olde late 1900s my Uncle, having just lectured me on gun safety, agreed to show me his firearms. After removing one firearm from the nightstand he tried to clear the round that was in the chamber when the gun went off. Went through the bed, into the floor, and is likely somewhere still in the dirt of the crawlspace.
My father, ever the comedian and somewhat of a jerk, patted my uncle on the shoulder and asked when he planned on mounting his mattress trophy over the fireplace.

Fire grenade, it's safe as long as its sealed. Some people collect them. Just be careful with it, keep it somewhere safe, it will still put out a fire as well. It contains carbon tetrachloride.

I think it may be a closed well. If you look at the bricks there are several layers and it looks to be in shape of a circle. An outhouse most likely wouldn't have that many bricks. But it could be a cistern where they gathered water (rain water) for animals, irrigation of some sorts, but they are usually kind of like a barrel or enclosed.

It says Ariel right on it. Old antenna plug for a tv or radio back in the day