Quote Originally Posted by gazhekwe View Post
When I was a baby, we had coal heat in our house in Brightmoor. It was a brand new house. I remember when it was converted to something in about 1950, I THINK natural gas, because we didn't seem to have an oil truck coming around. I don't remember the coal truck, but I am pretty sure it was a truck, not horse drawn. It had a chute that went into the house and very noisily and scarily dumped coal into the basement coal bin.
When our coal heating furnace was removed my grandfather replaced it with oil heat around the middle 50's. The coal truck was a truck, not horse drawn, and it was Koenig Coal. Awww, the memories of playing in the coal bin and my mother yelling at me to try to stay clean.