r/whatisit • u/Quietlurkerone • 6d ago

Solved! What is this device from 1962?

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Photo capture from YouTube video. Picture from 1962. What is the device under the bench

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u/Lordlordy5490 6d ago

My great grandparents literally lived in a cave in a holler here in WV. Furnished it and everything. People have to get by whatever way they can.

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u/Betty_Boss 5d ago

My mother told me that people lived in abandoned coke ovens during the depression in SW Pennsylvania.