My Most Sentimental Thing in My Apartment is the old Hoosier Cabinet bought the fall of 1924 when we first moved here from Kansas and into what was known as the Selby House, eight miles east on Valmont Road.
The Kitchen of that house had a Home Comfort Range that heated water for the Bedroom and the Kitchen sink, a cupboard in the south east corner of the room, and absolutely no Counter or work Space except the Kitchen table where we ate our Meals.
When the Hoosier Cabinet was delivered, my Father-in-law took one look at the White Porcelain sliding top and said "Oh! What a fine place to roll out Biscuits." The flour bin with sifter, the hanging Spice rack, the sugar bin with half-cup scoop. Two drawers below the top, one for silverware, one for butcher Knives and some small tools. A shallow drawer for tea towels or place mats and napkins. Two Covered tin drawers, one deep for loaves of bread and a shallow one for Cookies and doughnuts or cinnamon rolls.
My brother-in-law, Paul Teets, lived a short distance west of us and their children and ours played back and forth. Little Delbert knew Aunt Nellie always had cookies, so one day he was with his father in the truck. Paul stopped at our house and as he left the truck he told Delbert to stay right there. No sooner had his dad disappeared around the house then Delbert slipped out of the truck and into our house and to the cookie drawer. For once it was empty. I was on the back porch snapping green beans and I heard him say in disappointed surprise, "She doesn't have a single cookie." And he hurried back to the truck.
The cabinet went to Kansas in a truck the 11th of November 1932, then from the farm to the little house in Douglass. Back to Boulder in 1940. It has graced the kitchen of every house I have lived in - 32 years at 1905 Mapleton and now four years in my apartment at Golden West. I couldn't keep house without it.
Nellie Teets