Where is everyone

ITYM "Ration Stamps"? And yes, I remember (faintly I was 5
at the end of WWII) rationing. Mom made her first attempt
at home canning peaches with her allotment of scarce sugar
and was scalded when the hot bottles exploded after the oven
door was opened. There was some new-fangled home canning
method which by-passed the boiling-in-a-huge-pressure-cooker
in favor of cooking at high temp in the oven. BAD!!!

Dad lost almost all of the chain of 37 gasoline stations he
had worked so hard to put together when gas rationing cut
his product and man power was depleted by the draft.

Beverly

Posted by Juno on April 13, 2008, 3:11 pm

> ITYM "Ration Stamps"? And yes, I remember (faintly I was 5

> at the end of WWII) rationing.

Yes, Rationing Stamps! Dad was able to get more gas than many people
because he was in essential industry and had to get back and forth. He
worked in Ship Yards, building war ships. The town we lived in had 1
school bus for the entire town. That was because of the rationing of
gas. So if you lived off the route you walked. We walked.We also had
stamps for things like shoes. Just what every mom needs with 3 children
growing out of everything faster than she could possibly replace them.
Coffee was also at a premium and of course we all saved paper, tin cans
and even the foil from cigarette packs for the war effort. When the war
was winding down my parents bought their first home, the catch was we
couldn't move in because the tenants had a son in the service and
couldn't be asked to leave.We were finally able to move in in early 1945
because my middle brother was ill and needed medical care that he was
unable to get without drives of 3 hours or more from the small country
town we lived in.
Juno

Posted by Pogonip on April 13, 2008, 5:15 pm

Juno wrote:

>> ITYM "Ration Stamps"? And yes, I remember (faintly I was 5 at the end

>> of WWII) rationing.

> Yes, Rationing Stamps! Dad was able to get more gas than many people

> because he was in essential industry and had to get back and forth. He

> worked in Ship Yards, building war ships. The town we lived in had 1

> school bus for the entire town. That was because of the rationing of

> gas. So if you lived off the route you walked. We walked.We also had

> stamps for things like shoes. Just what every mom needs with 3 children

> growing out of everything faster than she could possibly replace them.

> Coffee was also at a premium and of course we all saved paper, tin cans

> and even the foil from cigarette packs for the war effort. When the war

> was winding down my parents bought their first home, the catch was we

> couldn't move in because the tenants had a son in the service and

> couldn't be asked to leave.We were finally able to move in in early 1945

> because my middle brother was ill and needed medical care that he was

> unable to get without drives of 3 hours or more from the small country

> town we lived in.

> Juno

Cardboard in the bottoms of the shoes -- to cover the holes in the
soles. Then one store got in some brown oxfords, just after the war
ended, I guess. My father bought me the size that fit, then bought one
of every larger size -- by the time I outgrew/wore out those shoes, I
vowed never to wear brown oxfords again. Like GWTW, "As god is my
witness, I will never wear brown oxfords again!!!"
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/

Posted by BEI Design on April 13, 2008, 6:01 pm

Pogonip wrote:

> Juno wrote:

<snip>

> Cardboard in the bottoms of the shoes -- to cover the

> holes in the soles. Then one store got in some brown

> oxfords, just after the war ended, I guess. My father

> bought me the size that fit, then bought one of every

> larger size -- by the time I outgrew/wore out those

> shoes, I vowed never to wear brown oxfords again. Like

> GWTW, "As god is my witness, I will never wear brown

> oxfords again!!!"

Oh, you lucky dog!!! I have a class picture of me in about
second grade, wearing "clogs": wooden soles with white
leather upper. I don't recall any of the other girls
(besides my sister and me) having to wear them. I hated and
despised those things. I think I might have preferred brown
oxfords. ;-}

Beverly

Posted by Mary Fisher on April 14, 2008, 10:20 am

> Pogonip wrote:

>> Juno wrote:

> <snip>

>> Cardboard in the bottoms of the shoes -- to cover the

>> holes in the soles. Then one store got in some brown

>> oxfords, just after the war ended, I guess. My father

>> bought me the size that fit, then bought one of every

>> larger size -- by the time I outgrew/wore out those

>> shoes, I vowed never to wear brown oxfords again. Like

>> GWTW, "As god is my witness, I will never wear brown

>> oxfords again!!!"

> Oh, you lucky dog!!! I have a class picture of me in about second grade,

> wearing "clogs": wooden soles with white leather upper. I don't recall

> any of the other girls (besides my sister and me) having to wear them. I

> hated and despised those things. I think I might have preferred brown

> oxfords. ;-}

As a child I had one pair of new shoes every year, in odd years they were
sandals and the toes were cut out when they grew too small. Most of the time
I wore clogs but they were solid wooden clogs and very uncomfortable.

The reference to cardboard in soles struck a chord - the soles of shoes
during the war were often compressed cardboard which is why we wore clogs in
wet weather.

When I went to high school the uniform insisted on brown leather outdoor
shoes, I didn't mind them at all. They were smart, not cut-down sandals, not
clogs and not cardboard soled 'leather' ill-fitting shoes.

Mary

> Beverly

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