I still have ration books and ration coins from those years which I got from my parents. The coins have different colors but were mostly the size of our dimes and were made of some kind of hard cardboard. Jackinok is right that you still had to have the money to buy rationed things but the books and ration coins gave you "the right" to buy. Don't feel too good Jackinok because a lot of your diatribe is pure horse pucky. I lived thru that era, don't have to read about it.
I was 8 1/2 yrs old at the end of the war. I still can see in my mind a guy running to the fire station to turn on the fire siren in celebration of VJ day. I remember hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor (I was almost 5 yrs old then). I wondered why the Japanese would bomb a harbor full of pearls as that would ruin a lot of pearls.
My father drove a '37 flathead V8 Ford F5 truck hauling cream before, during and after the WWII years in east-central Iowa. He was allowed to buy a couple tires for it during the war because of the need for fresh milk and cream for everyone, including the war effort, was so important. If you didn't have a real valid reason to buy tires you just waited until whenever how many years they would be generably available again. Or you scrounged around for used tires. He hauled cream in 10 gallon cans for 26 yrs. I liked arriving at the creamery with all the steam and hissing going on. As they cut and packaged the butter in 1 lb blocks, the excess was tossed in a big open tub. Us kids would walk by that tub and pull out a finger full of butter and it tasted so good. No employee cared that we did that! So it must have been ok in those days.
Our car was a '36 Olds 6 cylinder with 3 on the floor and it had bullet headlights. For several years after the war you still had to have your name on the dealer's list to buy a new car (Don't remember what year "the list" was done with.) Dad had his name on the list of the local Chevy dealer and he eventually worked his way to the top of the list; when us kids saw a new Chevy at that dealer I always hoped dad would buy it because he had the first chance. He kept turning them down and it drove me nuts...I wanted to ride in a new car! He never did buy a Chevy but finally bought a used 1948 "98" Olds in 1950 with a straight 8 that looked like it was a city block long. (The next yr Olds came out with their Rocket 88.) Dad sure loved that Hydramatic transmission; the first in the industry.
I worked in a country elevator 1957 to 1960. A lot of protein still came in cloth bags but most were in paper by then. A farmer would bring his corn and oats to be ground up and protein added and then haul it all home. He would often have a small swatch of a cloth pattern in his pocket and he would go in the "feed room" and try to find a match of the pattern; wouldn't you know it, the pattern he wanted almost always was at the bottom of the stack and guess who had to work thru the piles to get the sacks he chose! But the man's wife got the pattern she needed to make shirts, underwear, etc.
A little girl in our grade school, about 1947 or so, wore under pants made from feed sacks because us boys knew how to check that out! To this day I know an old schoolmate who still identifies her by the old nickname we used "Feedsack Dirtypants"! Kids are cruel.
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