Re: OT Hard Times

Posted by Sam#3 on December 12, 2006 at 15:06:59 from (12.219.216.142):

In Reply to: OT Hard Times posted by Steve From Arkansas on December 12, 2006 at 07:14:54:

I missed the depression years but I was a pre-war baby. I got to live in some of the aftermath of the former and thru the latter. My grandparents and family of eight went to Colorado in the thirties. They traveled in an old fright wagon and brought it back. They were still using it as a hay wagon well into the fifties.
I can remember the ration books during the war.
The biggest complaint of shortages I remember was gasoline and tires. Everybody learned how to patch a tire with friction tape. I don't remember eating but one possum. No one liked it but we had lots of rabbit and squirrel.
The experiences made a lot of people wary and frugal. Lot of people I knew still didn't trust banks for years. Of course, It didn't make a lot of difference no one had any money.

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