About gDonna
The photo is my son and myself. Now days you can get a photo made to look old like this one. This photo was taken when this was the new look.

Harry S Truman was president when I was born and world war II had ended. I grew up in a time when lunch was put in a brown paper bag and a sandwich was wrapped with wax paper. There was no such thing as pantyhose, we wore stockings that attached to the rubbery clippy things that attached to the girdle. Convenience stores were not common and when we took a trip we packed a picnic basket because many places did not have fast food. Highways had places to pull over and stop, some with picnic tables. Read more ....

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WWII RATION STAMPS Explained Part Two

June 29, 2015

We continue to learn about the home front during WWII

We are moving along on the points.

Now we will discuss Meats, butter, oils, lard etc.

Each person Received 64 RED STAMP points for 4 weeks. Here is a very good article that was posted in the newspaper when the meat rationing took affect.

Again I am sorry about the many pieces of this article follow along by alphabet, To get this posted I had to enlarge it then cut it into pieces and scan each piece to make it large enough to read.