What did a food stamp look like? How did the rationing work?
I don’t remember too well about that. They were little stamps, though, and you had a ration book. But since I was young, I didn’t go to the store much it was my mother or my aunt. They were little stamps I do remember that. Did you collect rubber and other materials like some kids? We did collect aluminum. There was a big drive to collect it. We took pots and pans and took them to a place where the collections were taken and given to folks who, I guess, carted them off to factories. But we did collect aluminum. Were there things that you wanted but couldn’t get during the war because of rationing? I suppose mostly the fact that gasoline was rationed we couldn’t take trips to visit relatives the way we used to. And there were no silk stockings. Older folks would paint their legs with makeup and draw a line down the back to make it look like a seam. Because silk stockings were no longer available. I guess nylons weren’t made yet. But we weren’t able to get stockings that I remember. Why
