WE ARE IN THE BEGINNINGS OF A REAL DEPRESSION FOLKS AND WE NEED TO START OUR VEGETABLE GARDENS GOING THATS HOW WE SURVIVED THE LAST ONE THAT AND STEALING A BOTTLE OF MILK OFF THE RICH NEIGHBORS DOORSTEP HAHAH.
IN MY YOUTH MILK WAS DELIEVERED TO THE DOOR BY MILK MEN AND THEY ALSO BROUGHT EGGS AND BUTTER AND DAIRY PRODUCTS .
WE WERE VERY VERY POOR AND OUR WELFARE CHECK DIDNT CARRY US MONTH TO MONTH IT WAS LIEK $30 DOLLARS A MONTH AND ON TOP OF THAT, ONCE THE WAR STARTED , WE HAD TO HAVE STAMPS AND TOKENS FOR BUYING FOOD.
THERE WERE NO JOBS AND TEICHERT'S DIME STORE WAS WHERE WE GOT WHATEVER FEW THINGS WE BOUGHT FOR GIFTS AND SUCH.
AND THERE WAS A SMALL GROCERY STORE CALLED BEECROFT'S WHERE WE HAD A TAB GOING WHICH WE PAID WHEN THE CHECK CAME. HAMBURGER WAS 10 CENTS A LB. SO WAS EVERYTHING ELSE BREAD 10 CTS A LOAF AND POTATOES 10 CTS A LB.
GAS WAS 10 CTS A GAL AND CIGARETTES WHICH ALL SMOKED WERE 10 CTS A PACK.
WE ATE TORTILLAS HOME MADE ONES FLOUR WAS CHEAP AND BEANS WERE CJHEAP AND CHILI WAS AVAILABLE WE HAD BEANS AND TORTILLAS AND CHILE A LOT.
ON SUNDAY WE HAD A ROUND STAEK WHICH WE BAKED IN THE OVEN TO MAKE CARNE ASADA.
AND SOMETIMES WE USED THE STAEK TO MAKE ENCHILADAS WITH BLUE CORN TORTILLAS WHICH HAVE THE MOST FLAVOR.
A MAN IN A HORSE DRAWN WAGON CAME AROUND IN SUMMER AND WE GOT FRESH VEGGIES AND FRUIT FROM HIM AT A CHEAP PRICE OUR FAVORITE WAS SQUASH FRIED WITH ONIONS AND CHILI PODS AND A SPRINKLE OF CHEESE. AND FRESH PEACHES WERE SOO GOOD BIG BIG ONES SWEET AND RIPE YOU NEVER GOT FLAVOR LESS GREEN ONES LIKE THE SELL AT STORES TODAY THE FRUIT THESE DAYS IS PICKED SO GREEN IT HAS NO TASTE.
MY MOTHER READ CARDS TO MAKE MONEY AS WELL AND SHE SOLD LOVE POTIONS IN TEENY BOTTLES. I WENT TO TEICHERT'S TO GET EVENING IN PARIS COLOGNE AND PERFUME FOR MY MOM TO MAKE INTO A LOVE POTION. AND BLUE WALTZ COLOGNE WAS CHEAP TOO YOU COULD BUY A SMALL BOTTLE FOR 10 CENTS OR A BIG ONE FOR ABOUT 25 CENTS. SHE READ CARDS FOR 1.00 AND THE LOVE POTION COST 3.00 IT WAS VERY POPULAR I REMEMBER LADIES COMING AND SAYING " I NEED MORE LOVE POTION IT REALLY WORKS!!"
WELL IN THOSE DAYS YOU MADE A LIVING ANY WAY YOU COULD. MY MOM HAD 4 KIDS TO FEED SHE WASNT PROUD.
AND THE DAY WE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO EAT EXCEPT SOEM OATMEAL AND SUGAR MY MOM SENT MY BROTHER TO STEAL A BOTTLE OF MILK OFF THE NEIGHBORS DOORSTEP THEY WERE ALSO RELATIVES WHO HAD FARED MUCH BETTER THAN WE . SINCE THEY HAD A BUSINESS THAT FED THEM AND KEPT THEM WELL.
ANYWAYS THAT WAS PART OF DEPRESSION DAYS IN THE 30S IN MY MEMORY.
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My mother loved "Evening in Paris" cologne and its signature blue bottle with silver lid. My father wore "Old Spice" as did all the other men at that time...or so it seemed. My hubby was fifteen and delivering milk, coming out of the times of the depression. Someone begged him to deliver milk to their 5 children at their home but didn't tell him they had scarlet fever. He almost died from it. (Later on, I told our children that their father was the Milk Man. Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.) Shortly after Pearl Harbor, at age 17, he got permission from his parents to enter the Navy and so he served on a mine sweeper in the Mediterranean. His father died two years later from a heart attack (45 years old). His mother worked for Lever Bros, selling their soap and kept her 3 other children plus a close friend's children alive on oat meal. My mother's family had a chicken farm at the time when the political slogan was "a chicken in every pot." Her older sister thought they were ducks and placed several in the rain barrel, telling them to "think or thwim"...she was only 3 years old...and managed to drown several of them before her Mom (my grandmother) caught her. ---angel
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