WH854 45 #1 Posted January 10, 2011 Is there anyone that can remember buying 2 cent postage stamps for first class mail? How about a penny post card you could send it without extra postage I Can Chas :thumbs: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vinylguy 4,691 #2 Posted January 10, 2011 I can!! Still got a few. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marvairplanes 34 #3 Posted January 10, 2011 Thinking...thinking...thinking... That would be about the same time as "ration stamps" to buy gasoline, butter and sugar... and "BLACK OUTS " !!!! and CCC camps used for holding German POW's... and let's see... collecting milk weed pods to use the silk for parachutes... and Hudson automobiles... and Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger, "The Squeeky Door"... don't get me started ! Marv NW Oh Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WH854 45 #4 Posted January 10, 2011 YOU HIT IT Marv Seem like just yesterday Chas Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyovrcntry 115 #5 Posted January 10, 2011 I remember getting the Lone Ranger stuff,you had to order it from a cereal co.I waited forever for that, I think I got a tin star , a mask and a silver bullet.Of course the bullet was hollow aluminum,but I watched for the mail everyday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bmuone 15 #6 Posted January 11, 2011 The first club I joined was The Three Stooges Fan Club. I remember waiting but can't remember what I got back in the mail. Oh, I liked Curley. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
B-8074 20 #7 Posted January 11, 2011 I don't remember the stamps, but I do remember walking to the store for milk in a returnable glass bottle. I also remember being able to go home for lunch when I was in elementary school. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WH854 45 #8 Posted January 11, 2011 Yeah I remember for the war effert, all us kids were asked to bring tin cans and metal to schooi, there was a big pile of junk on our play ground, trucks used to pick it up and haul it away. Alunminum was a big thing in those days, gum wrapers were made out of aluminum, no more tin foil we called it. All the butter was used for the war effort,( service men). We used to get margarine white had to add color a yellow powder came with a pound of margarine. Chas PS I grew up in East Texas Cherokee County I remember all those army convoys going buy our house headed for Louisiana :banghead: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
marvairplanes 34 #9 Posted January 11, 2011 We lived a few miles outside of Defiance, Oh. There was a huge CCC camp built years earlier, and it was then "remodeled"...Cyclone fence surrounding it, razor wire on top, guard towers...a regular "prison camp" for POW's from Germany. I can remember when the old party telephone would ring...sometimes in the middle of the night, and the sheriff warned everybody that there was an ESCAPE. Dad and all the neighbors grabbed their shot guns and formed a posse. (LMAO !!!) Sometimes they would be gone 24 hours or longer...and I don't think they ever "caught" anyone. Funny thing. After the war ended they opened the gates and most of the guys stayed here in Defiance. They brought their wives and families and we still have the latgest German (Lutheran) concentration in Ohio...maybe the country??? Marv Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WH854 45 #10 Posted January 11, 2011 :thumbs: To all you guys for the memories From an old fat man Chas Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
