[snippy_about_it]

Obvious you cannot de-vulcanise. Bunch of Doofusses.

I have a thread I'm working on about the gas/rubber rationing. Lots of posters about the black market during those times.

My father used to tell us of growing up in a 'holler' during the depression in WVA and harvesting dandelions to add to the ruffage. Said they got a huge bag of sugar and flour once a month, had their own goats for milk and of course their own chickens. When war time rationing of food came around he was in the service but for those back home I expect it wasn't too much of a hardship for those who had lived through the depression. It just may have been worse for city folk. :-)

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Snippy. All these personal accounts are really interesting to me since I had no family here in the 40's who went through all this.

[Iris7]

West Virginia, eh? My Dad's family came from north of Paris, Pennsylvania, located at PA's south western corner with West Virginia both to the west and south within a very few miles. Still heavy duty boondocks.

A group of brothers of his name settled in the area after moving west for elbow room. These lads had left Ireland very hurriedly and secretly after the Rising of 1799, they say. Didn't use their real name in public for more than a generation. Paranoid bunch!