Seeing blue stars in windows replaced with gold stars during WW II and Korea.

Inner tubes with so many patches you could barely see the original rubber tube.

Seeing the panic in my mother's eyes when she lost our ration books while walking home from the grocery store.

Baby Ruth, Butterfinger, and Hershey bars for 5¢.

Saturday afternoon Buck Rogers serials at the local picture show, 10¢ admission, 5¢ for a paper sack of fresh popcorn, a double feature with The Durango Kid in one feature and Bob Steele in the other.

.30-40 Krags for $5.00 at the hardware store.

Long, long ago.

L.W.







"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)