I Remember The 1940s Stories of Experiences

I read this to Hubby and asked him, "Nobody's going to believe this, right?" And he answered in his matter-of-fact way, "Probably not. We did a lot of things back then that nobody would believe now."

But I'm tellin."

The little...

Being born in 1950, I can't say I remember the 1940s, but I love the movies, books, and particularly the radio programs: FIBBER McGEE & MOLLY, THE SHADOW, JACK BENNY, FRED ALLEN, etc., etc. And just listening to those radio shows is a...

Periodically, a mouse would gnaw a new hole into (or out of?) our house, usually at a spot where the wall meets the floor. In that case, a baking powder can lid would be sharply bent and nailed over it.
Picking blackberries from the...

The loaves of bread were lined up on the floor against the wall, according to the memory of an old lady, a family friend.  When my grandmother, almost nine months pregnant, was asked why she was baking so much bread, she said she...

To start, my earliest memories were of things like the dump rake, as in the avatar, being pulled by horses. I do believe during the 40s the horses were replaced with an International Harvester H model tractor with the two small close...