taking ration books and little red tokens to the grocery store for groceries.

 

1943 gray pennies all over the place...

 

Doing the pledge of allegiance in school  with your left arm extended?  And being in school when they said you couldn't extend your arm anymore because it resembled a heil hitler?..

 

Standing in long line in front of the  candy store to get a 1 cent stick of bubble gum when it came in, and have it all sold by the time you got to the store's counter, but you were lucky and had a dime to get a stick from one of the scalpers outside.  It was really worth it when it was Fleer's Double Bubble Gum.

 

Picking up coal along the railroad tracks to help heat your house.

 

Growing your Victory Garden....

 

Sliding down the street hills that were set aside for sledding during certain times during the winter months.

 

Not being able to drive up the hills unless you had chains on your tires.

 

Seeing the Railroad tramps eating their lunches in the bushes by the tracks .. burning little fires, and cooking out of tin cans...

 

Playing marbles on the way to school, and back .. as soon as the snow started to melt in patches of lawns where you could shoot.

 

Picking strawberries on the lake road farms for five cents a quart..

 

Walking through the Freedom Train when it came through Oswego...

 

The 1948 Oswego Centennial Celebrations..

 

"John Foster Dulles's Stop in Oswego...

 

Picking wild strawberries by the quart.. (not as easy as it sounds)

 

Building and shooting rubber bands made from Tire Tubes from a simple homemade device called a Rubber Gun...and those rubbers with a knot tied in them could hurt..

 

Kick the can, or Kick the wicket...

 

Shooting out street lights with a b.b. gun...

 

Air Raid Wardens

 

spotlights scanning the skies for warplanes...

 

Volunteer Aircraft Spotters watching the skies from their little white towers..

 

Blackouts

 

Funeral Wreaths on front doors of homes with recent deaths in family.

 

Boy scouts coming to the house collecting newspapers for paper drives..

 

3 cent stamps and penny postcards

 

Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy