LOL! I thought the first one said, "Keep 'Em Frying!" ;)
Both sets of grandparents had Victory gardens. My mom's father had grown up on a farm and so did my dad's mother. Their gardens turned out very well. My paternal grandfather learned a lot growing that garden. :)
My maternal grandmother was Italian and having a garden for tomatoes and peppers and other good stuff was just routine even before the war. :)
Ah, the scrap drives. They chewed up many a comic book so that drove the price up on the rare ones years later. Action Comics with Superman's first appearance just recently sold for a bazillion dollars. Trying to outdo Batman's first appearance in Detective Comics! ;)
My dad told me about some of the movie theaters in El Monte California holding special days when a kid could get in for free by bringing old bike tires.
My Dad admitted that he and some of his friends 'liberated' a few neighborhood tires so they could all get into the flicks...
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bradygirl_12
Both sets of grandparents had Victory gardens. My mom's father had grown up on a farm and so did my dad's mother. Their gardens turned out very well. My paternal grandfather learned a lot growing that garden. :)
My maternal grandmother was Italian and having a garden for tomatoes and peppers and other good stuff was just routine even before the war. :)
Ah, the scrap drives. They chewed up many a comic book so that drove the price up on the rare ones years later. Action Comics with Superman's first appearance just recently sold for a bazillion dollars. Trying to outdo Batman's first appearance in Detective Comics! ;)
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franklanguage
Incidentally, my dad always refused to carpool.
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temperance14
My Dad admitted that he and some of his friends 'liberated' a few neighborhood tires so they could all get into the flicks...
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