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it is about the War and the Times back then.

everything was Rationed that you used and the Government put in place what was called OPA Ceiling Prices, in other words if a Store charged more than the OPA Ceiling Price they could find theirselves in a heap of Trouble, and they also gave everybody a Ration Book and it had coupons and they had Printed on them what you could get with it and how much,of course you had to pay for it , but they done that to keep Prices down, I suppose those People then were just as Greedy as they are Today, but if the Government told you something back then well you would do good if you paid attention to what they said,

anyhow most People would abide by what the Government would say, The average Person could buy 5 Gallons of Gas a Week , 1 Battery a Year, and 1 set of Tires a Year, that worked out pretty good for the average Man, because them mules didn't burn Gas and the Cars got 20 miles to a Gallon and we didn't have nowhere to go hardly, and if you was fortunate enough to have a Job at Reynolds there was some People named Stanley that had a Bus there at old Bethel and they would make three trips a day to Reynolds, to carry People to work and bring them Home after each Shift ended, we Called it the Work Bus and you paid to ride it, but I have forgot how much.

Then there was always the Black Market, you could always get stuff you needed but it would cost you more, it wasn't just the things that I named, it was everything that was rationed, one day Three of us Kids were walking down the Sidewalk in Leighton and there was a store that had Shortening, and this Man said he would give us a Quarter each to go in and get him 3 Cans, so we did, he gave us the Money to pay for it with and the Quarter for buying it for him. Back then a Quarter looked as big as a Wagon Wheel to me.
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After that the Brothers that ran the Bus built a Resturant right behind the Hospital in Sheffield called "The Woody mack", boy it was a popular Place, I think that it is still there, but I don't know what they call it now.