Gas ration WW-2
 

Any of you remember these sticker's and stampbook's during WW-2 ?
I remember as a child going to the gas station with my dad to put gas in the family model A, I also remember him and his friends using a large piece of rubber about the size of the palm of your hand between the tire and the tube to keep the tube from pushing out of a hole in the tire [a boot] they called it.
Just a few other thing's =
1. setting around that very large radio..Amos and Andy, Green Hornet, the squeaking door.
2. eating a lot of spam.
3. using the top off a cereal box for shoe repair.
4. a lawn mower with no motor on it.

And i had fun.

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

My A has the same sticker in the same spot! Here is a pic. I also have a re-elect roosevelt campaign sticker next to it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...IMG_3875-1.jpg

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

I had a A with that sticker and another one beside it that said nixon now more than ever.

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

i remember all of that, putting a worn out tire with the bead cut off inside another tire, a really big boot, nucoa, imatation butter in a package, it was white, then they put in a small color button inside the package that you broke inside and then neaded it thru the contents to make it yellow to look like butter, selling bacon grease to the grocer for money, sold by the coffee can, big and small ones, coffee cans you had to open with the key attached to the top of the can, my mom would save them and strech them out at xmas time and hang on the xmas tree for ornaments, the ice man coming once a week to deliver ice, and the milk man twice a week, and i do remember those push lawn mowers, god i hated those things(still do), back then you really had to work hard to make ends meet, not like the spoiled kids today, in the movie Leap Year the pampered lady (Amy Adams) got sick when the chicken was killed for dinner, she was ask "dont you know where chickens come from" and her answer was,yes, from the frozen food section, lol i think that answer was hilarious, ok no more rambling

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

Louis,

You might find this site interesting:
http://modelaford.tripod.com/gasstickers.html

Charlie Stephens

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

I just read an article about ration coupons, Hemmings or mafca pub. Interesting, and how people would "cheat" to get a better coupon. Coupons were also traded like money if i remember correctly

ford1: That was margerine you used to mix the coloring into, at least that's how i remember it, early 50's I can remember my mother doing it and I'd get to turn the mixer on. Iceman, milkman, breadman, paperboy, vegetable wagon thru the neighborhood, corner store that delivered the groceries, Dr that would make house call 2 towns away, etc, etc. i miss thosse days. Sorry for ramblin.
Paul in CT

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

The milk man would leave your bottle,s of milk on the porch, they had about 1 in. of thick cream on the top. when the ice man came [in a large A model flat bed truck] all of us kid's would follow his truck and pick up all the pieces of ice he chiped off,
[we had it made]. it was 25 cent for one block, he had a large piece of leather or rubber on his shoulder to keep from getting wet.
Our phone was a two party line.
My Dad's A model always started,... it never fail'ed.
I've got to stop, Im telling my age :eek:.

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

Thanks Charlie! Great of you to share this, i now have mine :)

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

Does anyone else remember wearing "nickers", as a kid ?
How about $.05 Cokes or a six pack for $.25 ?
Going to a Saturday matinee, with a serial for $.10 ?
Hunting for thrown away bottles to collect the $.02 deposit ?
Or getting a firearm, usually a .22 cal., on your 12th birthday ?
If you remember these, you are as old as I am.
MIKE :)

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

Hey Mike. July 31, 1924 . It's been quite a ride. Tony

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

My old froend Andy Verrone was a motorcycle shag delivery rider during the war. As such he had pretty much unlimited supply of ration stamps. Late at nite he had trouble getting gas so he would pull up next to a dump truck and fill his 3 gallon tank. He would open the truck door and put cash and many ration stamps on the seat.

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

OK I posted a message. It appeared momenterly then dissapeared. Am I banned like Skip. Tony
All it said " OK Mike July 31, 1924. It's beenm quite a ride. Tony

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

When I was a boy we work knickers, yes coke was .05, candy bars were large and .05 except at the A&P where they were .04 or three for .10. Gasoline was .17 per gallon in 1941 and my 1930 Coupe had a gas ration B sticker so that I could drive to work...until I entered the service and stored it. All cars also had a Federal Tax Stamp decal on the windshield, good for one year. My tires were paper thin and I have driven home on the rim several times after blowouts. I've been driving the Coupe 70 years now and its a keeper.

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

More stories please! This is all very interesting!

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

You mention the blocks of Ice. We didn't have electricity or running water down in the mountains, and since we didn't have an Icebox, there was no need for Ice. So we kept food cool" in the storm cellar.

I still have my Ration Book and remember real well the Mock Bombing Raids where we hid under the table, scared to death. Air Marshals drove the streets to check for any light coming out of your house for which you could be cited.

Our Soldiers were greeted with open arms when they returned as Heros.....Many of them lied about their age just to be able to fight for our country. My Dad had to get permission from the authorities to get a set of four (4) tires for our Model A.

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

It is still there Tony.:o

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

you must have lived where i lived! We didn't even have electricity.
"the assistant guru of stuff"

I remember too!
 

I had to walk to school early to light the wood stove before the rest got there! It was a 5 mile walk up hill both ways :D
Sorry couldn't resist :)

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

It was the January/February issue of the MAFCA "Restorer".

I bought a reproduction set of ration stamps off of Ebay for my Dads 81st brithday (he still has all of the family originals). I just searched Ebay for WWII ration stamps and the repops are still there, along with a lot of originals.

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trk...All-Categories

Re: Gas ration WW-2
 

I think i remember that people were ask to paint the top half of there head light's black where enemy aircraft could not see them incase of an air-raid, anyone else remember that?
I also remember all of us kid's on the week-end would go out and collect anything metal and load it on a large truck that would come by for pick-up on week end's.
and saving our old empty tooth brush tube's which i think had some lead in them, and putting them in a collection box at the lcl. drug store, all for the war effort.
I guess when people get togeather a world war is over in about four years
;).