Living and Surviving
Blackouts and Rationing During the War
“And that was the bad part, at night when there was no lights, ‘cause everything was dark.”
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“Sometimes it was just — in the middle of the day they shut everything down. And then at night a lot of the times it would be no lights at all. And that was the bad part, at night when there was no lights, ‘cause everything was dark.”
“When I went to work, you got a ration book of your own. But when I was living at home, they just had the family ration book. When you’re on your own you get the ration book.”
“The time you put in eight hours into one of those machines you were ready to go home. Get a bath and go to bed.”
