He was so thankful he was on the mountain side of the road- he had to drag the bed of his truck along the mountain to slow him down and enable him to stop. Danny was so good to us girls - when babysitting jobs were slow he would give us money for the show and popcorn and candy. The admission to the show was .10 cents and .05 cents for popcorn. That seems cheap for a movie but when you got only .50 cents babysitting till midnight that would be .25 cents each for Willa and I. One summer Willa and I baby sat twin girls and their brother all day - 7 AM to 5 PM - fixing them breakfast, lunch and cleaning up the kitchen for .50 cents a day. We'd each have $1.25 at the end of each week - which was a lot for these were depression days when bread was .08 cents a loaf, stamps were .02 cents, gasoline was .12 cents a gallon and one of the big grocery stores would give you a penny when you checked out so you could go across the street to the other market and get your milk with the penny - they said they couldn't afford to handle the milk.

My brother graduated from high school in June 1932 and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president in November 1932, his first term in office.

By Christmas 1932 our parents were really feeling the effects of the depression. I remember mother made Willa and I each aprons out of flour sacks and embroidered them - in these days you bought your flour in 100 lb. bags made of material like unbleached muslin and when you washed them, the company printing came off and you had a real nice piece of material 40 or so inches square and we each got a sweater blouse that retailed at that time for .59¢.
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