Map of Elk City in the 1930 – 1940
Prices from the 1930-1940
Peanut Butter .$.10 per lb.
Vinegar: came in a wooden barrel, and you took your own container to have it filled.
Ginger Snap Cookies: came in a wooden barrel, and you bought them by the pound
Candy Bars – 3 BIG ones for $.10 (we hardly ever got any and when we did, it was our supper. “GOSH! it’s a wonder I’m still alive!” We would get “SMOOTH SAILS” or “3 Musketeers” which had 3 bars in one candy bar: 1 was pink, 1 was white and 1 was chocolate. (“They were DE-LISH-OUS!”)
Pop $.05/bottle
people came to town and set up a stand out on the street and took pictures 3 for $.10
It was nothing unusual to have Tramps come to your door wanting something to eat
Also, there were Gypsies in their covered wagons, and I was scared to death of them.
People made their own kraut, dried their apples, made hominy out of their corn, and those that had sorghum mills made sorghum molasses. People took their wheat to the mill and had it ground for flour, they made tomato and watermelon preserves, milked cows by hand for their own milk, made cottage cheese and longhorn cheese, churned their own butter, raised their own popcorn, and they also made their own lye soap. which I hated!. They also made their own feather beds and pillows by saving feathers from chickens, geese, etc. I loved to sleep on feather beds, they were so soft!
Medicines
Skunk grease for colds
Onion Poultice for chest congestion
Pipe Smoke for Earache (would blow smoke in ear)
Turpentine, 1 drop +Sugar+1 tsp for worms
Copper Bracelet or carry a Buckeye in your pocket for Rheumatism
Asafoetida (Devil’s Dung) for colds (Had to wear it around your neck. Boy did it stink!)
1996 I’ve learned that
My Grandkids really truly LOVE their Grandma and their Grandma sure does LOVE them!
I’ve learned that my kids are SUPER DUPER and my Grandkids are SUPER DUPER DELUX!
I’ve learned that Prayer changes things!
I’ve learned that I’m content with what I have and thankful
I’ve learned that You never miss the water, till the well runs dry and then the most needed thing is an “Out House”
I’ve learned that Good friends are precious jewels but bad friends are rotten eggs
I’ve learned that if someone gives you something to eat, and you don’t like it, put it in your pocket and give it to your Mother, that’s what I did!
George
I learned that Zerro is pretty darn COLD!
I’ve learned that You can’t catch a fish without bait on your hook
I’ve learned that Spinach tastes rotten and ice cream tastes GOOD!
I’ve learned that it takes 3 bullets to kill a opossum, when I used to take 1 bullet Wonder why? Because now I am 86 years old!HA!HA!