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Roger, I'm still laughing about the flapping soles on your shoes. I remember the boys walking around exagerating the flapping soles by lifting one foot higher than the other when walking. I remember it as if it was yesterday.
We always had plenty of food and some to share. Of course,
our family was smaller than yours. My sister and I were the only children. We ate a lot of beef stew and soup in those days and sandwiches, which I still like. We also had a vegetable garden...summer only. We rarely had fish...it was so expensive, like it is today. We went to local restaurant 3 or 4 times during all those years, until it was closed for selling horsemeat! Now I wonder if our beef stew and soup was made with horsemeat; nevertheless, it was good.
My girlfriend came from a family of 4 children; they had it tough. Family used to go to grandparents home on Sundays for a good, home-cooked meal. She, her mother and siblings would take the streetcar to gramma's, but her father walked both ways to save the fare. Her mother wore galashes because she had to save money for kids' shoes. We all wore shoes that were too big for us so we could wear them longer
before we outgrew them. I vaguely remember my father buying leather and cutting them into soles and gluing to his shoes. I don't remember how that worked out, especially when it rained or snowed.
Whenever I came home from school or playing outside, mother made me change into old clothes and shoes to keep what I had looking decent for school and church. I still maintain that practice today, that's why my clothes last so long now. I have clothes older than some of the people I deal with!!!!
On rainy days, my friends and I used to take the "L" (elevated train) to downtown Chicago through the southside then to the northside and then back until we were home again. Took about 3 hours but gave us something to do and lots to see. We scoured the neighborhood looking for glass soda pop bottles to return to stores for the 2 cents deposit on each bottle. We used the money to go to movies and popcorn, if we were lucky.
When I was in high school in the early 50s, our home economics teacher was very familiar with the Depression and taught us how to make a variety of dishes using mush, none of it appetizing.
It's fun to look back on those days because we were all in the same boat, but I don't ever want to revisit those bad times.
Marilyn
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