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#3 1940s Polio Outbreak#1 1939 Kansas Wheat
#30 Country Store On Dirt Road, North Carolina In 1939
#32 This Is The Rms Queen Elizabeth Pulling Into New York
With Returning Us Servicemen In 1945. Finally Ww2 Is Over
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left-of-center2012
Feb 2022
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i knew about calico feedsacks. i also remember a childhood dress my grandma made me that i loathed.
pansypoo53219
Feb 2022
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whistler162
(11,155 posts)1. My mom remembers her grandmother
making her and a neighbor's daughter dresses from feed sacks back in the 1940's / early 1950's.
underpants
(182,624 posts)2. Great pic
zuul
(14,624 posts)3. Cool!
pansypoo53219
(20,955 posts)4. i knew about calico feedsacks. i also remember a childhood dress my grandma made me that i loathed.
a feed sack would have been nicer. i think i was 5.
rurallib
(62,382 posts)5. I remember hearing about the radio teaching