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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 05:21 PM Feb 2022

Lesser-Known Historical Facts

#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
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Lesser-Known Historical Facts (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 OP
My mom remembers her grandmother whistler162 Feb 2022 #1
Great pic underpants Feb 2022 #2
Cool! zuul Feb 2022 #3
i knew about calico feedsacks. i also remember a childhood dress my grandma made me that i loathed. pansypoo53219 Feb 2022 #4
I remember hearing about the radio teaching rurallib Feb 2022 #5
 

whistler162

(11,155 posts)
1. My mom remembers her grandmother
Wed Feb 9, 2022, 05:27 PM
Feb 2022

making her and a neighbor's daughter dresses from feed sacks back in the 1940's / early 1950's.

pansypoo53219

(20,955 posts)
4. i knew about calico feedsacks. i also remember a childhood dress my grandma made me that i loathed.
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 09:35 AM
Feb 2022

a feed sack would have been nicer. i think i was 5.

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