I can attest to the Willis testimony of paying everything with cash. There was a time when

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18. They didn't have much choice.

There weren't credit cards available--just revolving accounts at some stores.

In the '60s my mom had little metal plates in her purse for Hochschilds and Hutzler's, two department stores near where we lived. Visa? Mastercard? Nope. Otherwise, cash and carry. (Or checks, if you had a checking account. I was part of the checkbook generation--no credit card until I was 26 or 27, but carried little cash, carried checkbook.)

So, you're saying Wade and Willis were born in the 1920s or before?