Life at Denver

Sister sweet 3 posted a photo of Richard and me in front of the house at Denver in what we called sun suits. These were a gift from me from my Aunt Winnie. She always brought me cloths when she came home to visit. Richard demanded that I share with him and mama said I had to share. I did not want to share my pretty sun suits with my brother.
People bought feed in cloth sacks in that day and mother would buy feed sacks from Rose Maddox, she and her husband lived on a farm just out side Denver AR. And milked a herd of cattle hence she had a over supply of feed sack. Mother also bought milk from Rose. I can remember walking to the farm with mama to get milk.
All our sheets , tea towels and my bloomers were made out of these sacks.
Mother made my under pants, she cut old inter tubes into strips for the elastics to keep the bloomers on my skinny frame. There was not much stretch in the rubber and it was a pretty good trick to get the strip of rubber the right length. My bloomers were always so sung that either they cut into my skin or so loose they were always trying to go south while I ran and played.
Every thing was rationed during the war, you had stamps the government issued each family and certain things were very hard to buy because there were a lot of shortages. To buy a rationed item you must find some where that had the item and have a government stamp and the money to purchase that rationed item.
The things I remember that we could not get were sugar, coffee, elastics , gas and tires for a car.
Denver was a thriving place in that day. They had 3 stores. Mr. Beck store also was the post office. Grandpa said Mr. Beck got his job because he was a democrats. Grand pa Gaddy belonged to Mr. Bush's political party, and he resented Mr. Beck and his job.
grandpa Gaddy sold gas, fixed flats, sold groceries and soda pop.
The other store was owned by John Dee Seals, this store was off limits to us. It was a bad place according to grandma and mama. John Dee did a lot of black market buying and selling. There were people who would get the rationed items and sell them. This probably involved robbery some where a long the line.
The best entertainment that Denver AR. Had for years was when John Dee bought the truck load of black market sugar. A man drove a truck into Denver in the middle of the night and told John Dee he had a hot load of sugar and must sell it fast because the law was on his trail. John Dee opened a sack and sure enough it was sugar. With visions of wealth John bought the load and quick as a wink the sugar was in john's store and the truck was gone.
The next day John Dee discovered the sacks were filled with white sand with a thin coating of sugar on top. John Dee was the butt of many a joke for years involving sugar and white sand.