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Message: [QUOTE="BroadwayVa, post: 2339058, member: 6118"] In 1948-9 we'd drive to Bristol from Plymouth (Plymouth) and get gas at 15 cents --a loaf of bread for 10 cent (fresh), 3 pounds of ground beef for under 75 cents, movies in Terryville 10 cents or in Naugatuck Salem Theater or across the River Alcazar for 10 cents. My first car was a Pontiac (not fit for a junk yard) 50 dollars earned working the Granby/Simsbury Tobacco fields for 25 cent per hour to start then zoomed to 35 cents (next year) picking and dragging along side of the Ct River. We worked along side of College kids from Georgia, one a very important man in the Civil Rights movement. My next car, also earned with tobacco money, was a 36 ford coupe for 150 to me the greatest car ever The richest kid in Plymouth --his father owed the only grocery store in town, although the General store post office on the corner of North St and Main st sold hardware and beans and breads and most importantly--B'B's . I'd ride my sisters horse to town to meet the guys, On occasion I'd hook up another horse to a buck board and drive it down Railroad st from Plymouth to the feed store and load up with feed for chickens, cows, horses. Driving a horse drawn hay rake, with a momentum dump mechanism (that was a wonderment to me), lift hay up 8 feet with a pitch fork to load the hay on another flatbed horse pulled wagon. Not much gas around--this happened in WW2 era --oil lamps, electricity didn't get to this part of Plymouth yet--the Doctor up the hill got electricity installed later on for my sister and her family. She worked days at Seth Thomas clock--evening mornings milking bottling and delivery milk--plus all the essential cleaning. 3 of my High School class mates attended a one room school (first to eighth) which was on South st, near Harwinton Ave Terryville (Plymouth) [/QUOTE]

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