Depression Quotes from Wisconsin

My mother got me this wonderful cookbook called "Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930's" by Rita Van Amber.
The neat thing is that it's still for sale and is published right in Neenah WI.
I use it for the easy-to-make recipes with ingredients that I usually have on hand at home. I want to share some of the quotes from the book as an encouragement. Mostly because I watched the news this morning and it was anything BUT encouraging.

"Your children and grandchildren, I'm sure today, can't believe half of it. Many times I think it would make better homemakers, better marriages and less divorces if things wouldn't come so easy. Nothing was thrown away, like now, and we ate what was fixed. We never said "yuk" about food or we would have been disciplined. Gardening was the main source of one's living. The whole family worked at it, too. I'm glad I was brought up in those times, as you really learn to take care of things and appreciate them. A product of the Depression. Alma Smith Woodville, WI

"The Depression was a good education." Virginia Fyksen, Eau Claire WI

"We all wore the same dresses at school. They were made out of feed bags and only one neighbor had a pattern. So we all used the same pattern with the same rickrack around the neck, sleeves, and hems." Gwen Manske Menominee WI

"The gas tank was getting low and we couldn't make it up the steep hill in the model T so we turned in around right there and backed it up all the way. Gravity-feed gas tanks were under the front seat.

We coasted down every hill so the gas would take us there and back. It was 19 cents a gallon.

Soda pop was 5 cents a bottle and it was real genuine grape. We never got any." George

The address and phone to purchase this book is:
Van Amber Publishers 862 E. Cecil Street Neenah WI 54956 Ph. (920) 722-8357