GOING MODERN!!

On another writing, I mentioned that in 1940 we got an electric refrigerator. Today, I want to tell you about getting a gas stove.

This was a welcome relief for my mother that totally cooked on a wood burning old cook stove (the kind with warming ovens above) until they had the money to buy the gas stove. She still cooked on the other stove in the winter, but in the summer she didn't have to fire up the stove to cook with.

This new stove had four burners and an oven that you regulated the heat. No longer would we have a summer sauna in the kitchen. Well, I guess you wouldn't go so far that it didn't get hot in the kitchen in the summer, but at least there wasn't a stove roaring all summer long, to a help the thermometer go up sky high.

We purchased an electric iron, an electric washing machine and electric sweeper and an electric radio.

Jobs were low pay during the 1940's.

The depression era was slowly but surely coming to an end. I do believe that we survived and came out of the "great depression" much easier and faster than most in those days. We didn't have a modern kitchen with running water, but we were on the way UP.

There was a greater and worse problem looming in the making, however. Pearl Harbor and World War II was on the horizon. This took our generation through a crisis and determination to pull together to WIN the war! I will write about this era next.

Wisdom today--Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.