26 January 1942

Small Grocery Stores like this one were very common in the 1940's. Most of us walked to school and I passed two such grocery stores on the way and we often stopped to get penny candy. Also notice the ads for chewing tobacco which would be a rare sight today. My Dad smoked all of his life........died from it. We lived in a Steel Town "Youngstown, Ohio" and most of the folks who lived there worked in the steel mills.