That is cool!!
I just recently found a rations book that has my Great Grandfathers name in it. I haven't sat down to look up what they were for and why. I do kind of remember something about food rationing. But not sure for which war(?) or the details...I have colored blue and red little cardboard tokens too.
I like finding stuff like that, and I seem to be the only one in the family that even cares, so I try to collect it and bring it from my grandmothers. I have a pic. I'll try to post back to this thread......I don't know how well it will show up. My Grandmother still has the original, I was able to get a computer print copy. I'll try to find it and post here. I think it's cool history!! It's cooler to me because my Great Grandfather was on guard.
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"1927 Cinci. Ohio, on Display after First solo non stop flight across the Atlantic "his name" as guard" Is what they wrote on the back. I have never fact checked this. I just assumed it was written on the original too... You can also see where someone penned in part of the name of the plane. I think that was done ...Maybe when they did color enhancing too? The green just looks out of place to me. But this is a copy of the original. The story goes......He wasn't supposed to let anyone near it. A reporter told him if he let him take pictures he would make sure he got one of them. So...He let them close for pictures. I remember him telling the story...But no idea if it's all fact or Grandpa just telling stories..
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I love finding stuff like what you found! I can't even imagine that time period good and bad. Those guys saw the first cars!!! A lot of them originally came from horse drawn farms! Then to see the first cars,planes, etc...Stuff we just look at as normal today. That must have been an exciting and scary time! I was fortunate enough to know my Great Grand Father. I had no idea at the time what I was missing by not recording or writing down his experiences that he talked about. He was on a TV show at one time, it was Ohio channels PBS (?) 45 and 49. Talking about things from that time. NO one in the family can remember a date or what the actual topic was, war? The early 1900's? I would love to find a copy of it, just to have it.
Anyhow...Very cool stuff! Even cooler when we find personal items from family members of that time. Sry for the ramble...I like this kind of stuff....Just holding the items makes you think...........
