Movies

Mom would let us go to the Saturday afternoon matinees for 10 cents each. Some times Mom would come too.

War Bonds were always sold during the movie intermissions.

Sometimes, the nights Mom would go, they had drawing for a $50 War Bond or a set of dishes or some other exciting thing to help the war effort.

Movies were shown to help people be patriotic and want to help do their part to win the war. news Reels shown let us see how our brave men were doing on the fighting front.

We were shown the atrocities the Germans and Japanese were doing to the innocent people of Europe and Pacific Islands. The news showed babies being thrown into the air and caught on the wicked German's bayonet blades. Of course we wanted to help the war effort!

I had nightmares of being bombed by the enemy.