I was born in 1945, but one of my early memories is of my grandmother making aprons and dish towels out of material from feed sacks, four sacks and sugar sacks. She had made me a little apron for my 4th birthday. I wanted to wear it all the time, which caused some problems for me! I have a million stories from the 30's it seems. My mother and grandmother were both storytellers. I had Mama write down as much as she could remember, and I still go back and read from time to time. She and my dad married in Oklahoma in 1935. Right after the wedding my dad's boss told him that the mill had closed down. (steelmill) Mama said they had $40 to their names and made it stretch like rubber for months. Daddy took mama to live with his folks and he rode the rails and worked when he found something and sent money back home. He found a great permament job at a steelmill in California in 1937 and everybody moved out there to the bay area. Mama said the kids called us "Okies" and it made my brother mad. I don't remember it though. We moved to Texas in 1951 and I do remember the kids there calling us "Yankees".