My family moved from NJ to Albuquerque, NM in 1945 when I was three so I do not remember anything about NJ. Thankfully my parents took a few snapshots of my brother and me there. I remember not having a car for the first few years. We took the bus. We had gas rationing for a while as well as food (I think meat) rationing. I also remember sticking stamps in a book for savings bonds. 11/11 was still Armistice Day. Polio was a HUGE problem until the vaccines came out. No penicillin, kids got boils, ringworm and such. We all had chicken pox, red measles and mumps. My mother did not believe in vitamin pills and only a few were available anyway. She cooked almost everything from scratch as that was all we could afford. Looking back that was a good thing! My parents never had more than one car that they bought used and we definitely had less money than 80% of my childhood friends' families.
I did feel SAFE as a child and rode my bike everywhere I wanted to go after I finally got a bike.
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