My parents ran a gas and grocery store during the war. Dad also worked in a lumber mill filling war contracts for wood products. Mom was a book keeper for local business owners too. I have their book keeping from the war that for some reason was not sent in.
In order to keep prices from going through the roof due to shortages, the O.P.A (Office of Price Administration ) was established to issue ration stamps and tokens. Each household was issued a set number each month and that was all you could buy, period.
You would have stamps for many different types of purchases and would turn them in, along with you cash for goods. I have many pages of this kind of stuff, but I will post just a few to give you a little idea of what they looked like
This is part of a page of stamps for processed foods.
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This is a partial page of gasoline stamps.
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This is gasoline purchase permit with the owners name and make of car on it.
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These are a couple of O.P.A. Points known as Red and Blue Cents. If you have ever heard the phrase "Not worth a red cent" it came from the time after the war when all these things were worthless and no longer needed. Maybe we need to bring these back to keep the big oil companies from gouging the heck out of us.
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In order to keep prices from going through the roof due to shortages, the O.P.A (Office of Price Administration ) was established to issue ration stamps and tokens. Each household was issued a set number each month and that was all you could buy, period.
You would have stamps for many different types of purchases and would turn them in, along with you cash for goods. I have many pages of this kind of stuff, but I will post just a few to give you a little idea of what they looked like
This is part of a page of stamps for processed foods.
[attachment 17018 rationstampsprocessedfood.jpg]
This is a partial page of gasoline stamps.
[attachment 17019 rationstampsgas.jpg]
This is gasoline purchase permit with the owners name and make of car on it.
[attachment 17017 gaspurchasepermitww2.jpg]
These are a couple of O.P.A. Points known as Red and Blue Cents. If you have ever heard the phrase "Not worth a red cent" it came from the time after the war when all these things were worthless and no longer needed. Maybe we need to bring these back to keep the big oil companies from gouging the heck out of us.
[attachment 17016 rednbluecents.jpg]
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and ciggs. to name a few small items