In rural Idaho, I know electicity was not available until after WWII. Would matches have been widely available and affordable in the mid-thirties?
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| olsonwrites | 1936 pre-electricity isolated farm: matches or flint?? |
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In rural Idaho, I know electicity was not available until after WWII. Would matches have been widely available and affordable in the mid-thirties? |
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Nov 3, 2009 - 18 07
Yes, they would have been. Matches were around and widely used even as far back as the Civil War, but they were more commonly called Lucifers. Hope that helped!
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My mother lived on a farm with no electricity in 1936: she used matches.
They were one of those essential things you got when you went into town (like salt, baking powder, needles, baling wire. etc.), which couldn't be made on the farm or done without. If matches (or money, or the means to get to town) were running low, or you were just being thrifty, you would try to save on them by lighting things from one another (a lamp, say, lit from the fire in the stove via a thin scrap of kindling). In winter, the stove would be kept going all day and often all night, providing a handy source of fire for whatever needed lighting.
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