Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Jan. 9, 1943

She gets her hair done; Brits allowed one fresh egg a month

Thelma went to a beauty parlor on this Saturday for a wash-and-set, which cost her 50 cents. She paid 14 cents to ride the streetcar. Perhaps she paid in part with zinc-coated steel “war pennies” like these, minted in 1943 only so the more precious copper could go toward the war effort. She got home at 2 p.m., fixing a late “dinner” — what we would call…