Thelma and Lowell's Diary: March 12, 1943

Eats and rides in NOLA; meat rationing is tightened; Cary Grant visits

Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons, by Reynold Brown. -

All the diary holds for today is a notation of 14 cents for rides and a quarter for eats. Perhaps Thelma was too shocked by the news that more food rationing was to begin to write anything more.

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