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Description
Ms. Brown speaks about the fun while serving in the air force; the canteen facilities for the men and women of the mess and how little money they had to spend for the fun that they made.
Transcription
We had a lot of fun. Of course, I think people who grew up in small towns like I did, it was easier than people say from Toronto, Winnipeg, that they had more activities around but we made our own fun. We had a canteen on the station, however, the men had the wet canteen. We were the other side, it was one building so one side it was the men so we couldn’t go in their side. And of course they had no beer, no alcoholic drinks in our side. You just couldn’t do any. We could, if you didn’t like the mess meals, you’d go up to the canteen and ask for a great big fat juicy ten cent sundae, a slice of toast and a cup of coffee. Because on our big salary of .90 cents a day when we started, I think it was $1.75 a day, $1.80 when I finished, a day you couldn’t buy a whole lot. And yet, in those days it was good, you were well off. Your clothes were supplied, your food was supplied, so you had that money.