1946

The Grant family in 1918
(left to right) My Dad Stuart, Charles with Bernard on his lap, Isabelle, Bertrice with Olive and Dads twin sister Margaret

1946 was the start of the "baby boom" as returned troops married their sweethearts, and started work, or went back to school.  It was also the year colleges and universities got their largest enrollments.
Home entertainment was still a deck or cards, a board game or the radio; television was just a few short years away for almost everyone.
1946 was also the start of automobile production which had been halted by the war effort, people were happy to get those new cars.  You know, back then you could tell a Ford from a Pontiac, each brand had some distinction, I liked that.
1946 was also the year I started first grade, at age five - Mom didn't try to hold me back (she was singing Oh, Happy Days) there was no Kindergarten in Lebanon at that time.  The school had one room downstairs, and one room upstairs.  Grades one through four, downstairs, taught by Mrs. Mildred Pierce, and upstairs Mrs. Elsie Bumford taught grades five through eight.  There was no running water, boys went to Mr. Hanscom's well and got pails of water each day, it was stored in a stone crock with a spigot.  We all shared a tin cup on a chain! (oh, the horrors).  I got a bloody nose the first day of school because I hid and yelled BOO! at Joyce DeHaven and she punched me in the nose.  I was off on a good start; things never calmed down again:)

Home entertainment



Baby Boom starts.



New cars back on the market.