Oysters, cocktails, sea breezes and World War II history come together at the Rosie the Riveter World War II National Home Front museum and park.
A film playing in the museum claims the women were often better at these jobs than men, who tended to try to get things done quickly. You could tell the difference between welds made by men and women, for instance – female welding was “like creating an embroidery in metal.”
People lived in trucks and boats and slept in all-night cinemas or “hot beds” that rented out for 8 hours at a time. Some workers just swapped the same bed – when one went to work the other would claim the mattress, then switch for the next shift. If that sounds uncomfortable, there were also folks quartered in huts adjacent to a dump, a tidal swamp and a “particularly odorous hog farm.”A museum exhibit of ration stamps shows the extreme curtailing of products prioritized for the war.
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