Oral History Interview with Billy Allen, March 1, 1976 Page: 50
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Allen:might have issued a little soap, but I wouldn't say
they did. I don't remember.
What did you use so far as toothbrushes and toothpaste
and shaving material?
Well, of course, we had little kits of that which they
let us keep until our toothpaste was gone. We still
kept our brushes. I can remember lathering up with a
bar of soap and brushing with soap--just plain bath
soap. I guess that's what everybody did.
How about razor blades and things of that nature? How
did you adapt along those lines?
Well, of course, after we . . . oh, well, we sharpened
them. We resharpened them. We made the same blade
last for months and months.
How did you resharpen them?
In a glass.
In other words, you would take the concave part of a
glass bottle or something and hone it.
Yes, inside it. I had forgotten all of this until you
brought this up. You had me thinking there for a moment.
Yes, we'd just resharpen them over and over and over,
and you can keep one sharp. As a matter of fact, when
I got home I felt how wasteful I had been. I used to
sharpen my razor blades and use them over and over that
way. It does a nice job of them. But I use an electric
razor now (.chuckle).
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Allen, Billy. Oral History Interview with Billy Allen, March 1, 1976, book, March 1, 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529118/m1/52/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.