Sophia Howard, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, May 2, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 452

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I D OP: ah. . I don t think w did that mu h b c u it a ld. probably went to bed arly b cause w wer glad. t 1 a t have-had bl d BEC: And that s when a double bed was nice because you had another body in th r t you warm. SOP: Oh, yeah. And we used to have a lot of fun together. t BEC: Then I wanted to ask you about the curfew too. Do you remember when that came into place? Because that wasn't right at first, was it? SOP: Oh, no, no it wasn't. It was on the end. It happened when a lot of things happened to the Germans. Like I said, people did a lot of things: blow up trains and anything you can do to get even with the Germans they would do. That's when it kind of started. They told you that you had to be in a certain time. Everything was blackout. I remember, at the start when it was black, you always heard all those squeeze-light things and that was the little light you had. You had a little, like a flashlight, and you squeezed them (they contained a small squeeze-motivated generator to make the electricity) and that's the way you kind of found your way. Before it was curfew time, like in the winter, it's early dark and you still could be out when you couldn't see a dam thing. So you all had a little, well, it's kind of like a flashlight. You squeezed it and that kind of gives you light a little bit. JEA: There was a sound to it? SOP: Well, you heard always those. Everybody was walking around and you heard that kind of squeezing. JEA: I wonder what that is. SOP: I remember that. 28