'Cause There Ain't No Place

[Diaphone Jim]

There are some odd things in those charts.
Army: 26 million boots
Navy: 25 million shoes
Army: 177 million shorts (cotton underpants)
Navy: 93 thousand shorts (nainsook, also sort of cotton, underpants)

Odors are said to be the most evocative memories. Just Bruce's mention of surplus brought an immediate sense of the ubiquitous stores and their strange combination of smells.
There were oils, mothballs, wool, waxes, and other sharp ones of mysterious origins.
I am afraid, young-uns, that this takes a certain age.