We used to have a penny candy store across the street from school. Girls weren't allowed to wear any type of pants in the public schools just skirts/dresses. In the winter in grade school we would wear our snow suits which we would take off and hang up in the coat closetvwhich stretched across the back of the classroom but still no pants allowed for girls.

In Jr High we had to sometimes kneel in the hallway for a skirt lenth check. Couldn't be above your knees.

Sorry. I don't remember the gas shortages. I was an adult by then and stationed in a different country in the military.

During grade school and maybe later the air raid signal went off every day at noon for testing.