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This November 1944 view of the Volunteers of America Thrift Shop at 400 Twelfth Street affords a window into wartime Sacramento. Rationing was now part of the national consciousness and with American G.I.s and British Tommies making their way closer and closer to the Rhine River, the need for America to tighten its proverbial belt grew ever more imperative. While war raged, the shop – operated by one sales clerk – was transforming the donation of clothes, shoes, books, and furniture, into revenue to help Sacramento’s down trodden. The Volunteers maintained one other thrift shop at this time, at 116 Sixth Street.
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