Canteen Book
Snacks and other items could be purchased at the camp canteen using coupons from books, like those pictured. John Buskowiak (1922-2008) used these coupon books while serving in the CCC in Plainview and Lake City.
MNHS 3D Collections 1993.146.3,4
Transcript
Interviewer: I found these canteen books in your collection here.
John: And they’re made up of ten 10 cent coupons each and we could just go in and tear off a coupon and buy a pack of cigarettes or—cigarettes were 10 cents then you know. I’d buy one book at a time. One book at a time that’d give me ten, see, and 10 cents was ice cream or 10 cents for shoelaces or something like that I wanted to buy at the canteen. That’s what I’d do.
Interviewer: So they didn’t take the money, they wanted the coupons?
John: They’d take the coupons, right.