Jere Warner recalls collecting scrap metal and selling it for spending money.

Well, there really wasn't a lot of money to be made. Most of us younger children, I guess twelve, fourteen, fifteen years old, we'd go out and pick up scrap iron or if we were lucky enough to pick up copper where they were working on the telephone wires, but scrap iron would bring about thirty-five cents a hundred pounds. Then we would take the thirty-five cents and it would go a long way. We would go to the movies for eleven cents and popcorn was a nickel and cold drinks was a nickel and that was twenty-one cents. We'd go by A.L. Smith Drugstore on the square and read two or three comic books and sometimes feel badly that we didn't by one, so we'd finally buy one for ten cents and that would be thirty-one cents and we'd go home with four cents!