Laramie’s Living History —
A Variety of Other Topics
A series of stories prepared for the Albany County Museum Coalition, an alliance of institutions that promote Laramie’s historic and cultural resources. This series originally appeared in the Laramie Boomerang.
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Celebrating homecomings and moving on in the aftermath of WWII, 1945-1950
The first few years after WWII were no ordinary time for Laramie and Wyoming. Weddings proliferated and so did a baby boom, though both had begun earlier as the pre-war buildup ended the Great Depression. Cynics said that men who became fathers during the war were hoping to avoid the draft—a ploy that did not work for most. As the war dragged on, married men with children were drafted or called up too.