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It's also quite vintage to fry potatoes in lard, smoke because it's good for you, not wear enough protective gear in sports, and use Lysol for "feminine hygiene."Miss Neecerie said:I was reading a stack of Modern Priscilla magazines from the 20's and you can all now use Tums in full confidence that it makes you even more -vintage-. lol
Dismuke said:Here is a good benchmark - the old song "Living In The Sunlight, Loving In The Moonlight" which Maurice Chevalier introduced in 1930 and was recorded by a number of popular dance bands at the time. (You can watch Chevalier perform it here courtesy of a friend of mine who has uploaded it to YouTube) It is a very nice and snappy song and I understand it has enjoyed a revival of sorts in recent years in a television cartoon - though I haven't seen the revival to say whether it does the song any justice. Anyhow, part of the lyrics go:
"Haven't got a lot,
I don't need a lot
Coffee's only a dime"
Well, according to that Cost of Living calculator I linked to, that dime cup of coffee in 1930 would cost $1.23 today - and as the Depression deepened, the 1933 price went up to $1.58. Yes, you can buy a cup of coffee for $1.23 today - but there are plenty of places where you can get it for quite a bit less than that and one couldn't say one "only" paid $1.23 for it.
Back then, soda pop cost a nickel. In 1930, a nickel was about 62 cents in today's US currency. Sounds reasonable - except when one remembers that the standard sized soda pop back then for a name brand such as Coca Cola was 6 ounces. That would be equal to paying $1.24 today for a 12 ounce can of pop - which is quite high and usually seen only in vending machines located in places giving them a captive market. For many years Pepsi was a bargain brand and was especially popular with kids because for the same nickel, it came in a 12 ounce bottle. No doubt that people back in the Golden Era would be utterly scandalized if they could have known that it would be commonplace their grandchildren and great grandchildren to down 44 ounce (or larger) "Big Gulp" sizes soda pops.
fernande said:My father has a menu from The Brown Derby- totally cool, but made even more cool by the fact its autographed by Groucho Marx himself (who was dining in the booth- next to my father and his parents)
the_librarian said:RC Cola and a Moon Pie!!!
Nothing Better for lunch!!!
Man, I miss WC! I grew up in New Jersey, and no matter where you are there, you're never far from a White Castle. Now I want one. Or twelve.Dismuke said:Whenever I am visiting New York City, I always make it a point to get my fix of White Castle burgers.
KY Gentleman said:Dismuke- White Castle hamburgers were something I used to crave when I lived in Georgia, folks would say "Krystals are the same thing" but there aren't!
Every trip home to Kentucky included a stop at White Castle.