1939 tire sale and food specials

[BobShirleyAtlantaTx]

[TXGOAT2]

No sales tax, either. I remember Free America. It was a wonderful place. (Even with the cod liver oil)

[Rich P. Bingham]

Adjusted for inflation, that $13.50 tire now costs $288.00
A dollar was worth more, but somewhat harder to get ahold of.

[TXGOAT2]

You could earn interest on dollars. Living within your means paid off.

[Norman Kling]

I remember when you could get gum for a penny and ice cream cone for a nickle or two scoops for 7 cents.
Norm

[Steve Jelf]

The prices aren't so cheap when you remember what people were paid. Still, I won't buy a Snickers today because I refuse to pay $1.50 for something I used to buy for a nickel. What surprises me here is that in 1939 a big town like Fort worth still had two-digit phone numbers. I bet the paper was one of the first businesses to acquire phone service, and that later ones had longer numbers.

[TXGOAT2]

I think you're correct about the phone numbers. Until recently, there was a florist's sign around here that read: Jones Floral, Phone 4. Another old sign for a funeral parlor also had a single digit phone number. When I was a kid, we'd give the operator (Number Please) the street address and she'd make the connection. A little later, they got fancy and put in dial phones. After the change, you'd dial the first two letters of the (only) exhange, then a four digit number. No more operator, although you could dial "0" for operator if you didn't know the number or wanted to make a long distance call. I don't remember how the pay phones worked because I couldn't reach them.

[Burger in Spokane]

C'mon, guys .... it is fashionable now to live in debt and swim
in the sea of plastic consumer goods. Get with it !

[TXGOAT2]

I depise debt, and avoid it like the plague it is.