I remember when a local call in a phone booth was 5¢ US and Canadian, and one Schilling in The UK. And a cup of coffee was 5¢ US and Canadian, and a dinner in a sit-down family dinner restaurant [[not the fancy ones) was $1 US/Can, and gasoline[[Petrol) was 17¢ a gallon[[during gas wars), and hamburgers [[greaseburgers[[in those first awful chains) were as low as 9¢ in the wars.
Comic books were 10¢ from 1938-1962. What a bargain! Daily newspapers were 10¢, and the Sunday was 20¢ and then 25¢.
But we have to remember that mothers didn't work back then [[except during The War), and that a father's good weekly salary was $50-$60 US/Can.
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