Random Obs

H-E-B grocery prices in 1945....80 years of inflation! H-E-B bread 7 cents/loaf, todays prices range from $3.oo to $4.50/loaf.

 

A sign of the times.... speed limits board near Waco Texas in 1939
Photo credit: Russell Lee

 

Entrepeneur in 1939 East Texas, a plow, a spring tooth, and a drill.

 

Food for thought....

 

I'm not sure I believe Michigan is one of the cheaper ones.

Wonder where they got their numbers from. Maybe it's of the houses currently available for sale?

 

All those cheap abandoned houses in the suburbs of Detroit must be bringing the average price down.

 

A cup of coffee or tea made over an open fire tastes exponentially better than one made indoors on an electric stove or coffee maker.

Probably because the work that went into it without the modern convenience makes it that much better.

 

When I go cabin camping in NH, I've taken on making morning coffee for decades.

Boil water on propane Coleman stove.
Remove coffee pot from stove. Add measured coffee, stir.
Place on a metal trivet on hot wood stove, no boiling.
Stir coffee pot every 5 minutes.
After 15 minut of steeping, enjoy a cup of cabin coffee.

I do use a simple coffee press to filter out grounds.

I believe it's the setting/venue that contributes to making it taste good.

 

This ad was in the Borger Texas News Herald in the fall of 1961, times and prices have changed a little since then.

 

I can remember .33 gas.

 

.24 was the least I paid for gasoline.

I remember those prices as well.

Every now and then, I'll remember how low the prices for food were. And then I think "that must be wrong, it couldn't have been that low"!!!

 

I can't remember the last time I saw the cents symbol in an ad. My phone doesn't even have one on the keyboard....although it does have a Euro and British Pound symbols???

 

I hadn't been in a supermarket for a couple years or so. My wife was under the weather in 2023 and we needed groceries so I went. I was in shock at the prices! Two and change for a generic can of soup.

 

It's probably there...might be in one of the "hidden" lists...even my el cheapo android phone has it ¢¢¢

 

Nope, not there. Galaxy S24. Did sluething on the web and seeing the same...Samsung keyboard removed it, but you can find it on the Gboard keyboard.

Older Galaxy phones have it hidden here, if you press and hold the $ button. You can see below that it is not there now.

 

That's weird, it's set for "English/US" and has some foreign symbols, but not all US symbols.

 

Yep, weird. But hey, at least I can text someone how many Yen something cost me....

 

Not sure if you intended the price to read what is does but you're saying that you paid 8 cents a gallon for gas?

During mid WWII the prices may have been that low but I don't think you were capable of buying it while you were a newborn.



Heck, even in the 50's it was in the teens and 20 cents a gallon range.