Showing posts with label depression prices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression prices. Show all posts

Saturday, February 20, 2016

1935 window menu, Blossom Restaurant, Manhattan

Hamburger steak and onions – 15 cents.

Beef steak and onions – 20 cents.

2 eggs with potatoes and coffee – 10 cents.

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Perspective: For a job during the Depression, my father shoveled gravel for eight hours and was paid 50 cents.