In a message dated 97-01-10 09:26:17 EST, you write: << Considering inflation/cost of living increases, etc. (a loaf of bread cost 15 cents then?) What does this tell us about today's prices?? >> It is impossible to equate fees and prices today with "the good 'ol days". Prices in some areas have remained exactly the same and others have grown way out of proportion. A few months ago I listened to a replay of an old "Fibber McGee and Molly" from the fourty's where Fibber was complaining about prices in the grocery store. A whole ham, he said, was $27, a can of beans was $.75 and a dozen eggs was $.50....I was really surprised to hear that food prices really have'nt changed that much (probably due to technology), but I about fell off my chair when I heard next that Molly said that she still needed $7 left over for the house payment! Jerry Wood
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