Dimitri wrote:
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> "brooklyn1" > wrote in message
> ...
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>>> "John Kuthe" wrote:
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>>> ...I'd really be even more upset that I had to pay $2.99 a pound for
>>> them!
>>>
>>> What ever happened to 99 cents a pound for cherries?
>>
>> What ever happened to 99¢ watermelons?
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> Too ripe to go to market - a Stake truck parked in Bayville Long Island
> NY .50 cents per melon. only 50 years ago.
>
> Dimitri


Remember 99 cents for a dozen ears of fresh-picked corn at the roadside
stand? And they'd usually make it a baker's dozen? (That's 13 ears for
those of you born too late for the concept.)

gloria p