"Wayne Boatwright" wrote:

> Joking aside, at 61 I remember things as you do, like going to the corner
> store as a child to pick up a loaf of bread for 29 cents, a jar of mustard
> for 12 cents, etc.
>
> Wayne Boatwright @¿@¬

In my early married days, we could (carefully) do a week's grocery shopping
for $10 or thereabouts. I remember that T-bone steak prices rose to $1 per
pound and housewives everywhere in our area boycotted the meat departments!
(and gas was 29 cents a gallon, too). But --- I was making $30 a week at
my job, DH's salary wasn't much better and we paid $55 a month for quite a
nice apartment. Times change and everything's relative.

Dora