"Gloria P" > wrote in message
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> 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
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>
> 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

Yes Damn it! There was a Tapia brothers corn field where the Burger King is
today. I'd trade the Burger King back in a heart beat