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When and what and where was the last time you had a cob web moment? You know the things that set off old memories out of the distant past. I thought about this today while doing a bit of grocery shopping. Red potatoes where $5.29 for 5 lbs. It made me think back to a time before I turned 10 when my mother threw fit that could have been heard from FL to ID. Potatoes had gone in a single week from the staple price of 39¢ for ten pounds to 49¢. Doesn't sound like a lot but that was a 25% increase and a job that would feed a family of 4 paid about $1.75 an hour. This was in the autumn of the Great Depression.
Well let's see. A loaf of Nature's Own Honey Wheat bread is now more than $2.50. I remember when bread was about 27 cents a loaf. I recall a sale when Topp's bread was a nickel a loaf. Even as a child I bought a few loaves to spread around. Just seemed so cheap even to me as a child.
Well that made me remember when I came home from the store for mom with bread (Merita (spelling)) that had gone from 15¢ to 16¢ and that was a big deal. And then the time when Coca Cola in 6 OZ deposit glass bottles sold for 5¢ Went to 6¢ in the machines at gas stations that had water fountains on the side? Yea, and you had to learn to put the penny in first or you lost your money.
I'm a mere 40 yrs. old, so my "remember when" moments don't compare, but...
I took this photo in 1992 (on a cross-country bus trip),
to show how flat Dickenson, North Dakota was.
Now when I look at it,
I'm struck instead by the low price for gasoline.
Seems like everyday has a cob web moment now. Maybe that comes with age, always thinking about how it was, where I was, lots of reminiscing these days.
A few days ago I was grocery shopping and had a hankering for an artichoke. The hankering went away when I saw they wanted 3 dollars for one artichoke. When I lived in Washington during the early 80's I could find them all day long for 50 cents each. Often I could find them on sale for 4 for a dollar.
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