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Originally Posted by Black Aces 518
When someone mentions the prices of things in years gone by with no context. OMG DID YOU KNOW A LOAF OF BREAD WAS SEVEN CENTS IN 1926????? Without mentioning that people made like $1100 a year or whatever.
My mother kept what seems to be all my dad's W-2s (going back to the 50s) in a fireproof box. I guess it's important to keep 60-year-old W2s around.
Anyway, I found he made $1923 dollars in 1958, the year they got married. I didn't have any context for "how could they live on that?" (even before kids).
Didn't find any papers about the mortgage, but I bet they bought a 3BR, 1BA house for something like $20K (which was a lot of money then).