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[EndtheMadnessNow]

Post'em if you got'em.








Guess I'll watch some old shows I never remember watching. Anyone recognize.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Thanksgiving menu 1889 of Hotel Normandie, Washington DC, whose proprietor has the promising name of “Horace M. Cake”:




Thanksgiving dinner at Howard Johnson’s for $1.35 in 1940:



Every single holiday feast in the technical services division of the CIA in the 1950s:



Thanksgiving dinner on the train, 1900:

[Bally002]

Apart from the LSD Turkey, the other menus were pretty good. Love my seafood and Oysters in particular.  Nowadays an Oyster shucked from the shell wouldn't fit into a tea spoon for 6 to 8 dollars AUS.  

Wonder how big Oysters were back then.  Crays and Lobsters are another like for me.  But I looked at a small cray, that would fit in my hand, for 20 dollars AUS.  Forget it.  Will stick to Banana prawns (shrimp) which are large and cheaper by the kilo/lb. 

We don't have thanksgiving celebrations here but I'm stocking up for Xmas day.

Happy thanksgiving to all you North American friends.

Kind regards,

Bally

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The 1900's menu -

" i'd buy that for a dollar"

Cheers'

Bally

[BIAD]

Apart from the LSD Turkey, the other menus were pretty good. Love my seafood and Oysters in particular.  Nowadays an Oyster shucked from the shell wouldn't fit into a tea spoon for 6 to 8 dollars AUS.  

Wonder how big Oysters were back then.  Crays and Lobsters are another like for me.  But I looked at a small cray, that would fit in my hand, for 20 dollars AUS.  Forget it.  Will stick to Banana prawns (shrimp) which are large and cheaper by the kilo/lb. 

We don't have thanksgiving celebrations here but I'm stocking up for Xmas day.

Happy thanksgiving to all you North American friends.

Kind regards,

Bally

In attempting to equate the costs of such fare from back then to now, I struggle to find an equal and reasonable
mathematical connection between an abundant menu that EndTheMadnessNow provided and what is offered today.

A dollar for all that food...? A consumer income survey from 1950 states:
"Average family income in 1950 was $3,300, or $200 higher than in 1949, according to estimates issued
today by Roy V. Peel, Director, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce..."
Source:

Where as in 2022 (seventy years later)...:
"Median weekly earnings of full-time workers were $1,070 in the third quarter of 2022.
Women had median weekly earnings of $971, or 83.4 percent of the $1,164 median for men.."
Source:

There's certainly something not quite correct here!

[Sol]

Apart from the LSD Turkey, the other menus were pretty good. Love my seafood and Oysters in particular.  Nowadays an Oyster shucked from the shell wouldn't fit into a tea spoon for 6 to 8 dollars AUS.  

Wonder how big Oysters were back then.  Crays and Lobsters are another like for me.  But I looked at a small cray, that would fit in my hand, for 20 dollars AUS.  Forget it.  Will stick to Banana prawns (shrimp) which are large and cheaper by the kilo/lb. 

We don't have thanksgiving celebrations here but I'm stocking up for Xmas day.

Happy thanksgiving to all you North American friends.

Kind regards,

Bally

In attempting to equate the costs of such fare from back then to now, I struggle to find an equal and reasonable
mathematical connection between an abundant menu that EndTheMadnessNow provided and what is offered today.

A dollar for all that food...? A consumer income survey from 1950 states:
"Average family income in 1950 was $3,300, or $200 higher than in 1949, according to estimates issued
today by Roy V. Peel, Director, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce..."
Source:

Where as in 2022 (seventy years later)...:
"Median weekly earnings of full-time workers were $1,070 in the third quarter of 2022.
Women had median weekly earnings of $971, or 83.4 percent of the $1,164 median for men.."
Source:

There's certainly something not quite correct here!

$1.35 adjusted to 2022 individual income would be $24.76 . Based on a $60,000 annual income average. If you transfer that to a family income, where the medium line would be at $110,000 give or take, then that meal would now be $45.00, give or take.

And now I wonder just how much that 'extra serving of turkey if desired' would go for ? 

"I'll take that for $15.00, Alex..."

[BIAD]

$1.35 adjusted to 2022 individual income would be $24.76 . Based on a $60,000 annual income average. If you transfer that to a family income, where the medium line would be at $110,000 give or take, then that meal would now be $45.00, give or take.

And now I wonder just how much that 'extra serving of turkey if desired' would go for ? 

"I'll take that for $15.00, Alex..."

I think I may have to self-correct myself when looking at the dates and the prestige -I believe,
Howard Johnson once held. $1.35 -using Sol's mathematics, equalling $45 dollars today isn't such a
huge leap considering cooking, wages for the staff, a decorated room and all the festive requirements
that Thanksgiving demands.

So the value of money back then and its worth today may be what I was not fully appreciating.

[Bally002]

1911
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This 1911 ad from Guiton & Co. (Albany's Greatest Grocers) promised an entire Thanksgiving meal, including a "Big Roasting Chicken, a loaf of bread, plenty of vegetables, nuts and side dishes" for just $1.49. And that price included shipping.



1921