Subdeacon Joe Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Woolworth Company Menu. Butte Montana in 1946. From the National Archives https://catalog.archives.gov/id/109190764p I wonder which of these was closest to their Spanish Spaghetti A couple of versions of Spanish Spaghetti https://spainonafork.com/spanish-garlic-spaghetti-recipe/ https://dinnersdishesanddesserts.com/spanish-spaghetti-with-olives/#wprm-recipe-container-30126 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pat Riot Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 What? No burgers? No fries? What gives? I call Cole Slaw “cabbage salad” just to irk family members. I wonder if the cabbage salad on the menu is Cole Slaw? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 27 Author Share Posted September 27 45 minutes ago, Pat Riot said: What? No burgers? No fries? What gives? I call Cole Slaw “cabbage salad” just to irk family members. I wonder if the cabbage salad on the menu is Cole Slaw? Your comment made me look again. Nothing at all deep fried. Made me wonder about rationing. But rationing of oils and cooking fats had ended in 1944. Maybe still shortages? https://www.sarahsundin.com/make-it-do-rationing-of-fats-oils-in-world-war-ii-2/ Since coleslaw translates to cabbage salad it's reasonable to assume that is what it is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 Wonder how many people today know what a pasty is? That rhymes with nasty, by the way, not tasty. The one that rhymes with tasty is hanging on a stripper. This thing is a big meat and turnip pie. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 1 hour ago, Alpo said: Wonder how many people today know what a pasty is? That rhymes with nasty, by the way, not tasty. The one that rhymes with tasty is hanging on a stripper. This thing is a big meat and turnip pie. We had a Pasty shop near us in Garden Grove, CA. It was a call in / pick up affair. You could also order at the counter. They had a variety of different ones. There was one like a beef pot pie only very little gravy. It was my favorite. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 In 1946 average white male annual income was about $2700, non-white male income was about $1800. So that 40 cent Woolworth sandwich would cost nearly $6.00 today, figuring average annual income of about $40,000. Not trying to prove anything other than inflation happens, which isn't news to anyone. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Chapo Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 23 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said: In 1946 average white male annual income was about $2700, non-white male income was about $1800. So that 40 cent Woolworth sandwich would cost nearly $6.00 today, figuring average annual income of about $40,000. Not trying to prove anything other than inflation happens, which isn't news to anyone. A $6 would be a bargain today, although according to the CPI, it's closer to $7 than $6. The average individual income is about 40% higher than your estimate though. Even my secretary makes quite a bit more than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 (edited) Where do you guys live where you can get a decent sandwich for $6.00? Prices around here have about doubled in the past four years. Lunches that cost me 12 to 15 dollars in 2020 now cost 25 to 30 dollars. I am shocked every time a waitress, opps sorry, service specialist, lays the bill on my table. I have no idea about the price of groceries as I do not cook. I eat all my meals out so I DO KNOW what those cost. The Dow was 177 in 1946. Now it is 42,000. P.S. In the mid 60s I was making .90 cents an hour. McDonalds burgers were .15 and cheese burgers were .17. Edited September 27 by Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Kris Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 2 hours ago, Pat Riot said: We had a Pasty shop near us in Garden Grove, CA. It was a call in / pick up affair. You could also order at the counter. They had a variety of different ones. There was one like a beef pot pie only very little gravy. It was my favorite. I know that place well. Really good pies. We try to stop by there every time we go back, as well as the fabulous Kosher deli down the street from it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 27 Share Posted September 27 3 hours ago, Calamity Kris said: I know that place well. Really good pies. We try to stop by there every time we go back, as well as the fabulous Kosher deli down the street from it. Karelia Deli? Great place. We also liked Gourmet Pie and Cafe. Best carrot cake in the planet! I’m making myself hungry here… Polly’s Pies too. And Joe Schmoe’s hot dogs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 12 hours ago, Alpo said: Wonder how many people today know what a pasty is? That rhymes with nasty, by the way, not tasty. The one that rhymes with tasty is hanging on a stripper. This thing is a big meat and turnip pie. i do , i live in the land of finlanders and such , the north coast still has shops that specialize in them , if you drive the north shore highway you will find a couple that make great ones , by the way that was lunch for many miners and lumbermen here 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted September 28 Author Share Posted September 28 1 hour ago, watab kid said: by the way that was lunch for many miners and lumbermen here Out here in California, too. Supposedly the pasty was carried in a pocket. Darned tough crust. Your post got me thinking about miners lunch buckets. https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2008/06/every-coal-miners-lunch-bucket-smelled.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 10 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Out here in California, too. Supposedly the pasty was carried in a pocket. Darned tough crust. Your post got me thinking about miners lunch buckets. https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2008/06/every-coal-miners-lunch-bucket-smelled.html thats cool - i was in coal mine country last week fishing an old strip mine , up here we were mining taconite , ive seen examples of such a lunch bucket at some of the museums attached to the mines in that are open to tour , been deep in the one in virginia mn , when they turned out the lights it was like the world was swallowed in the dark , 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgavin Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 The above is living proof refuting the morons who claim inflation is under control. Prices will *never* return to those shown above. In my lifetime I remember $0.17 gas, $0.50 22LR box of 50, $2700 for a new Chevy Van, and $14,000 for a new beach house in San Diego. Today I'm paying $4.69 for gas, $38,000 for a new truck and that beach house is currently worth $2.2M 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.K. Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 I remember my Grand Mother taking me and my older brother to the Woolworths dining counter while shopping in So Cal back in the early sixties. If we behaved during the shopping trip we were rewarded with an Orange Julius afterward. I imagine the prices were a bit higher then. Below we were at Knotts berry farm @ 1966 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calamity Kris Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 On 9/27/2024 at 4:16 PM, Pat Riot said: Karelia Deli? Great place. We also liked Gourmet Pie and Cafe. Best carrot cake in the planet! I’m making myself hungry here… Polly’s Pies too. And Joe Schmoe’s hot dogs Katella Deli. Named after the address. Best Matzo Ball soup in the greater LA area, bar none. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Calamity Kris said: Katella Deli. Named after the address. Best Matzo Ball soup in the greater LA area, bar none. Pretty sure I typed Katella. Otto changed it to Karelia, whatever the heck that means. Their sandwiches were excellent. So were their soups. Edited September 29 by Pat Riot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 In 2003, on the first of my two tours of duty in California, I just about died on the freeway in Garden Grove. Who puts stop lights on acceleration ramps??? Fortunately, all I got were horns and digital salutes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Kane Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 My Dad was born in 1924 and grew up on a South Texas farm during the depression. He’d tell us about the family Saturday shopping trips into nearby Raymondville, Tx when he and my uncles, each carrying only a quarter, could pay to watch a double feature at the movie theater, later buy a hamburger and a Coke and bring home change in their pockets. “We were poor but didn’t know it”, said a Dad and many of his contemporaries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted September 29 Share Posted September 29 23 hours ago, Pat Riot said: Pretty sure I typed Katella. Otto changed it to Karelia, whatever the heck that means. Part of Finland..... 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 Supposed to be a photo of a Woolworth’s counter. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 Could very well be. Looks like an orange julius machine at this end, and a root beer dispenser at the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamus McGillicuddy Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 (edited) 10 cents for hot mince pie! Anybody got a time machine handy? Seamus Edited October 4 by Seamus McGillicuddy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 (edited) I used to go to downtown Cleveland with my mom on the bus a few times a year. She didn't drive. It was such a treat! Edited October 2 by Rye Miles #13621 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WOLFY Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 (edited) 1952 in San Francisco (my dad said that in that era, his aunt would take him and his brother here for lunch as a treat). Edited October 2 by WOLFY 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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