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<blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 4083390" data-attributes="member: 45785"><p>Grandparents were newlyweds during the Great Depression. They said you could get a 50 pound sack of hominy for a nickel, if you could get the nickel. That would feed them for a couple of weeks. When their first kid, my Uncle Bob, was born, the doc wanted something like $2 in cash for the the delivery, in 1933. They didn't have it, so he took the hand-tatted lace doily's my grandma had made as a down payment. When they wandered back though Grand Junction several years later, with money in their pockets, and stopped to pay him the rest of what he owed, he charged them $11.50, IIRC, the then current rate for a delivery. They were a bit miffed, but also paid up. Didn't get the doily's back, either. </p><p></p><p>The reason he had money to pay was having sold his chicken farm in Michigan. He got paid $10,000 for it. That would have been around 1942 or so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BillM, post: 4083390, member: 45785"] Grandparents were newlyweds during the Great Depression. They said you could get a 50 pound sack of hominy for a nickel, if you could get the nickel. That would feed them for a couple of weeks. When their first kid, my Uncle Bob, was born, the doc wanted something like $2 in cash for the the delivery, in 1933. They didn't have it, so he took the hand-tatted lace doily's my grandma had made as a down payment. When they wandered back though Grand Junction several years later, with money in their pockets, and stopped to pay him the rest of what he owed, he charged them $11.50, IIRC, the then current rate for a delivery. They were a bit miffed, but also paid up. Didn't get the doily's back, either. The reason he had money to pay was having sold his chicken farm in Michigan. He got paid $10,000 for it. That would have been around 1942 or so. [/QUOTE]
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