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Windsor Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1883

Plaza Hotel NYC 1899

Gettysburg Hotel, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 1909


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hardscrabble farmer

Remember the three cardinal points of the Federal Reserve platform-

1)Conducting the nation’s monetary policy by influencing money and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of full employment and stable prices.

2)Supervising and regulating banks and other important financial institutions to ensure the safety and soundness of the nation’s banking and financial system and to protect the credit rights of consumers.

3)Maintaining the stability of the financial system and containing systemic risk that may arise in financial markets.

How’s that workin’ out for ya?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Those early prices were in money based on gold.

Figure todays costs in fractional ounces of gold to get a truer picture of the cost then and now.

Food has actually become much cheaper for us today and more people are able to afford luxury thanksgiving meals as a result.

This isn’t because of the monetary system, it is because of our progress in higher production using less labor.

Which presents us with a different set of problems to deal with (such as too little work for too many workers).

overthecliff

That was the menu at Gettysburg in 1909? That kind of selection is only available to the .01% today. The cost would be staggering to anyone else.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Over

probably a lot more than the .01%.

A whole lot more.

And it was probably “staggering” to most people back then when half of wage earners made less than $10 a week to feed, clothe, house and care for their entire family (and women usually didn’t work).

suzanna

gentlemen,

women worked, trust me.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Oh, suzanna ….

Worked for certain, but not at employment outside the home so much,

Historical stats show there was far more child labor in those days than female labor.

And most of the working women -at jobs outside the home- were single women with widowed women following them in numbers.

Those were the days when women actually had value because they were women and essential to the survival of the family and by extension the survival of humanity.

SSS

No bacon on any of the menus. Pathetic.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Today’s popular culture was programmed after the Roswell Incident in the 50’s when frozen dinners came into vogue. Anything that could be frozen and shipped across the country was in and everything that had any flavor was out. Americans honor American traditions in the breach. American culture is whatever the corporations say and we export this corporate approved culture abroad as the pinnacle of modernity. I don’t care what Maggie says about LI Wilder, Little House On the Prairie is our peek into American’s past.
(Funny that Maggie took up that lifestyle herself.)

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