As I looked at the photo, I was thinking, “They probably paid a nickel for the ice cream since back then everything was a nickel.” But then I noticed on the wagon it says the ice cream sandwiches were only 1 cent.
But usually whenever you hear of something from history – not even that far back, like say the 1940s and 1950s – things were a nickel – the price of a movie admission, the price of a sandwich, the price of an ice cream cone and of course the price of a pickle.
I suppose the cartoon could have taken place today, in a dollar store, where everything is a dollar, but I like historical things and drawing historical images.
I know I went overboard with all the items and prices, but I thought it made the image funnier.
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One of my memories of Miami in the 1950s was parking meters that took pennies! For that one-cent fee you got twelve minutes one the meter.
That would come out to an hour for a nickel. But I think (not a firm memory) by the time they replaced the machines to take nickels (and soon quarters) some inflation had already kicked in and you only got 30 minutes for the 5 cents.
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