1920S Essay

House:
$14,500
Average income:
$3,216
Ford car:
$1339-$2262
Henry J car:
$1450.00
Philco model 1403 TV:
$199
Admiral "home entertainment" TV system:
$549.50
12" records:
$4.85
10" records:
$2.85
Milk:
$.82
Gas:
$.20
Bread
$.14
Postage stamp:
$.03
Pumpkins :
$.02 cents a lb
Campbell’s Pork & Beans - (2) 1 lb. cans:
$.25
Sirloin steak:
$.77 lb
Kraft Mayonnaise - quart jar:
$.62.
Gas
$.30.

Food and Groceries cost in the 1950's
These are some of the things you may have seen advertised Below and how much food and groceries cost in the 1950's

American Cheese 45 cents per pound

Apples 39 cents for 2 pounds

Bananas 27 cents for 2 pounds

Box of Chocolates $1.86 for 1lb

Cabbage 6 cents per pound

Campbells Tomato Soup 10 cents

Carnation Milk Can 14 cents

Chickens 43 cents per pound

Chuck Roast 59 cents per pound

Coffee 37 cents 1 pound

Cream Corn 3 cans for 38 cents

Eggs 79 cents for a dozen

Family Style Loaf of bread 12 cents

Frozen Chicken Pie 19 cents

Frozen green Beans 24 cents per 1/2 pound

Gerbers Baby Foods 10 cents

Grape Jelly 19 cents

grapefruit 25 cents for 6

Hamburger meat 89 cents for 3

Heinz Cream of Tomato 25 cents for 2 cans

Hunts Fruit Cocktail 23 cents per can

Hunts Tomato Juice 15 cents

Jiffy Cake Mix 10 cents

Juicy Oranges 69 cents for 2 dozen

Kelloggs Shreaded Wheat 18 cents

Kraft Cheese Slices 29 cents pk

Potatoes 10 lb bag 35 cents

Porterhouse Steak 95 cents

Lamb Chops 49 Cents per pound

large Eggs 49 cents per dozen

Lettuce 25 cents for 2 heads

Lux Flakes 27 cents per pk

margarine 19 cents 1 pound

Maxwell House Instant Coffee $1.19

Miracle Whip 55 cents

Mushrooms 49 cents per pound

Onions 15 cents for 5 pounds

Palmolive 3 for 21 cents

peanut butter 29 cents

Perch 49 cents per pound

Pillsbury Cinnamon rolls 23 cents...