The cost of living in 1939: a loaf of bread was 7 cents, a gallon of gas was 8 cents, a gallon of milk was 46 cents, the average income was $1600, a new car was $650, and a new house was $3500. If you could afford the house and car, as we were in the midst of the Great Depression.
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