These 1930s NYC apartment listings for $4 a week and up made me sad. That's about $74 a week today, accounting for inflation, BTW. Even $25 a week is under $500 a month. For context, I currently live in Manhattan with a roommate, and my rent is about $2k...just for my room, not the whole apartment. Electricity and heat are not included.
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Washington 9 month s ago
#26 In Mexico there is no Taco Bell... (gringo invention) 
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Delphia 9 month s ago
Washington, Taco Bell is just a tacqueria chain.
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Sylvester 9 month s ago
#3-The sad poster forgot to mention his wages also went up proportionally to the rent. People that were paying 4 bucks a month were making anywhere for 10 to 43 cents an hour. How much is that knucklehead making now?
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Delphia 9 month s ago
#9 Most people could use the bookkeeping class with the way the young generations go into debt and can't afford anything. Knowing how to budget and save is important.
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Petronella 8 month s ago
Delphia,
Like student debt and medical debt and spending most of their money on rent. Those young generations, am I right?
Like student debt and medical debt and spending most of their money on rent. Those young generations, am I right?
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Beedy 7 month s ago
Petronella, I know someone who worked her way through college within the last ten years. You children need to stop acting like impossible to do that. ...Also, as a result of medical problems, I became homeless more than once in my 20s and 30s, but I continued to pay my student loan - while homeless. One of those times, I was homeless for two solid years. But I paid my loan off. Stop your crying, you spoiled little children.
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Horace 8 month s ago
#25 I bet the other thing is that the women changed too.
#30 She was dreaming if she wanted a man in good financial position. There’s only one reason for a middle aged man to date a 106 year old.
#30 She was dreaming if she wanted a man in good financial position. There’s only one reason for a middle aged man to date a 106 year old.
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Petronella 8 month s ago
#3 a new York apartment was 16$ per month. A room, not an apartment, is now 2000$ a month. That's 125 times more rent. The average income in the US in 1930 was 1388$. This would be an average (!) income of 175,000$ today if rent and income grew in the same rate. The average income today is at round about 80,000$
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Beedy 7 month s ago
#4 Village People: violence. I've been laid low with a migraine for about a week, with no sign of letting up. But this actually made me smile. I mean, every time I do the YMCA dance, I get so worked up I just wanna, I dunno, punch my pillow or something really hard.
#8 I knew a guy whose mother - a respected attorney - was thrown out of court for wearing slacks in court. She later became DA for the city, which at the time was the 3rd largest in the US. (btw: 'pants' was still probably not as common a term; they were more likely called slacks for women or trousers for men. To this day, 'pants' in much of the English-speaking world refers to underwear, ie panties)
#9 Home Economics was required into the 70s until the women's libbers complained it was sexist; so it was eventually dropped. 50 years later - on these very boards - women (and men, apparently) now complain that they get no training at things such as budgeting, etc. You asked for it; you got it. Now go cry about not being able to cook for yourself cost-effectively.
#11 Without question the most incredible item on this list. I don't mean the sex toys. I mean the idiot poster saying 'I didn't know they had sex toys in the 30s'. Wtf. Do you children think you invented sex?
#13 So I guess you kids invented misleading titles, too. You think click bait is where misleading titles started? That example of a supposed cancer cure is the perfect example. As old as time itself.
#14 Ford was a horrible anti-semite. He did eventually change his views, to the point of taking steps to cease publication of his anti-semitic writings. His apologies, which he made in the late 20s well before WWII, were received surprisingly well by the Jewish population, as evidenced by the overwhelmingly positive letters received from Jewish people. After the war, when shown film of the concentration camps, he suffered a stroke which eventually killed him. However, the damage had been done, and couldn't be undone. I visited Dachau as a teenager on an exchange program in high school. 50 year later, it is still numbing. ...btw: in the 90s, when Rush Limbaugh was at the height of his popularity, and when Fox news was emerging, I told people we were going to have our Hitler. I knew this because i talked to camp survivors who said that their oppression started with two things: jokes - such as the 'jokes' told by Limbaugh, and propaganda being disseminated as 'news', like on Fox. And here we are 30 years later; we have our Hitler.
#8 I knew a guy whose mother - a respected attorney - was thrown out of court for wearing slacks in court. She later became DA for the city, which at the time was the 3rd largest in the US. (btw: 'pants' was still probably not as common a term; they were more likely called slacks for women or trousers for men. To this day, 'pants' in much of the English-speaking world refers to underwear, ie panties)
#9 Home Economics was required into the 70s until the women's libbers complained it was sexist; so it was eventually dropped. 50 years later - on these very boards - women (and men, apparently) now complain that they get no training at things such as budgeting, etc. You asked for it; you got it. Now go cry about not being able to cook for yourself cost-effectively.
#11 Without question the most incredible item on this list. I don't mean the sex toys. I mean the idiot poster saying 'I didn't know they had sex toys in the 30s'. Wtf. Do you children think you invented sex?
#13 So I guess you kids invented misleading titles, too. You think click bait is where misleading titles started? That example of a supposed cancer cure is the perfect example. As old as time itself.
#14 Ford was a horrible anti-semite. He did eventually change his views, to the point of taking steps to cease publication of his anti-semitic writings. His apologies, which he made in the late 20s well before WWII, were received surprisingly well by the Jewish population, as evidenced by the overwhelmingly positive letters received from Jewish people. After the war, when shown film of the concentration camps, he suffered a stroke which eventually killed him. However, the damage had been done, and couldn't be undone. I visited Dachau as a teenager on an exchange program in high school. 50 year later, it is still numbing. ...btw: in the 90s, when Rush Limbaugh was at the height of his popularity, and when Fox news was emerging, I told people we were going to have our Hitler. I knew this because i talked to camp survivors who said that their oppression started with two things: jokes - such as the 'jokes' told by Limbaugh, and propaganda being disseminated as 'news', like on Fox. And here we are 30 years later; we have our Hitler.
Like student debt and medical debt and spending most of their money on rent. Those young generations, am I right?
#30 She was dreaming if she wanted a man in good financial position. There’s only one reason for a middle aged man to date a 106 year old.
#8 I knew a guy whose mother - a respected attorney - was thrown out of court for wearing slacks in court. She later became DA for the city, which at the time was the 3rd largest in the US. (btw: 'pants' was still probably not as common a term; they were more likely called slacks for women or trousers for men. To this day, 'pants' in much of the English-speaking world refers to underwear, ie panties)
#9 Home Economics was required into the 70s until the women's libbers complained it was sexist; so it was eventually dropped. 50 years later - on these very boards - women (and men, apparently) now complain that they get no training at things such as budgeting, etc. You asked for it; you got it. Now go cry about not being able to cook for yourself cost-effectively.
#11 Without question the most incredible item on this list. I don't mean the sex toys. I mean the idiot poster saying 'I didn't know they had sex toys in the 30s'. Wtf. Do you children think you invented sex?
#13 So I guess you kids invented misleading titles, too. You think click bait is where misleading titles started? That example of a supposed cancer cure is the perfect example. As old as time itself.
#14 Ford was a horrible anti-semite. He did eventually change his views, to the point of taking steps to cease publication of his anti-semitic writings. His apologies, which he made in the late 20s well before WWII, were received surprisingly well by the Jewish population, as evidenced by the overwhelmingly positive letters received from Jewish people. After the war, when shown film of the concentration camps, he suffered a stroke which eventually killed him. However, the damage had been done, and couldn't be undone. I visited Dachau as a teenager on an exchange program in high school. 50 year later, it is still numbing. ...btw: in the 90s, when Rush Limbaugh was at the height of his popularity, and when Fox news was emerging, I told people we were going to have our Hitler. I knew this because i talked to camp survivors who said that their oppression started with two things: jokes - such as the 'jokes' told by Limbaugh, and propaganda being disseminated as 'news', like on Fox. And here we are 30 years later; we have our Hitler.