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Sweet Cherries: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 01/15/2008 - 6:34pm.
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June 1941. Shopping for fruit and vegetables in San Diego. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
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The price of cherries
Submitted by Bruce Anderson on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 1:01am.
I've got my wife's great-grandmother's hand-written recipe book from this era, and throughout whenever it mentions cherries, it specifies a certain value amount, such as five cents' worth. I could never figure out what that actually meant in a meaningful measurement. Now I know! It's a quarter-pound!
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Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 8:35pm.
My great aunt and uncle had a place like this except no Fountain Lunch! "Farmade" is a great name.
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