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Sweet Cherries: 1941

Sweet Cherries: 1941

June 1941. Shopping for fruit and vegetables in San Diego. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.

The price of cherries

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!

Familiar

My great aunt and uncle had a place like this except no Fountain Lunch! "Farmade" is a great name.

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