Pumps' Perplexities

For me to watch the movie Marty is like taking a time machine
back into history......The movie of a Bronx, New York butcher
finding love, was filmed in MY section of the Bronx......Streets,
buses, elevated subway trains and the exterior of the RKO
Chester movie theater do bring back memories......

Between the dialog and window signs, we find out that 4 cut
pork chops cost $1.79........Rib steak was 74 cents a pound and
54 cents got you a pound of stew beef........What the movie does
not tell you that the average person was making anywhere from
65 cents to one dollar an hour back in 1955.......

When you come to think about it, both back then and today, you
have to work one hour for a pound of good steak......(It's $9 to $14
today)........

Financially the struggle was the same......The only thing different
was the general outlook of society........There was not Political
Correctness (Stupid Polish and Italian jokes abound) and no one
seemed to have a "chip" on his shoulder........You did not have
time to develope one, you were too busy working.....

Even as a better comparison, ten years earlier in 1945 a loaf of
bread was 5 cents and cabbage was a penny a pound......Can you
imagine the complains about "inflation" in the '50s?.......Pumps