Does anyone know how much things cost in 1937, ie bread, milk, tea?

Question

I am doing a scrapbook for someone who is 70 this year and interested in little facts like this to add to it. Can't find it anywhere on the internet!!!!

Answer 1

Bread - 2 bob ha'penny
Milk - Half a crown
Mp3 downloads - 3 guinneas
Kylie CDs - 1 groat

Answer 2

This site has some interesting info not only on prices but historical timelines etc:

Ice cream cost twenty cents for a pint, thirty cents for a quart. Malts, ice cream sodas, sundaes, and sandwiches were a dime. Restaurants served sirloin steak with onions, roast loin of pork, roast fresh ham, or pigs’ knuckles and pigs’ head for twenty-five cents a plate. A haircut and shave cost thirty cents. Milk cost fourteen cents a quart and bread nine cents a loaf. Women’s shoes averaged $15 a pair. A negligee cost $29.95 and corsets $5-10. Men’s suits cost $39.94, shirts $1.65, shoes $12, and coats $37.50-57.50. A radio sold for $158, about the same price as a round-trip plane ticket between New York and Los Angeles. In New York, hotel rooms with bath cost $3 for a single, $4 for a double, and towels cost forty-eight cents. A new vacuum cleaner could be had for $52.20 and a ten-piece Hepplewhite dining room suite with six chairs sold for $490. The Chevrolet roadster cost $495, coupe $565, and sedan $675.

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Good luck!

Answer 3

I have seen "Birthday books/cards" at card shops that give all kinds of facts about a persons birth year, just the kind of stuff you are describing. Check at your local card shops. But I think the last place I saw one was at a Bob Evans or Cracker Barrel in Canton OH

Here is a website that gives more general info on significant events of that year:
http://www.answers.com/topic/1937

You may also like to include some newspaper stories from that time. Here is a link to archived newspapers from 1937 and even later:
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/?gclid=CPmHqKL6vIkCFRyVFQodWW5z-A

Answer 4

get information from a living museum. there is one at Singleton west Sussex,they will help you. failing this why don't you go into an retirement home and see if the residents there can help. I'm sure they will be only to pleased for someone to talk to.happy hunting

Answer 5

they said that an indoor in for about 1 day or so was 10cents.. so u could have imagine the cost of those items

Answer 6

There are some things better looked up on google than Y!A.