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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007
posted November 29, 2015 03:42 AM
I have just been watching one of David Guest's £25 bargains, the 1939 feature "Colorado Sunset" with Gene Autry. In one scene his ranch staff visit a nearby restaurant to be told that their meal will be "49 cents, boys, for all you can eat." Was that a good meal deal in 1939? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031168/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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From: Aldershot, Hampshire, UK
Registered: Nov 2013
posted November 30, 2015 08:11 AM
According to the inflationdata.com website 49 cents in 1939 is equivalent to $8.38 in 2015 in the USA. Sounds cheap to me but British restaurant prices may be high by international standards.
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007
posted November 30, 2015 09:52 AM
Thanks to Paul's update of 1939 value to today, I have further converted to GB pounds. This is £5.57 (at today's rate) which is indeed cheap for an all-you-can-eat meal.
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
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posted December 01, 2015 02:35 AM
There was no indication of the year of the film's setting. It was obviously fairly modern as the diary milk collection was by refrigerated trucks and the town had a radio station which broadcast (unwittingly) coded messages from the Chief Baddie to his gang.