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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
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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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David Guest
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posted November 29, 2015 03:27 PM

cheep as chips

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Paul Mason
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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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Maurice Leakey
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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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Joseph Randall
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posted November 30, 2015 02:19 PM

Was the movie set in 1939? Westerns are usually set earlier.

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Maurice Leakey
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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.

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Joseph Randall
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posted December 01, 2015 06:16 PM

OK -- I've never seen a Gene Autry movie. Don't they usually eat just beans in Westerns? C.F. BLAZING SADDLES.
[Big Grin]

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Pasquale DAlessio
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posted December 01, 2015 07:36 PM

Beans = musical fruit, the more you eat , the more you toot!

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Steve Klare
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posted December 01, 2015 08:26 PM

Joe,

If Beans in Westerns are your thing you should have come to CineSea!

We saw Blazing Saddles in 35mm!

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