Frank, the ice cream man would stop in front of our house almost every summer night and ice cream bars were 15 cents.
Mahady's had those big glass jars of 'penny candy', but some of it was a nickel-still it was great going there and getting gobs of wax candy, jawbreakers, etc for a quarter.
Bet only the oldsters would remember this-even I was really little-Wonder bread used to sell these itty bitty solid loaves for a quarter-not much bigger than a Twinkie. Mom would get that, hand it to us as she continued shopping and we'd munch on it as we shopped.
My parents bought their first house in 1956-the monthly mortgage was $76 a month-dad made $72 a week and fretted that he wouldn't be able to meet the mortgage.
They sold that house about 6 years ago for $139,000.