$5 for a hotel in Manhattan?
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karenporritt-1 — 14 years ago(May 29, 2011 03:38 PM)
According to the inflation calculator:
What cost $30 in 2010 would cost $4.84 in 1968.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 1968 and 2010,
they would cost you $30 and $190.65 respectively.
So it does make sense. -
bradford-1 — 13 years ago(April 24, 2012 01:00 PM)
When I came to Manhattan to work in Sept. 1985, there was a seedy hotel catering to tourists and hookers down the street from my company in Times Square. Single rooms were $40 a day, double rooms were $50.
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?" -
bradford-1 — 13 years ago(May 14, 2012 02:39 PM)
It's a line uttered by Clifton Webb to Audrey Dalton in TITANIC (1953). She's his daughter and a steward has just delivered breakfast to their stateroom the morning of April 14, 1912.
"May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?" -
sherpa50 — 13 years ago(September 30, 2012 04:58 PM)
In 1971 I was in NYC with a friend for my 21st birthday. I took my birthday loot & treated us to a night at the Plaza Hotel (we had been staying with relatives). The room was $60 & it was beautiful (the bathroom was all marble & huge). And I paid in cash - no credit card needed.
"I bet you write wonderful letters."