"...it was hard but things were cheap..."

- Don Graves (WW2 marine and veteran) on Great depression prices in https://youtu.be/N6naKvmyWAw?t=456

"I came up through the end of the big crash and went into the Great Depression

and President Roosevelt was our president and thanked the Lord he got in

be when we had that because he settled he got us out of it

nobody had anything gas was 10 cents a gallon for your car

my my mother used to put 50 cents in and we'd ride around a little bit

I us kids would chip in some money would have an old car

and we'd chip in dimes nickels whatever we had we'd pull up in front of a pump

they pump your gas for you they wipe your windshield and everything you got everything for that dime oh wow and we

and we didn't want to say he said how much gas do you need there young fellas I said uh put 50 cents in and he'd look

at us yeah that's 50 cents that's five gallons five gallons of gas we could last all day on that so you know it was hard but things were cheap how old were you when the correct Depression hit the"

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