I’ve just been reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. When he arrived in Philadelphia for the first time as a teenager, he stopped at a bakery and asked for three pennys worth of bread. It turned out that prices were lower there than he was used to, and they gave him three large loaves. He ate one and gave the other two away.
I remember being able to get a few things for one penny even a couple of centuries after Ben Franklin, but now it’s hard to find anything for much less than a dollar.
I’ve just been reading The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. When he arrived in Philadelphia for the first time as a teenager, he stopped at a bakery and asked for three pennys worth of bread. It turned out that prices were lower there than he was used to, and they gave him three large loaves. He ate one and gave the other two away.
I remember being able to get a few things for one penny even a couple of centuries after Ben Franklin, but now it’s hard to find anything for much less than a dollar.