825+Discussion+on+the+Babe+and+I

== Please have a discussion about the read aloud in class. If you can do some research about the questions you have, you should post what you find. Each response should be a paragraph long and should include something from the post before yours. ==

nene 1/29/09
==My question was how much was the yankee tickets? i found out that the yankee tickets were only about 25cents. I was thinking if they were 25cents than why it cant be that now. Now as i am writing my response i am thinking how much was the players being paid because if they were 25cents than they must be getting like200-250 hundred dollars if that. So that is was my question and it was amazing to do the reaserch for that question.==

nanyou 1/29/09

what nene wrote was probably right, i found out that in the 1900's, the currency was worth the same as now. for example 10cents now is also 10cents back then. although the worth of the money is the same, the prices back then were cheaper. so 10cents back then had the buying power of 3 dollars now. for example, a quart of milk now is about $2.50. but back then you were able to by milk with about 10cents. so everything back then was cheaper even though the money is worth the same amount. here is a good chart that shows what i mean:

=Retail Prices of Selected Foods in U.S. Cities, 1890–1970=

(in cents per unit indicated)
(5 lbs) ||~ Bread (lb) ||~ Round steak (lb) ||~ Bacon (lb) ||~ Butter (lb) ||~ Eggs (doz.) ||~ Milk (1/2 gal.) ||~ Oranges (doz.) ||~ Potatoes (10 lbs) ||~ Coffee (lb) ||~ Sugar (5 lbs) || NOTE: n.a. = not available.//Source:// U.S. Bureau of the Census, //Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, Bicentennial Edition, Part 2.// Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * ~ Year ||~ Flour
 * 1970 || 58.9¢ || 24.3¢ || 130.2¢ || 94.9¢ || 86.6¢ || 61.4¢ || 65.9¢ || 86.4¢ || 89.7¢ || 91.1¢ || 64.8¢ ||
 * 1965 || 58.1 || 20.9 || 108.4 || 81.3 || 75.4 || 52.7 || 52.6 || 77.8 || 93.7 || 83.3 || 59.0 ||
 * 1960 || 55.4 || 20.3 || 105.5 || 65.5 || 74.9 || 57.3 || 52.0 || 74.8 || 71.8 || 75.3 || 58.2 ||
 * 1955 || 53.8 || 17.7 || 90.3 || 65.9 || 70.9 || 60.6 || 46.2 || 52.8 || 56.4 || 93.0 || 52.1 ||
 * 1950 || 49.1 || 14.3 || 93.6 || 63.7 || 72.9 || 60.4 || 41.2 || 49.3 || 46.1 || 79.4 || 48.7 ||
 * 1945 || 32.1 || 8.8 || 40.6 || 41.1 || 50.7 || 58.1 || 31.2 || 48.5 || 49.3 || 30.5 || 33.4 ||
 * 1940 || 21.5 || 8.0 || 36.4 || 27.3 || 36.0 || 33.1 || 25.6 || 29.1 || 23.9 || 21.2 || 26.0 ||
 * 1935 || 25.3 || 8.3 || 36.0 || 41.3 || 36.0 || 37.6 || 23.4 || 22.0 || 19.1 || 25.7 || 28.2 ||
 * 1930 || 23.0 || 8.6 || 42.6 || 42.5 || 46.4 || 44.5 || 28.2 || 57.1 || 36.0 || 39.5 || 30.5 ||
 * 1925 || 30.5 || 9.3 || 36.2 || 47.1 || 55.2 || 55.4 || 27.8 || 57.1 || 36.0 || 50.4 || 35.0 ||
 * 1920 || 40.5 || 11.5 || 39.5 || 52.3 || 70.1 || 68.1 || 33.4 || 63.2 || 63.0 || 47.0 || 97.0 ||
 * 1915 || 21.0 || 7.0 || 23.0 || 26.9 || 35.8 || 34.1 || 17.6 || n.a. || 15.0 || 30.0 || 33.0 ||
 * 1910 || 18.0 || n.a. || 17.4 || 25.5 || 35.9 || 33.7 || 16.8 || n.a. || 17.0 || n.a. || 30.0 ||
 * 1905 || 16.0 || n.a. || 14.0 || 18.1 || 29.0 || 27.2 || 14.4 || n.a. || 17.0 || n.a. || 30.0 ||
 * 1900 || 12.5 || n.a. || 13.2 || 14.3 || 26.1 || 20.7 || 13.6 || n.a. || 14.0 || n.a. || 30.5 ||
 * 1895 || 12.0 || n.a. || 12.3 || 13.0 || 24.9 || 20.6 || 13.6 || n.a. || 14.0 || n.a. || 26.5 ||
 * 1890 || 14.5 || n.a. || 12.3 || 12.5 || 25.5 || 20.8 || 13.6 || n.a. || 16.0 || n.a. || 34.5 ||

Felice Yang:

Seeing the chart Nanyou provided up there shocked me a little. The cost of goods changed so dramaticlly. But as Nanyou said, the currency back then is the same as now, what caused the cost of goods to go up over these years?

Victoria Blum: I agree i wonder why it has change so much too. I tried to do research but i didn' t find anything. My table was talking about how much five dollars might have been worth. Nanyou answered my question it was the same as today. But everything is more expensive. But what i can guess is maybe the amount of goods increased because industrilization.

Jane Wu: I argree with all the above. everything is more expenisve now maybe because the econmeny went bad and the governemtn just needs lots of money. The chart nan you post surprised me becuase just looking at it from a view just wow.

Jeff: I agree also with you guys. I wonder what happened throughout all those years to make the prices of things rise in such a huge way. From the chart that Nan You provided, i see that all the prices of things rised from little to so high.