Dinner STARTS at $1.75 depending on entree. “3 beans on toast”? Or Leg of Lamb? You want something “nice” you should expect to pay a bit more.
And the public of 1938 would be surprised at what the FCC permits today.
They jazz the media several times every hour now.
And there were white label dirty records back then, but they were sold under the counter, never under the recording artist’s name, and never played on radio or dicussed in the street level culture.
But if you have to ask how much more, you can't afford it.