[Steely Tom]

"bags of bird food for tuppence (two pence) a bag. The British pound was worth then US five dollars, there were 240 pence (pennies) to the pound. Therefore "tuppence" would have been worth around four US cents."

That is of course in the time of Mary Poppins, which is pre-first-world-war.

Back then, a loaf of bread in the US was something like nine cents.

[bgill]

Back then, a loaf of bread in the US was something like nine cents.

See what happens when you raise the minimum wage.

[Jane Long]

LOL....I was going to post “What a bag of bird feed cost” :-)

[attiladhun2]

Bread had to have been cheaper than 9 cents in 1913. I remember buying a loaf of wonder bread for a dime in the 1950s.