A couple of weeks ago I posted a comment on a W2 ball thread, I don't remember who I posted to...
I said that I had a couple of tickets that my dad had saved from one of FDR's Inaugural Balls, but I couldn't find them at the time. Well, today while I was doing something entirely unrelated, I found the tickets! Only they are not Inaugural Ball tickets. They are "Birthday Ball" tickets; a charity ball "for the prevention of Infantile Paralysis."
Anyway, here's a look at the tickets, which were good for admission into one or all of five different balls in DC that night:
$2.50 today might get us a ride on the Metro.