Exactly. At most families had one car. The only entertainment “gadget” was a radio, as Televisions were just beginning to enter into the picture. Food was generally made from scratch, so food costs were a fraction of what people pay today for food.
Right you are. And imagine how affordable health care would be if the most complicated medical procedure was an X-ray ... if cancer was always a death sentence ... and if people usually didn’t survive a heart attack or stroke.