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Couple things

posted 10 years ago by jonkennedy
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-- When Tommy asks his dad for $5.00 at the breakfast table, that would be the equivalent of your kid asking you for almost $50.00 today (2015). Yowza! Even growing up in the '60's, a quarter was a huge deal for a kid that age as you could get a Coke and a candy bar for that much.

-- Product placement: prominent box of Wheaties on the counter in the kitchen during the breakfast scene at the beginning. I thought they had made a special box to make the name stand out, but no, that's what it looked like then. http://vaiden.net/wheaties_cereal.jpg

[–] rosarypliers 10 years ago

Don't forget to give me 50 dollars today!
Why should I?
;)

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[–] hilaryjrp 9 years ago

Glad I read your post. I thought I imagined it when the boy asked for $5.00. What were the screenwriter or director thinking!

[–] liscarkat-2 8 years ago

Even fifteen years after this movie, in 1963, my allowance as a nine-year-old was only 50 cents a week. Five bucks would have seemed like a fortune then, let alone in 1948. I realize it wasn't his allowance the kid was asking for, but money for something special, but I find it a stretch that any dad would have handed over a fin to a kid that age, at that time.

[–] rosarypliers 8 years ago

It was for the summer camp.

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