Nostalgia...
Author: ff
Date: 11-28-2009 - 19:23
Back when $150. mo. salary was enuf for some to make it...bread, qt milk, box shredded wheat 10 cents each...gallon of S.O. gas max l3 cents... Mkt St Ry Sunday pass 25 cents...trip across S.F. Bay..SP El or Key.. 12 cents.. or a monthly commute punch out tkt $5. = SP Electric..school tkt bk $2.5O..= Sunday excursion rates... Sun Tan Spl .. to Santa Cruz $1. or $1. round trip.. Oakland to Stockton.. AT&SF = Oakland to Sacto..RT SP or SN $1.. (+ 25 cents extra to ride the Moraga or Sacramento parlor cars)... $1.25 RT Roseville S.P....$1.50 RT Marysville..$2. RT Chico, S.N... = $3.54 monthly commute Salt Lake City - Farmington ..Bamberger...= 14 cents Carson City to Minden...V&T...= First ever Northern Calif fan trip.. SP and NCNG to Grass Valley $4.00..May 16, 1937...= First WP-V&T fan trip Oakland to Gold Hill $9.50 including sleeper... another $1. collected for sleeper the 2nd nite on return ..being some 7 or 8 hrs late into Oakland. Correct me if wrong on any of this.. also by posters everywhere.. a widely advertised S.F.- L.A. round trip? $9.00 S.P.