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Reeled back: Movies during the Depression Years

By Gregg WendorfAdvance News JournalYou look at these two movie posters from the 1930s, Pharr and San Juan, and you think, move studios were sure pumping out a lot of entertainment during the Depression Years.The average price of a movie theater ticket in the late 1930s was about 25 cents. This was a significant drop from the early 1930s, when tickets cost around 50 cents. The drop in price was due to the Great Depression, which caused many Americans to tighten their belts. (The more things change, the more they stay the same?)To add icing to the cake, most movie ...

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