Old Movie Perspective
I watched the first episode of The Twilight Zone tonight on a whim, and it was awesome, not because of production values or because the plot was unique, but because of the historical perspective. The episode, called Where is Everybody , is set in 1959, it's black and white, and it's set in a town called Oakville, which was created on the courthouse square set which is the same one used in a lot of movies and tv shows, but most famously, Back to the Future and To Kill a Mockingbird. Warning: spoilers ahead! At one point, the main character, who finds himself in an abandoned town, wanders into a cafe and shouts out that he is a hungry man with 2 dollars and 85 cents in his pocket. His tone implied that was more than enough money to fill a man's belly. I was curious about how much that is in 2017 money, so I found a site that makes that conversion. In 1959, $2.85 would buy you the same amount of stuff as $23.88 would today. In ...
