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Thank goodness for metrification!

wow this is tricky!

Nicole Davis I agree, Anna is really testing us with this one! AB

I tried feeding the prices into the calculator at www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/ for 1906 (when Central Station first opened), 1919 (for the twitterer), 1925, and 1950. I doubled the result amount to get AU$ in current value. The 1906 date gave prices for 9d spirit glasses roughly the same as today (c.$6), but the 'quarts' seemed prohibitively expensive at over $100. Is a quart the same as a bottle? The 1950 date gave exceedingly cheap 9d glasses (c.$2), but the quarts were roughly equivalent to today (c.$33). I am inclined to the earlier (1906) date - they were profiteering on the quarts! The SMH has reports of the new Central Railway Refreshment Rooms being the place of regular Sunday booze-ups, because everywhere else was closed. trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14758653

The plastic lettering looks post-war, maybe 1946-47. I've seen this photo in NSWGR literature from the period, just have to find it.

Opera singers Leontyne Price and Robert Merrill sang amidst the Metropolitan Opera House's construction. Merrill's baritone was often heard at Yankee and Giants Stadiums, singing the National Anthem. Price once performed at the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium (1953). The blue lines and arrows are on the original item and indicate where the newspaper planned to crop the portrait for publication.

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and her shoes are not clunky enough.