ALPINE, TEXAS

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Lloydville

1935

With thanks to Paul Pearson . . .

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5 thoughts on “ALPINE, TEXAS”

Ken on October 13, 2014 at 06:41 said:

If somebody can budge me out of McSorley’s circa 1912, I’d like to be taken here.
- Lloydville on October 13, 2014 at 07:38 said:
  
  I know what you mean.
Paul Pearson on October 13, 2014 at 16:20 said:

Alternate Universe Pricing = Fried ham is twice as much as a hmaburger and swiss cheese is 5 cents more than the aforementioned burger.

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What gives, Alpine, Texas of 1935?
Paul Pearson on October 13, 2014 at 16:20 said:

hamburger*
- Lloydville on October 14, 2014 at 01:17 said:
  
  Must be related to local production — lots of cows around that part of Texas, fewer pigs, Swiss cheese an exotic import. I recently read a journal of a trip through Texas in the 1850s and it was the same — pork was highly prized, beef a boring alternative. Beef had almost no value in Texas back then, which is why ranchers started driving them a thousand miles to the new rail heads in Kansas in the 1860s, where they could be sold for a handsome profit.

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