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Gas is more of an everyday purchase now than it was in 1930. In 1930, a gallon of gas cost ten cents.
In the year 1930 the average cost of a new car was 640.00. The average cost for a gallon of gas during this time was 10 cents.
An electric or gas refrigerator was a relative rarity in 1930. They were quite expensive compared to the average wage. A new gas refrigerator cost about $150 in 1930s dollars.
The US average in 1930 was 20 cents per gallon. That would be about $2.81 per gallon in today's dollars (2014).
Gas prices remained the same throughout the entire 1930's. It started at $0.10 per gallon and ended that way as well.
In the 1930's sugar had cost 50 cents a pound.
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The average cost of a house in 1930 was 7,145.00. The average income in this same year was 1,970.00. A new car cost 670.00.
In 1939 a new house was about $3800.00. Average wages for a year was $1730.00 and gas was $.10/gallon.
Surprisingly, the cost of a Grand Piano in the 1930'S was about a grand ($1,000.00).
The average price of a house in 1930 was $7145.00
A gallon of gas cost around .17 cents in 1930. Gas prices appear to be at a historical high, and prices of the past appear to be cheap (17 cents per gallon in the 1930s, a quarter in the 1950s and 50 cents in the 1970s). But this is a classic example of "money illusion." In real inflation-adjusted dollars, gas prices are the same or lower today than in most previous decades. That .17 cents in 1930 was considered at the time, expensive considering the average disposable income was less than $500 per year.hopethis helped :}