Mrs. Culp Revisited: April 5, 1937

William and Jackie get a shock

William and Jackie went to the Mabry Real Estate office to rent the apartment at 2107 Jefferson Street and learned to their dismay that the rent had been raised from $20 a month to $25. (In today's dollars, that's $394 upped to $492, perhaps an indication that the Depression prices were easing.) Nevertheless, they signed the lease, with Mrs. Culp helpin…