Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Mrs. Culp Revisited: March 19, 1937

Mrs. Culp Revisited: March 19, 1937

Beautiful shoes and the best-dressed women in Washington

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Mrs. Culp Revisited: March 19, 1937
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The Culps and a friend, Mrs. G---, drove to St. Petersburg. Ever in search of comfortable footwear, Mrs. Culp wrote, "I bought 1 pair of white shoes at Foot Comfort shoe shop for $12.50." Good heavens! In current dollars, she paid $228 for those shoes! They picked up her sister Else and went to Pass-a-Grille beach for lunch. Here is a 1937 ad for shoes,…

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