Mrs. Culp's Diary, Monday, April 5, 1937

Taffeta yardage for a slip

Son William and daughter-in-law 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 $365 upped to $456, perhaps an indication that the depression prices were easing.) Nevertheless, they signed the lease, w…