• Sunday-What'sUP August 22 - 04:06 pm

Ted Anderson has shown up several times on the Pasty Cam during our dozen+ years of daily exploration of the U.P. He grew up in the southern region of the Peninsula, in Iron Mountain, where he attended the Swedish Mission Church as a boy. When he was 16 he saw Babe Ruth get struck out by a local pitcher named Fungo. One year we joined Ted with his Sunday School class on a New Year's skiing trip. For this week's Shoebox Memory his daughter shares another glimpse of Ted's life:

Some more photos related to my dad, Ted Anderson...

I was going through some boxes and found this store ad for the specials my dad had going at the time. I wish it had a date on it, but the prices are pretty amazing.

The other photo shows my dad (on the right) with his brother Willard and two young shoppers. Dad and uncle Will had the store together for a while and then Will went on to other things.

Thanks!
Melodie Hayes

wow...
great prices :)
good sleuthing on the date !!
Kellogs PEP ...don't remember that one. The packaging was plain for sure. Simpler times.

Keep those Shoebox Memories coming. They're great!

I, too, like the Shoebox memories!

No kidding...Charlie...you shoulda been a Private Eye!

And Kellogg's PEP...Interesting...I thought perhaps there was a "secret ingredient", but, according to this;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep_Cereal
It was among the first "fortified" cereals.

Prices adjusted for inflation:

Strawberries.....$2.31/pt
Ritz Crackers....$3.23
Eggs.............$3.23/doz
Ham..............$4.00/lb
Butter...........$3.54/lb


http://www.halfhill.com/inflation.html

Possibly even in August of 1940:
http://www.whiteside.org/event-calendar/month/?date=1940-08-01

How did they ever get kids to eat breakfast without Fruit Loops, Frosted Flakes, or Count Chocula? Crisco is still around but I haven't seen Spry in years. Campbells soup cans haven't changed much. Then there is oleomargarine - that would have been a big seller in a border town like Iron Mountain since it was illegal to sell in Wisconsin.
Thanks for sharing this snap shot of the past.
On a grimmer note, the young men in the photo only had a little more than a year left before WWII involved us. One has to wonder where they were in 1946.

Ted's Grocery:

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Schellots, 4¢/bunch

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Thanks for posting my photos! Excellent job of noting the calendar date :-) I'm just not sure of the date of the sale flyer.

I love and still eat oatmeal daily, with brown sugar and half n half. Does a body good!

especially without the half and half and brown sugar :) not so good tasting, but more healthy...

try fresh strawberries, blueberries, bananas and walnuts, etc etc.

Don't 4 get 2 try thimbleberries.

Thanks for the photo from my home town. My mom lived on A street when she was growing up. Have a wonderful day everyone.