May 8, 1947, Menasha Record
We last noticed a price increase in men's grooming in 2018 when we ran this post: https://menashabook.blogspot.com/2018/09/shave-and-haircut.html. At that time, 1943, it was 65 cents for a cut and 35 cents for a shave. From this story, we gather that we somehow missed another ten and five cent increase in those four years for a cut and shave. Guess the postwar booming economy will do that to a person.
I had no idea that the local Barbers' union was powerful enough to control the prices of haircuts and shaves throughout the Fox River Valley. Sounds like price collusion to me! ;-) I wonder if the prices were controlled by the O.P.A. (Office of Price Administration) during the WWII years.
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