#thenandnow — Public Fediverse posts

In the US a very basic weekly food budget for a single person changed dramatically between 1970 and the present. Shared are 3 of the 7 photos a Reddit member shared to illustrate their comments. I was shocked because:

“Can confirm. In 1970 | was a very poor college student living off campus. That first photo labeled 1970 looked like my weekly grocery shopping. I exactly had $10 as my food budget! And, if I wanted to go to a rock concert I had to save the money from the weekly grocery budget. I DID get to see a lot of greats. Stones/Jefferson Airplane/ Moody Blues etc. it was worth almost starving then, ha-ha!”
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#ThenAndNow NW corner Yonge and Castlefield, Capitol Theatre

pics aren't exactly lined up because right now all you'd see from across the street is a huge hoarding, over which i had to hold the camera to get the now shot

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1933 -- 2026 -- 202?

#ThenAndNow Thorncliffe Ski Jump

the ski jump itself, a 60-foot wooden structure, stood at the top of the ravine wall (behind and a bit to my right in the second picture), and the big bend in the West Don river enclosed the ski jump's runout area

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1934 vs 2026

#ThenAndNow Summerhill Ave used to cross the CP rail line at the end of Shaftesbury Ave

1912 vs 2026

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#ThenAndNow Moorevale Park

1930 -- Moorevale shelter
2025 -- Moore Park Tennis Club clubhouse

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#ThenAndNow TTC's Lawton Loop, for streetcars on Yonge street (decades before the subway)

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