[daddylongstroke]

>Prices on almost all food, all clothes...

But can we even compare food and clothes from 1920s to today? Of course prices have gone down, and the quality has diminished greatly along with the prices. None of our food is nearly as nutrient dense as it was in the 1920s. Large yields is what the large producers care about. What does this mean for most foods mass produced these days? More water added. You're paying less, because you're getting significantly less.

[anovikov]

...and the leaded gas in 1921 smelled so much better

[daddylongstroke]

Hehe. I don't care much about the smell, but I can tell you the leaded AV gas I use in all of my small motors, directly leads to me not having any engine knocks, easier starting, cooler at run-time, and in two decades of chainsaw operation I haven't had to clean or "rebuild" a carb. Yes, leaded gas is a whole lot "better" technically, than all of the additives we put into "gas" today. Gas really should be called something completely different these days to differentiate it from what it once was.