Food Prices and Flute Music From 1931 | From the WNYC Archives

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In this clip, one of the features on “your city station” - that era's WNYC - is a rundown of current food prices in local markets throughout the city. Two years into the Great Depression, all eyes are on prices by the pound. And once you had absorbed that bit of information, you’d need a break - next on the schedule was, of all things, flute music.
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This spot is narrated by Sara Fishko.
Video by Kim Nowacki.
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