We went back in the Dayton Daily News archives to find advertised prices on cars, groceries, clothing, electronics, homes and more from the 1930s through the 1980s.
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For this edition of Vintage Dayton, we give you a decades-spanning sampling of ads that reflect how prices changed over time.
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