two grand (pg 6): $13960.10 today (Friedman)
eight hundred (pg 6): $5584.04 today
two-fifty (pg 6): $1745.01 today
juice (pg 6): money owed to a loan shark (Rader)
taking me to the dentist (pg 6): in context, can be assumed to mean he will be killed
twenty dollar bill (pg 8): $139.60 today
In stir (pg 8): in prison (O'Conner)
put-on (pg 8): a deception (Rader)
candid (pg 9): frank, honest, informal (dictionary.com)
a dollar seventy-five (pg 9): $12.22 today
five hundred (pg 11): $3490.03 today
fifty grand (pg 12): $349,002.58 today
Hammacher Schlemmer (pg 17): founded in 1848 as a hardware store in New York City, now located on East 57th St. The characters would have known it as a place to get new electronics as well, including toasters and electric razors. ("History of Hammacher Schlemmer." )
five thousand (pg 18): $34,900.26 today
amber safe light (pg 20): a light that can be used in a photographic dark room without ruining the product (dictionary.com)
five dollars (pg 21): $34.90
shuttlecock (pg 22): the "birdie" used to play badminton
Unguentine (pg 23): an antiseptic ointment like Neosporin ("Unguentine." )
Shylock (pg 68): A character in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Implies a moneylender who is willing to take "a pound of flesh" or more.
eight hundred (pg 6): $5584.04 today
two-fifty (pg 6): $1745.01 today
juice (pg 6): money owed to a loan shark (Rader)
taking me to the dentist (pg 6): in context, can be assumed to mean he will be killed
twenty dollar bill (pg 8): $139.60 today
In stir (pg 8): in prison (O'Conner)
put-on (pg 8): a deception (Rader)
candid (pg 9): frank, honest, informal (dictionary.com)
a dollar seventy-five (pg 9): $12.22 today
five hundred (pg 11): $3490.03 today
fifty grand (pg 12): $349,002.58 today
Hammacher Schlemmer (pg 17): founded in 1848 as a hardware store in New York City, now located on East 57th St. The characters would have known it as a place to get new electronics as well, including toasters and electric razors. ("History of Hammacher Schlemmer." )
five thousand (pg 18): $34,900.26 today
amber safe light (pg 20): a light that can be used in a photographic dark room without ruining the product (dictionary.com)
five dollars (pg 21): $34.90
shuttlecock (pg 22): the "birdie" used to play badminton
Unguentine (pg 23): an antiseptic ointment like Neosporin ("Unguentine." )
Shylock (pg 68): A character in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Implies a moneylender who is willing to take "a pound of flesh" or more.