A former waitress at the old Gainesville Dixie Hunt Hotel restaurant, now in her 90s, brought a 1939 menu a while back to Juan Luna, proprietor of Luna’s Restaurant in Hunt Towers, the former hotel. The country was about to emerge from the Great Depression, and prices were certainly depressed compared to today’s. You could get an “extra thick” U.S. T-bone steak and French-fried potatoes for $1.50.