Check out this newspaper ad. It is for the North Figuer-O Café and is promoting their Mexican dishes. You could get a quite filling meal for 50 cents. This was an ad found in the30 December 1941 edition of the short-lived Highland Park Post-Dispatch.
If you’re looking for old editions of local newspapers, including our own Highland Park News-Herald & Journal or Highland Park Post-Dispatch, you should check out the California Digital Newspaper Collection housed at the University of California at Riverside and available online at https://cdnc.ucr.edu/