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Extravagant Christmas Gift Ideas From Chicago in 1978
A Chicago based feature lists lavish present options for 1978 including a weekly breakfast catered by George Jewell for a year at six thousand five hundred dollars for two, a year’s supply of caviar for twelve hundred ninety six, a lilac delivery for twelve hundred, and year long plant care for thirteen hundred. Additional items include a Virgin Islands yacht trip for five at nine thousand eight hundred, a four week villa stay on the French Riviera for eleven thousand seven hundred, a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith II lease with chauffeur at twenty one thousand six hundred, a sable coat at sixty five thousand, an interior design package at one hundred fifty thousand, a Queen Mary Suite on the Queen Elizabeth 2 for nine days at one hundred sixty thousand, and a 32 carat diamond brooch pendant priced at two hundred fifty thousand with cash discount.