I Love Lucy wrote:

Thanks for responding. It's hard to imagine those fancy French-named
roses out here in the midwest, but maybe. People wouldn't have spent a
lot on a rose in those days, not that just because they have French
names they would have necessarily been that expensive.

They wouldn't be expensive, new varieties may be more expensive, but
these climbing and rambling forms are different. For instance the Cecile
Brunner dates back to the 1880s and grows like a weed, I've been trying
to kill one for years. Roses like that would be old and probably common
in the 1940s (whoever planted them before would still have too much of
them).

Paulo