cost of living... remember when
when i was young there was a country store we walked to and could watch the butcher slice you a chunk of ham and make you a sandwitch walk over to the ice barrel pick out a coke for 25 cents. and even though you were young could buy a surplus rifle from the gun barrel and as many loose shells as you could grab with 1 hand for 20 bucks. Thse were the days. the old fellows would be sittin round the wood stove smokin their pipes...i can still smell the aroma. and to top it off you knew everyone and they knew you. ahh home.
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I grew up in a little town that had a hardware store that was never manned. If you wanted something from the store, you picked it out and then took it down the block to the grocery store to pay for it. It was this way up until the early 90's. 0 -
Now you can buy a surplus MN rifle and 1,200 rounds of ammo for about 150.00. Inflation has not hit that market much.
My brother was doing some kitchen renovation, we found some old supermarket adds from the 1970's used for packing. Ham was $2.69 a pound. Whole chickens were .69 cents a pound and ground chuck was 2.89 a pound. That was 30 years ago; the prices are the same for the same items in my local food store and Walmart today.
The thing I think got outrageous is Campbell's Vegetable Beef soup. It used to cost .59 cents a can. Now it is a smaller can and costs over a buck. What the hell is up with that deal?0 -
gas .19 cents as high as.25 , NOW ???
Midwest in 1963.0 -
I remember when Coke was a dime and Pepsi, a nickle.
Pepsi advertized with a song on the radio: Pepsi Cola hits the spot, 12 full ounces that's a lot, twice as much for a nickle too, Pepsi Cola's the drink for you.
For a kid at the time, Coke didn't make cents.0 -
When I was in Jr. High (1969) my dad would drop me off at the movie with a dollar. For that dollar, I got a movie ticket .40, a bag of red twisters .25, a bag of popcorn .10 and at least one bottle of grape soda .10.... 0 -
I remember going to Baskin Robbins and getting a really large scoop of Ice Cream for .25 cents. what is it now $1.50 for less ice cream? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by big mango
gas .19 cents as high as.25 , NOW ???
Midwest in 1963.
Yes, we had a discount gas station in Richmond, Indiana named "Vortex" and gas was .19 per gallon. You could drive around most of the night on $1. This was 1959-60 era.0 -
Unfortunately, those time's are a thing of the past. 0 -
so are our firearm deals, all gone away , good deals on great guns 0 -
I guess Einstein was right. Everything is relative. When I was in high school Coke was a nickel, gas was 18? a gallon and you could buy a case of dynamite at the hardware store as a matter of routine business. Nothing stays the same. Adjusted for inflation, Coke should be 50? for six ounces and gas should be $1.80 per gallon. 0 -
I remember going to town as a kid and a dime in our pocket for helping Dad out, we could buy a bottle of pop and a big candy bar. If you sat in the chairs at the store and drank your pop you could also get 3 pieces of bubble gum for the bottle deposit which was 3 cents.
I also remember leaving my car setting downtown on mainstreet with the windows down and the keys in the ignition for about a week. As I went thru town one of those days it was gone. The next day I finally went to get it and there it was, plus whoever borrowed it left it with a full tank of gas. It's just the way things were back then.0 -
When I started driving, gas was .94 per gallon, that was back in 1999. Back then a 16 year old could drive a truck that got 8 mpg on a stock clerk's pay. The memories. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
I guess Einstein was right. Everything is relative. When I was in high school Coke was a nickel, gas was 18? a gallon and you could buy a case of dynamite at the hardware store as a matter of routine business. Nothing stays the same. Adjusted for inflation, Coke should be 50? for six ounces and gas should be $1.80 per gallon.
sounds like coke is cheaper now but gas is more expensive, oh well win some lose some0 -
quote:Originally posted by bpost1958
...ham...chicken...ground chuck.... the same... Campbell's Vegetable Beef soup... used to cost .59 cents a can. Now it is a smaller can and costs over a buck. What the hell is up with that deal?
A can of soup tends to be more labor intensive than smoked or fresh meat.0 -
I thought it was getting outrageous when you only got 4 gallons of gas for a buck, instead of 5.
Barrels of rifles at the Army Surplus store. $19.95, $29.95, and $39,95 take your pick. Everyone talked with the salesman about the "new" rifle for the KID. (new hunter) No doubt as to who was buying it, and who was going to use it. No questions, no paperwork, the KID paid cash, and carried it out the door.
And a HAPPY KID I was. [:D][:D][:D]0 -
I remember punch top soda cans and returnable soda bottles. The vietnam war and the first moon landing. 10c ice cream bars and 10c candy bars. I remember carbon batteries and black and white TV shows.
I remember hand held transister radios and free road maps.0 -
I remember when twenty cents per week as an allowance seemed like a whole lot of money.
Of course that's different now.
But I think what our kids are really missing out on is the chance to go visit places that haven't been totally westernized. You get a different view of the world when the only milk you can get is powdered milk, because by the time the non-refrigerated grocery truck makes it to your village, the milk is spoiled. (And the locals learned to make that into alcohol...they called it maas, and it smelled to me like vomit. But apparently it was pretty potent.)
Any number of people would jump on me for saying that. I'm suggesting that some of the world's population should lack technology for the amusement of our children. Maybe they have a point. Anyway, I'm glad I grew up in a place that had only about half of the then-growing western technology.0 -
I remember clubbbing my first girl friend and dragging her back to the cave. I remember my first wheel.And fire! Ah,fire.Now that was a big deal. Guess I`m a little older that you guys. 0 -
Always remember that "back in the day" when gas was a quarter that a good weeks pay was less than $100 (and that was for a union shop).
Of course a new Caddy was $4,000, a new Chevy would run you about $2,000, and at 50,000 miles you prayed it would make it to the scrapyard.0 -
quote:When I started driving, gas was .94 per gallon, that was back in 1999.
All of 7 1/2 years ago! Man, I'm surprised you can even REMEMBER that long ago! [:p]0 -
In the early 1960s in Richmond,VA there was no self serve. You pulled into a station and were asked if you wanted a fill up. If you said yes three attendants started on your car. One pumping gas, one washing the windows and lights and the third checking fluid levels under the hood. When finished, you handed the attendant a $5 bill and got change, all the while never leaving your car. 0 -
Cant see left my glaases at home!!!
Not responable for errores!
AGGGGH Yeah.......
The days of the $5 all night date.
5 gallons of regular gas =$1.
McD's or Dairy Queen small burger, fires & coke=69 cents each.
1 pint of Everclear=$1.00
2 large Dr. Peppers for mix= 20 cents
1 Carload ticket to the drive in $1.250 -
hell a nova with a hot motor was about 3 to 4 grand. 0 -
OYeah you knew Nova too???
How about her sister Theresa?
She was Hot too!0 -
In Brooklyn, "candy stores" (newstands, all with candies and some with fountain service) dotted the landscape and I remember going to the one on the corner down from my house and picking up two or three loose cigarettes for my dad for just a few pennies. An ice cream cone with two scoops and spinkles (jimmies) in a hard cone was 15 cents. A bottle of soda was 10 cents if you drank it in the store, 12 cents if you took it with you BUT there was a 2 cent deposit refund when you brought back the empty! 0 -
I must admit I have a hard time getting nostalgic over some old farts sleeping in public. 0 -
I can remember the "Barrel of Guns" at a local grocery store when I was a kid...$12-18 bucks..your pick. High school era...Levi's were $3.75 a pair and gas was .29 cents. .22 ammo was .18-20 cents a box and a Colt Python was only $109 out of the Herters catalog... 0 -
Used to, you could buy a woman for twenty bucks too.[;)]
Many things, including guns are now cheaper than they ever were.
When you figure the man-hours required to work verses the list price of an item, you will see what I am talking about.
I made a $1.65 an hour when I started working. Coke was a dime and a penny tax. A Hershey bar was a nickle. So it took me about 10 minutes of work to pay for it. Compare that with today.
A new Colt forty five was about $109 or so, a couple of weeks worth of work. Who still pays a whole paycheck for a forty five? Not many.
Don't let the apples and orange comparisons fool you.0 -
Yep. I remember those days when sodies were 1.25, gas was 2.00 or more, a candy bar was .55 cents, Oh those good days! now its 1.50 for a soda, dont know candy prices, and gas is in upwards of 2.60!
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Hey Jacob, how's them pre-SAT's coming along?
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