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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:17 PM Original message |
How much did things cost years ago? |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. In 1958, Moview cause 50 cents except for Wednesdays. |
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Philippine expat (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. Our local theater has a Saturday kids soecial |
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postulater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. Our local theater had a Sat afternoon movie series |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:32 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Coke was a nickel back then, too. In bottles. Ice cold. Real sugar. nt |
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postulater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Real sugar. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 12:25 AM Response to Reply #13 |
26. I know - and they're in bottles! It's sooooo good! nt |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. Around 1950, a quarter would cover going to the movies in |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Neccos! Yeah! The chocolate ones were so goog |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
33. Learned on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" today on NPR that |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
4. In 1967, my friend and I took my mom's car (we were |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 11:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. When I started smoking (about 1956) cigarettes were 20 cents |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 12:25 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Amazing how something that was such a part of the fabric |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 09:39 AM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Keep trying. I lost track of how many times I tried, but then |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 11:24 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. I actually quit once for a year and much to my amazement, |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:42 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Another of the good things -- you can actually sit through a movie |
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Johnny Harpo (330 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
6. Lots Less..But Then Wages Were A Lot Lower Also... |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
8. You can go a decade later and still have CHEAP prices. |
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benld74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
9. High School 70-74 |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
10. 49'er here. But perspective is all: 1957 is to 2011 as 1903 is to 1957. |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
12. My parents bought a brand-new house |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
14. When I started driving in 1970, gas was a quarter a gallon |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 12:23 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. I could fill up my egg shaped Volvo for $2.12 |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. My first brand new car was a 1974 Ford Maverick, it cost |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. In 1960, the house my parents bought cost what my dad made in one year. |
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OffWithTheirHeads (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
17. I stopped buying potato chips when they went from .05 to .07 |
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deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 10:43 PM Response to Original message |
18. The real problem was getting a quarter. |
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some guy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
19. some things cost more then. |
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PATRICK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-08-11 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
20. There was sort of an understood |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
22. When I was in college, minimum wage was $1.25 |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 12:24 AM Response to Original message |
24. Just go back about 10 years ... every $1 you had pre W Bush is now worth 50 cents -- !! |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 09:52 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Where did you get that made up number? |
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Lugnut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
27. Our brand new house cost $15,000 in 1966. |
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Mendocino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 01:08 AM Response to Original message |
28. Dad bought a new Pontiac |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-09-11 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
34. A $12,220.00 house in '57 would cost just under $100k today. Adjusted for inflation. |
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