I was at the local pub. And people were discussing age, the bartender asked my friend how old he was, I sprayed beer pretty much everywhere after hearing his answer. (he's actualy 85) "I'm old enough to remember when tennis balls were white. Cokes were a nickel. And if you were wearing earrings you damned well better be either a girl or a pirate."
How old are ya?
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jlrhiner
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Gas was .19 cents a gal. WhiteCastles were a .10 cents each. You could buy a coke for .20 cents.
Coke & Pepsi was 5 cents. Gas was 25 cents a gallon & my model A Ford pickup cost 55 bucks. Car license was 7 bucks a year. And this was in Calif. in 1948.
Cigarettes were $.25 a pack, gasoline $.25 a gallon, girls wore dress's to school, boys wore slacks and kept their shirt tails tucked in. After school jobs paid about $1.00 per hour. Military service started at about $96.00 per month ( 1966 ). I had an "I like Ike" button. The Beatles were a neatly dressed and groomed British singing group. Hoppy, Gene and Roy were popular as was the Lone Ranger. If you had a telephone it had a dial and possibly a party line.
Uncle Milty, Burns and Allen, Red Skelton, what was not to love.
The 1950's were a great time to be a child.
LTC
Uncle Milty, Burns and Allen, Red Skelton, what was not to love.
The 1950's were a great time to be a child.
LTC
Wow! We got a bunch of youngsters on here!.
Bread was $10 per loaf. Ice was $.15 for a HUGE chunk for the ice box, Cigarettes were a dime. All soda pop was in an ICE cooled box. Bottle tops made excellent checkers for the bench outside the country store. You could make a meal with an RC Cola and a gingerbread Stageplank. After school work paid the handsome sum of $.16 per hour and was GLAD to get that. Picked cotton for $.15 for 100 pounds...to help you understand how much it takes to get to 100...imagine the little J&J cotton balls your wife uses with her make-up.
Overalls and flour sack shirts were the dress of the day. Fishing, hunting and having good CLEAN fun were the thing of the time....no drugs or other problems.
Shoes....NO in summer....Yes in winter.
Times were TOUGH growing up in the 1930's and 40's.
I would not swap it for ANYTHING I see around me today.
We had WORK ethic, PRIDE and COMPASSION for our friends and neighbors.
Bread was $10 per loaf. Ice was $.15 for a HUGE chunk for the ice box, Cigarettes were a dime. All soda pop was in an ICE cooled box. Bottle tops made excellent checkers for the bench outside the country store. You could make a meal with an RC Cola and a gingerbread Stageplank. After school work paid the handsome sum of $.16 per hour and was GLAD to get that. Picked cotton for $.15 for 100 pounds...to help you understand how much it takes to get to 100...imagine the little J&J cotton balls your wife uses with her make-up.
Overalls and flour sack shirts were the dress of the day. Fishing, hunting and having good CLEAN fun were the thing of the time....no drugs or other problems.
Shoes....NO in summer....Yes in winter.
Times were TOUGH growing up in the 1930's and 40's.
I would not swap it for ANYTHING I see around me today.
We had WORK ethic, PRIDE and COMPASSION for our friends and neighbors.
michael thornton
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moma would send me to get a gal with a gal can and it wouldnt hold 50 cents dont remember what it was a gal, 50 cents worth of gas wouldnt even start my lawnmower now!
Ogandydancer
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We could go the the movie on Saturday for 25 cents, admission was 9 cents you could get a candy bar a box of popcorn and a coke for the other 15 cents and have a penny left over. You would see 2 full length features 2 serials and 3 cartoons. First job I had was with Western Union peddling telegrams $2.25 per hour and worked 20 hours per week and got 25 cents bike allowance.
ancient-one
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While going to my last two years of high school I worked in a service(yes, you actually checked oil, tire pressure and washed car windows) station from 12-15 hours a day for $1.00. Gas tanks had the glass top and were filled with the hand pump. The year after I got out of high school we moved and I worked in another station for the same money and there had to deliver gas and kerosene to farmers. The bad part about that was they had elevated tanks and you had to climb ladders as you filled their tanks with 5 gal. buckets.
Gas was 10.5 cents for bronze(reg) and 11 cents for ethyl at the first station. Tom's candy was 5 cents and iced down pop was 5 cents. Now you know why I log on as ancient-one.
Gas was 10.5 cents for bronze(reg) and 11 cents for ethyl at the first station. Tom's candy was 5 cents and iced down pop was 5 cents. Now you know why I log on as ancient-one.
RIDE-RED 350r
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Apparently I a youngun of sorts.. Just had my 34th birthday 2 days ago... When I first became aware of prices of things in the mid eighties, the main thing I remember was gasoline.. Mom and Dad wouldn't buy at a station that charged more than $0.85 per gallon...And they threw a royal fit when it became the norm to see a whopping $0.90 per gallon!
I remember pitching a fit when name brand smokes hit $1.65 a pack..
I remember when my Grandfather spent more than $20k on a brand new full size 4x4 Chevy truck for the first time... 1988...Now you can hardly buy a good used 4x4 for that.....
Time just keeps going faster...
I remember pitching a fit when name brand smokes hit $1.65 a pack..
I remember when my Grandfather spent more than $20k on a brand new full size 4x4 Chevy truck for the first time... 1988...Now you can hardly buy a good used 4x4 for that.....
Time just keeps going faster...
Damn Yankee
Member
Nobody has said anything about walking 5 miles to school,
Uphill both ways.
Uphill both ways.
jlrhiner
US Veteran
In the snow.
DWFAN
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Comic books were 10 cents and we put baseball trading cards on our bicycles to make them sound like they had engines. 50 cents got you a double feature with popcorn and a large soda, newsreel and cartoons included. TV was black and white with three channels and you had to actually get up to change them.
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It used to make me feel old whenever I tried to explain what 8-tracks were. I don't feel so old now. Thanks, guys! 
sipowicz
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I'm so old, I bought most of the items Gizamo posts when they were new.
Rubbers were two dimes in the machine......
Don't ask how I know...........
I remember galoshes at a dollar a piece.
DeathGrip
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Boys that played with dolls were sissies,Then came GI Joe. I didn't like GI Joe.
Home grown Spider bikes and a Rupp mini bike with a 3 horse Briggs.
Then came Kick *** Rock and Roll, Girls Guitars and Cars.
Yep. Life in the '60s and '70s sucked.
But at least I knew right from wrong.
Home grown Spider bikes and a Rupp mini bike with a 3 horse Briggs.
Then came Kick *** Rock and Roll, Girls Guitars and Cars.
Yep. Life in the '60s and '70s sucked.
But at least I knew right from wrong.
