A NEW TWIST

[crazyphil]

Thought I would put a new twist on an old joke.
Youngster at dinner asks Dad what is inflation.
Dad says eat your potato peals and shut up.
Youngster says that's what I thought.

Remember when there used to be 5 and 10 cent stores?
Then they became dollar stores.

Now some of them are going up to a dollar and a half.

Enjoy the ride.

 

[Rudi]

I remember when 15 cent hamburgers went to 19 cents.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I remember when 15 cent hamburgers went to 19 cents.

I remember when:

White Castles were 8 cents each (about 1962)

When mom was a teenager (1945-49) White Castles were 5 cents each, 6 for a Quarter. Coffee was 5 Cents too!

Ivan

 

[martyd]

1966
White Castle Drive-In
Springfield, IL
10 cheese burgers w/grilled onions for a dollar

Granted by today's terminology they would be 'Sliders' but damn they were good.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

1966
White Castle Drive-In
Springfield, IL
10 cheese burgers w/grilled onions for a dollar

Granted by today's terminology they would be 'Sliders' but damn they were good.

White Castle should have pay its customers for cleaning the grease off their grill (yes, I ate them too)

 

[Rustyt1953]

A picture is now worth 436 words.

 

[crazyphil]

Back in the late 1950s I bought a Chic Gaylord holster for about six bucks
plus fifty cents for shipping.
A while back turnerriver found a treasure trove of holsters including the
one shown below and let me have it. It is much like the one I
had in the fiftys.
Talk about inflation, you would have to pry it from my cold dead handsl

 

[GypsmJim]

I remember when Grandpa took me for my very first 15 cent burger. It was awful, nothing like Mom made.

I remember when my Dad gave me my very first shotgun that he paid $8 for. The blue book says its now worth $8000.00.

I remember when I first went into a dollar store and thought Gee, its all ****.

I remember when I got a raise and was now making 100 grand a year. (Now I'm retired on a fixed income)

I remember my first date with that slender blonde. Now she's old and grey. OTOH, SOME things do get better with age.

 

[mrchick]

I remember when a first class letter stamp went from 5¢ to 6¢.

 

[Greyman50]

Have you seen the 5 and below stores?????

 

[Pisgah]

I've never heard a potato peal, let alone eaten one...

 

[Rustyt1953]

I've never heard a potato peal, let alone eaten one...

It rings a bell with me.

 

[Greyman50]

For baking potatoes, Wash using a brush, dry, spray with PAM, sprinkle on salt and sugar. Bake as usual, try the “ peal”, skin, bet you will like it…

 

[Tom Beavert]

I remember when they put a coin slot on the Coke machine at the gas station down the road. You had to put a penny there plus a Nickle in the regular slot to get your 7 oz. coke.
Tom B.

 

[Golddollar]

George Washington could throw a silver dollar across the river because a dollar went a lot farther back then.

 

[LVSteve]

George Washington could throw a silver dollar across the river because a dollar went a lot farther back then.

<<rimshot>>

 

[Alk8944]

I remember when they put a coin slot on the Coke machine at the gas station down the road. You had to put a penny there plus a Nickle in the regular slot to get your 7 oz. coke.
Tom B.

No, they were 6 1/2 oz, not 7! Never was such that I ever saw.

 

[Bekeart]

Prices I remember - put in prospective

Prices I remember - put in prospective

Standard candy bar 5 cents.
Bottle of Coke 5 cents.
Dad's pack of cigs 23 cents
Gallon of gas about 25 cents (varied)

What most have forgotten or overlooked.

My HOURLY WAGE 60 cents.

Bekeart

 

[OLDSTER]

ca. 1967. A Simonson gas station across the street from our Frat house; we'd buy gas for .16 / gal. And next door at King Leos, a whole roasted chicken was .50. Ate lots of greasy chicken.

 

[Greyman50]

Remember going to grocery store in 70, weeks worth for around $5 and cart was half full. Gas “ wars” were nice back then. Worked at an ESSO station, local guy that was a jerk operated the American station across the road. Esso guy would drop his price to $.23/ gal, American would go to $.22, went all the way down to $.17. Knew ESSO owner pretty well as he helped high school kids with their vehicles. He told me the guy that owned the American station charged his mother to tow her car to his station for repair. After Vietnam I came in to see him, got a job offer but had something else lined up. Kept in touch with him until he retired, nice guy

 

[crazyphil]

Remember when you could go to the Saturday movie with Gene Autry,
and buy your ticket and popcorn for two bits?

 

[meaneyedcatz]

Thought I would put a new twist on an old joke.
Youngster at dinner asks Dad what is inflation.
Dad says eat your potato peals and shut up.
Youngster says that's what I thought.

Remember when there used to be 5 and 10 cent stores?
Then they became dollar stores.

Now some of them are going up to a dollar and a half.

Enjoy the ride.

The five and dime stores had everything. The dollar stores nowadays have got nothing but salt water salvaged junk.

 

[grover99]

When I was a young lad back in the 50s I worked at a grocery store and when some one bought $50 worth of food it took three of us boys to haul it all out to their car using three carts that held 6 bags each. Now I can get $50 worth in one plastic bag.

 

[tinkerer]

Used to cost $0.05 to use the restroom at White Castle...
Coke same price from the machine.....
Cigarettes $0.25 a pack - from the machine....
Pump jockeys checked oil, water, air, washed front and rear windshields and pumped gas..
Buck an hour was good money then...

 

[SMSgt]

Back in the early '60s, I lived in S. Miami for my 6th- and 7th-grade years. I was big into slot cars and finagled a job at a slot-car track repairing their rental cars in exchange for free track time. About once a day they'd hand me a dollar and a dime and send me next door to the White Castle to get a bag of burgers for them.

 

[SMSgt]

I remember when they put a coin slot on the Coke machine at the gas station down the road. You had to put a penny there plus a Nickle in the regular slot to get your 7 oz. coke.
Tom B.

I remember the nickel bags of salted peanuts we used to dump into those Cokes.

 

[ironhead7544]

I remember the penny postcard.

I was outraged when soda machines went to $.15 from $.10. A 50% increase!

 

[Rustyt1953]

After they jumped to a dime my mom would wonder why the back of my shirts were dirty.

 

[Rustyt1953]

"Here I sit all broken hearted..."

 

[Tom K]

My wife (who is 72) says that she remembers her grandfather telling her that he just kept getting stronger and stronger as he got older. When he was young it took him several trips to the car to bring in $20 of groceries, but as an old man he could carry that much with one hand.