The way it was
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islandguy
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Me too. And, in my case, $0.05 Cdn. It only cost $0.02 to send a letter across the country then too. Boy, am I getting old. LOL
Grayfox
US Veteran
I remember running around with my Grandfather. He'd stop at the general store buy a nickle's worth each of bologna, cheese, crackers and 2 cold cokes. A filling lunch cost all of 25 cents. 
Nowadays the art.....
Nowadays the art would be totally un-PC. Stereotypical hillbillies involved in moonshining, and one even has a GUN!
I loved original Mountain Dew. I remember splitting a bottle four ways and I got to drink down to the cloud.
Nowadays the art would be totally un-PC. Stereotypical hillbillies involved in moonshining, and one even has a GUN!
I loved original Mountain Dew. I remember splitting a bottle four ways and I got to drink down to the cloud.
mstem
Member
For me the small bottles of Coke were 6 cents, The 12 oz. bottles were a dime.
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TomkinsSP
Member
THREE rifles on a sign for soda pop!
chaparrito
Member
If the cost of soda impacts one's budget, something is desperately wrong.
I only drink about 3 sodas a year. A 16oz icy cold glass bottled Mexican Coke made with sugar and not high fructose corn syrup goes down in about three big gulps on a hot AZ day. The cost is irrelevant.
I only drink about 3 sodas a year. A 16oz icy cold glass bottled Mexican Coke made with sugar and not high fructose corn syrup goes down in about three big gulps on a hot AZ day. The cost is irrelevant.
Chek soda at Winn Dixie and others is reintroducing 4 or 5 flavors made with cane sugar.
Joe's has offerings including green apple and a killer crème soda all made with cane.
Paradise Road's pic of Abe's Gas made me recall my first phone number.
Started National 1 and was a party line.
Joe's has offerings including green apple and a killer crème soda all made with cane.
Paradise Road's pic of Abe's Gas made me recall my first phone number.
Started National 1 and was a party line.
Alpo
Member
Cheapest I recall McDonalds, they had something they called an All American. Hamburger, fries and a triple-thick shake, for 50 cents.
I do remember, after church SOME SUNDAYS, Daddy'd drive over to McDonalds and get 6 hamburgers and 3 sacks of fries. Man, did that sack smell good on the way home. There were five of us, so Daddy got two burgers. Mama would open up one of the wax papers a burger came in, and put it in the middle of the table. Dumped two of the fries on it - we three boys fought over these (I say "fought" jokingly. If any of us had actually fought at the table, he and Daddy would go to the bedroom and play "elbows on the bed" with the razor strop). Another wax paper and the last sack of fries, and she and Daddy shared them.
When I was in college, in the early 70s, I was in the kitchen down at Daddy's lodge, and noticed they had one of them old coke machines. No choice, push the handle down and you got a Coke. And it cost a nickel. Wonder if the lodge subsidized that, 'cause even back then them 6 1/2 ounce cokes cost more than a nickel off the truck. Ever time somebody bought one they lost money.
I do remember, after church SOME SUNDAYS, Daddy'd drive over to McDonalds and get 6 hamburgers and 3 sacks of fries. Man, did that sack smell good on the way home. There were five of us, so Daddy got two burgers. Mama would open up one of the wax papers a burger came in, and put it in the middle of the table. Dumped two of the fries on it - we three boys fought over these (I say "fought" jokingly. If any of us had actually fought at the table, he and Daddy would go to the bedroom and play "elbows on the bed" with the razor strop). Another wax paper and the last sack of fries, and she and Daddy shared them.
When I was in college, in the early 70s, I was in the kitchen down at Daddy's lodge, and noticed they had one of them old coke machines. No choice, push the handle down and you got a Coke. And it cost a nickel. Wonder if the lodge subsidized that, 'cause even back then them 6 1/2 ounce cokes cost more than a nickel off the truck. Ever time somebody bought one they lost money.
Jack's Hamburgers......
o/' Jack's hamburgers for fifteen cents are so good, good, good. o/'
I think Hardee's beat McDonalds here. When the McDonald's got here, golden arches and all, it was such a novelty that we toured the place in Boy Scouts. Pretty sure we got a burger and fries out of it.
Whoever was here, 15 cents was a standard....for a while. Then we learned about an economic term called 'inflation'
o/' Jack's hamburgers for fifteen cents are so good, good, good. o/'
I think Hardee's beat McDonalds here. When the McDonald's got here, golden arches and all, it was such a novelty that we toured the place in Boy Scouts. Pretty sure we got a burger and fries out of it.
Whoever was here, 15 cents was a standard....for a while. Then we learned about an economic term called 'inflation'
fiasconva
US Veteran
Remember gas wars? Back in the late 60's and early 70's they would start and you could get gas for about a quarter a gallon until they ended them.
Chubbo
Member
Hamburgers
I remember "White Castle" hamburgers in Columbus, Ohio, around 1935, selling at four cents each. The next door neighbor man, and my Dad, would drive about ten miles to Cols. OH, from our little town every couple of weeks to buy a sack full of "White Castle hamburgers". as a treat, for the five of us, in our families, figuring 5 burgers, each, at four cents each, the five of us could feast on the sack full of thirty burgers for eighty cents. Many years later in 1974, when our electrician's motorcycle club rode our motorcycles from Ohio, to Daytona, Florida, each year for the Daytona 500 race, we found an exact burger called "Kristal Burgers". By that time the prices for them, had gone up to fifteen cents. Those were good old days!
Chubbo
I remember "White Castle" hamburgers in Columbus, Ohio, around 1935, selling at four cents each. The next door neighbor man, and my Dad, would drive about ten miles to Cols. OH, from our little town every couple of weeks to buy a sack full of "White Castle hamburgers". as a treat, for the five of us, in our families, figuring 5 burgers, each, at four cents each, the five of us could feast on the sack full of thirty burgers for eighty cents. Many years later in 1974, when our electrician's motorcycle club rode our motorcycles from Ohio, to Daytona, Florida, each year for the Daytona 500 race, we found an exact burger called "Kristal Burgers". By that time the prices for them, had gone up to fifteen cents. Those were good old days!
Chubbo
Boox
Member
I remember buying cigarettes from a vending machine for a quarter and getting 2 pennies in the cellophane as change. Haven't seen a cigarette vending machine in years.
Boox
Boox
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Nowadays the art would be totally un-PC. Stereotypical hillbillies involved in moonshining, and one even has a GUN!
I loved original Mountain Dew. I remember splitting a bottle four ways and I got to drink down to the cloud.
I'm not sure who owned what, but before I ever saw a Mountain Dew, there was Kickapoo Joy Juice, named after the mythical concoction made by Hairless Joe and his Indian sidekick Lonesome Polecat in the "Little Abner" comic strip.
I didn't care for either of them.
I remember getting a pack of Camels out of a machine they were 20 cents and you got back 4 cents in the pack.
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Fishslayer
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
I had a little wagon I pulled around the alleys of Manhattan Beach when I was a kid. IIRC small bottles were 3 cents, big bottles were a nickel... Playboys... Priceless!
It is actually "Krystal" and they are still around today. In fact, I got lunch from there on Sunday after church. The regular burger is now 79 cents.
https://krystal.com/menu/
Was one of those coke machines with the glass door you opened up at the Phillips 66 station my dad was a mechanic at when I was a small lad. We lived within walking distance and I can remember watching for him and hoping he had brought me a bottle of Kayo. That stuff was the nectar of the gods to a 4 year old.
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