Double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke---$.67....

Hey, I can remember when it was perfectly reasonable to buy $2- worth of gas. A slice of pizza was 35 cents and a coke was fifteen cents. Ditto a cream cheese and nut on raison bread sandwich, with an orange drink was 50 cents at "Chock Full o'Nuts. Tipping was not permitted.

When I came to Texas from California, in 1957, there was a gas station across the highway from home that still sold cokes for $.06.

My husband tells me when he was in his teens and early 20's you could walk around all day with 50 cents and not spend it all.

A Mars bar was a nickle.

In high school, you could always buy a slice of pizza and a coke for way less than a buck.

A bagel was what? 10 or 12 cents?

Yes, I remember getting a McDonalds hamburger, soda and fries, and change for your dollar.

Phone calls in a pay phone was a dime.

You could buy a Really nice dress for work for $15.00.

Drinks at a bar. Maybe a dollar for a fancy drink, a beer for .75 or .50.

This thread is making me feel all misty and nostalgic.

I remember in my small town where I lived as a youth, movies were 25 cents. I can remember seeing "Psycho" when it was first released. :wink:

Oh yeah! Movies for a quarter!

and Raisinettes for a nickle or dime or something!

Postage in the early 50s: postcard two cents, Ist class mail 3 cents.

http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1958/august_1_1958_120500.html



So it had been 3 cents during my entire childhood.

I thought so, but did not know the statistics.

So it had been 3 cents during my entire childhood. - Phoenix

hehe, Watch, you're letting your age slip! :wink:

Don't forget buying non filter cigarettes from a vending machine. Put in a dollar bill and receive the change taped to the carton.

Yeah yeah yeah.

Sent to the store with fifty cents to buy a loaf of Wonder Bread and a pack of Chesterfield Kings. I got to keep the change. (1953)

My first date in 1960: the movie was 35 cents each, popcorn was a nickel and cokes a dime. She (Janet Tomlinson -older girl in the eighth grade, I was in seventh) ordered a box of Non Pareils !! Eight more cents!

(No wonder I like Chocolatety kisses)


But let's remember that the hourly wage for my first real job (1962)(making donuts all night at Bess Eaton) was a buck fifteen an hour..


Joe(who's zooming who?)Nation

I recall guys bragging about making $125 a week. That's not tall cotton, exactly, even then, but in those days a man could support a family, with wife working only as a desired option, not real necessity.

I have no trouble remembering from the early 60s:

-gasoline was 22 cents a gallon

-first class postage was 3 cents

-a paperback book was 65 cents

Prices have gone up 10 fold in a little over 40 years. Or, to look at it a different way, because of the fools in Washington, the value of the Dollar has gone down 10 fold in a little over 40 years.

I can turn in my notice for early retirement any time now. And we have enough money to live comfortably and modestly, right now. Its thinking about what will happen to the value of the dollar over the next few decades that scares me to death.

That is, unless you think the people running the show in Washington today and tomorrow are so much smarter than our leaders were in the 60s and 70s.

yeah, bag of chips (and it was FULL) was 10 cents; pop was 10 cents; pack of smokes was 35 cents; deluxe theatre - 50 cents...i think stamps were 6 cents then... you could even buy penny candy then - mojos - 2 for 1, licorice babies - 3 for 1, etc...

when i started drinking (underage), you could buy 5 draft or draught beer for a buck, a bottle beer was $1 and a highball was $1.25... I think a mickey was around $2.65...

Gas was 62 cents a gallon at that time (mid 70's)... I know, I pumped it. It wasn't unusual for someone to buy $1.00 worth (although it was kinda cheap - lol)...

remember those velvet paintings with elvis on them? I think they were $6 lol