On 9/20/2018 9:03 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:

> It was probably less than that in my childhood. I remember buying moms
> cigarettes for 30 cents or less, and later, when I was old enough to
> drive, gasoline was about 25 cents.
>
> That's how life was then, and I didn't have a problem with it, and I
> still don't today.
>
> We were never forced to eat anything, but if we didn't want the food we
> could walk away. Sometimes, if I wasn't very hungry, I would only eat
> till I was full. We were never punished for that.
>
>
In the mid fifties, My mother used to send me to a store a block way
that had a machine for cigarettes. You put a quarter in the machine and
the cigarette pack had two pennies on the side, under the cellophane.

They also had penny candy. Bread was about a quarter too.