"Barry" > wrote in message ...
> That's what the old folks say...
>
> I remember, when bread was... well.. actually I don't remember what bread
> costs, I never bought any as a child.
>
> I do remember penny candy.
> A dollar! could get you a nice size sack of hard and chewy candy.
>
> I remember gasoline was 25 cents a gallon!
>
> Marlboro cigs where 50 cents, Watermelon flavored bubble gum was 25 cents.
>

Yep, me too. Bread was 49 cents a loaf when cigs were 50 cents.

We had a penny candy place in our Baltimore City neighborhood
called "The White House." It was 1964-1966. Richmond and
Baltimore were probably a lot alike 1960-1975 or so.