Barry wrote:
> 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.
>
> Barry
>
> 45 Records were 1.00
>
> Download singles are still... 1.00
>
> What a rip off music has been.

I remember much lower prices... Saturday matinaee; double feature, 25
cartoons, lots of serieals- Flash Gorden, Three Tons of Fun, Stooges,
Westside Kids, etc, Newsreels... all for 14 cents... and there were
matrons too.


Potatoes 3 cents/lb
Soup Greens, free!
Nickel candy bars were twice as big as today... Threee mustketeers was
three times as big, was actually scored to break off three sections.
A big box of Good N' Plenty was enough for a real food fight... pea
shooters in the balcony!

Of course wages sucked... even medical doctors were doing really great
at $5,000/yr., and house calls were manditory... a house call was $3,
if there was an injection another $1. Medical insurance wasn't
invented yet... lots of medical proceedures were pro bono. I had my
appendectomy for free... was my tenth birthday present, a week in the
hospital, best part of of all was the spinal, like a baseball bat
WOPped in my back, but I still can remmber the nurse that held me, my
face tight in her huge cleavage... I couldn't move and didn't want to.

Sheldon

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.

Barry

45 Records were 1.00

Download singles are still... 1.00

What a rip off music has been.

Barry wrote:
> 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.
>
> Barry
>
> 45 Records were 1.00
>
> Download singles are still... 1.00
>
> What a rip off music has been.
-------------------

When I was a kid in the mid 50's my parents owned a grocery store.

a loaf of bread was 15 cents
Rice Krispies were 15 cents a box
a large candy bar was a nickel
most penny candy was 3, 4 or 5 for a penny
so 5 cents would get you a small sackful
a bar of soap was a nickel
a can of Campbell's soup was 15 cents
potatoes were 3 cents a pound and when there was a bad crop
and they went to 5 cents, many people stopped buying them
cigarettes were 25 cents
a package of gum was 5 cents
a half pint of milk at school was 2 cents a day
a well-balanced school lunch was 25 cents

The Vietnam War caused our first major inflation. Wait'll you see what
the war in Iraq does.

gloria p

In article >, Barry > wrote:

> 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.
>
> Barry
>
> 45 Records were 1.00
>
> Download singles are still... 1.00
>
> What a rip off music has been.

Yeah, you right! I remember buying LP records back in the 50's for about
4 to 5 dollars a pop. That was quite a bit of money for a kid back then.
As for nickels, I remember buying candy bars and Cokes for a nickel.
That would be back in the 40's. Popcorn at the movies was 10 cents.
Admission for under 12 y.o. was 17 cents. So popcorn was kind of a rip
even back then. Comic books were 10 cents, paperbacks were 25 cents;
hell of a buy!

Feeling old-
D.M.

"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.


Candy bar was 5¢
Bread, 25¢
Gas 19.9 was the lowest I recall, about 1962
Cigarettes; in a machine, you put in a quarter and there were two pennies
change in the cellophane wrapper

Ground beef varied with quality from 29¢ to 59¢

"Sheldon" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Barry wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>> 45 Records were 1.00
>>
>> Download singles are still... 1.00
>>
>> What a rip off music has been.
>
> I remember much lower prices... Saturday matinaee; double feature, 25
> cartoons, lots of serieals- Flash Gorden, Three Tons of Fun, Stooges,
> Westside Kids, etc, Newsreels... all for 14 cents... and there were
> matrons too.
>
>
> Potatoes 3 cents/lb
> Soup Greens, free!
snip
> Sheldon
>Soup bones were free. Bargain produce on Saturdays because all stores were
>closed on Sunday. Ground beef at 25 cents a pound. Campbell soups 19
>cents a can.
Janet

"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.

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:53:19 -0500, Barry > wrote:

>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.
>
>Barry
>
>45 Records were 1.00
>
>Download singles are still... 1.00
>
>What a rip off music has been.

I guess I'm a child of the 60's, having been born in 1960 <g> My
memory sucks though. I do remember penny candy. I think candy bars
were about 10c when I was a kid. You got your gas tank filled by a
proper attendant AND received a grape jelly glass and green stamps :-)
Mom's specialties (why I learned to cook!) were goop and tuna
bumsteads. Bewitched and Gilligan's Island were my favorite tv shows.
My favorite lunch was grilled cheese (Wonder Bread and either Velveeta
or Kraft singles) and Campbell's tomato soup. We didn't have air
conditioning in the house and somehow we survived (utterly
inconceivable at this point in my life).

Life was good. I was blessed with loving parents. And a PITA sister
;-)

TammyM

"TammyM" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:53:19 -0500, Barry > wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>Barry
>>
>>45 Records were 1.00
>>
>>Download singles are still... 1.00
>>
>>What a rip off music has been.
>
> I guess I'm a child of the 60's, having been born in 1960 <g> My
> memory sucks though. I do remember penny candy. I think candy bars
> were about 10c when I was a kid. You got your gas tank filled by a
> proper attendant AND received a grape jelly glass and green stamps :-)
> Mom's specialties (why I learned to cook!) were goop and tuna
> bumsteads. Bewitched and Gilligan's Island were my favorite tv shows.
> My favorite lunch was grilled cheese (Wonder Bread and either Velveeta
> or Kraft singles) and Campbell's tomato soup. We didn't have air
> conditioning in the house and somehow we survived (utterly
> inconceivable at this point in my life).
>
> Life was good. I was blessed with loving parents. And a PITA sister
> ;-)
>

You're a year younger than I am and we had the same kind of parents and
sister!



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"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
et...
>
> "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.
>
>
> Candy bar was 5¢
> Bread, 25¢
> Gas 19.9 was the lowest I recall, about 1962
> Cigarettes; in a machine, you put in a quarter and there were two pennies
> change in the cellophane wrapper
>
> Ground beef varied with quality from 29¢ to 59¢
>
You're a little bit older than me, Edwin. It's neat to recall stuff like
this.

35-cent Saturday Matinees in theaters with real vaudeville curtains and
stages! (About 1966-1970 Baltimore.)

Puester wrote:

> When I was a kid in the mid 50's my parents owned a grocery store.
>
> a loaf of bread was 15 cents
> Rice Krispies were 15 cents a box
> a large candy bar was a nickel
> most penny candy was 3, 4 or 5 for a penny
> so 5 cents would get you a small sackful
> a bar of soap was a nickel
> a can of Campbell's soup was 15 cents
> potatoes were 3 cents a pound and when there was a bad crop
> and they went to 5 cents, many people stopped buying them
> cigarettes were 25 cents
> a package of gum was 5 cents
> a half pint of milk at school was 2 cents a day
> a well-balanced school lunch was 25 cents


Multiply those prices by a factor of around 7 for inflation purposes,
and some of those items are roughly the same price today (at least on
sale) 'Cept for cigs, which are around seven bux a pack today (in
Chicawgo at least)...movie admissions have also really shot up.
School milk and lunches were and are subsidised or even free for those
that qualify.



> The Vietnam War caused our first major inflation. Wait'll you see what
> the war in Iraq does.


The biggest surge in inflation was right after the end of WWII, very
few goods and huge amounts of money floating around. The price of
things that weren't price - controlled during WWII, e.g. real estate,
luxury goods, surged greatly during the war...

--
Best
Greg

Donald Martinich wrote:

> In article >, Barry > wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > Barry
>
> > 45 Records were 1.00
>
> > Download singles are still... 1.00
>
> > What a rip off music has been.
>
> Yeah, you right! I remember buying LP records back in the 50's for about
> 4 to 5 dollars a pop. That was quite a bit of money for a kid back then.


Quite a lot of money for anyone, adjusted for inflation in today's
dollars that's around $30.00+ for an LP. When stereo came out in late
'57 - early '58 there was a dollar surcharge for stereo discs.
Looking at it now we wonder, "Why the big deal about the extra dollar,
why wasn't everything in stereo?". But we forget that that extra buck
in late 50's dollars is now the equivalent of $6.00 - $7.00, a lot of
money for a lot of folks back then considering that in real terms
average buying power/income is about twice what it was back then...

If you were rich you could afford a reel - to - reel tape recorder and
pre - recorded stereo tapes, the first such tapes (released by RCA in
1955) cost $14.99, or a cool hundred bux in today's money...

So music - wise at least things have gotten a bit cheaper...and all
electronics items have.

--
Best
Greg

cyberSQUAT wrote:


> "Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>
> et...
>
>
>
>
>
> > "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.
>
> > Candy bar was 5¢
> > Bread, 25¢
> > Gas 19.9 was the lowest I recall, about 1962
> > Cigarettes; in a machine, you put in a quarter and there were two pennies
> > change in the cellophane wrapper
>
> > Ground beef varied with quality from 29¢ to 59¢
>
> You're a little bit older than me, Edwin. It's neat to recall stuff like
> this.
>
> 35-cent Saturday Matinees in theaters with real vaudeville curtains and
> stages! (About 1966-1970 Baltimore.)-


Those jigaboo thee - aters with rats running up the aisles and pimps
and hookers and maryjane all over the place...???

--
Best
Greg

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:53:19 -0500, Barry > wrote:

>I remember gasoline was 25 cents a gallon!

The lowest I ever bought gas was a self serve station near the
University of Arizona in 1967. 19.9 cents for regular... if you wanted
"ethyl" you had to fork over 21.9.

--
Zilbandy

Zilbandy wrote:
> Barry wrote:
> >I remember gasoline was 25 cents a gallon!
>
> The lowest I ever bought gas was a self serve station near the
> University of Arizona in 1967. 19.9 cents for regular... if you wanted
> "ethyl" you had to fork over 21.9.

In S. CA in 1n 1964 regular gas was 9.9 cents (don't think there was
unleaded back then), the attendant pumped your gas, checked your oil,
tire pressure, and washed your windows, and you got plaid stamps.
There were gas stations on every corner and so there were price wars,
and each gave some kind of token gift, glasses and steak knives were
popular.

Der Wienerschnitzel was 18 cents, condiments were extra.

Sheldon

Barry wrote:
>
> 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.

Cigarettes were that much? As late as 1965 they were 35 cents here.

We could buy for 8 cents for small bottle or 10 for the larger size. The 26
oz bottles were 29 cents.
Chocolate bars were 5 cents for small , 10 cents for regular and 25 cents
for the huge bars.
There was a tremendous variety of penny candy, usually 2 or 3 for a penny.

In 1968 when I could get away with sneaking into a bar underage a draft
beer was 15 cents and a bottle was 30.

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:03:35 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>
>Barry wrote:

>> Marlboro cigs where 50 cents, Watermelon flavored bubble gum was 25 cents.
>
>Cigarettes were that much? As late as 1965 they were 35 cents here.

40 cents in chicago in the early 70's. And if you said you were old
enough they'd sell them to you. I started buying them at 12.

>In 1968 when I could get away with sneaking into a bar underage a draft
>beer was 15 cents and a bottle was 30.

In the mid 70's there was a place around here called "The Nickel Bag."
Draft beers were 5 cents. Everyone bought them 10 at a time. That
was before we knew drinking and driving was dangerous.

Lou

Zilbandy wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:53:19 -0500, Barry > wrote:
>
>> I remember gasoline was 25 cents a gallon!
>
> The lowest I ever bought gas was a self serve station near the
> University of Arizona in 1967. 19.9 cents for regular... if you wanted
> "ethyl" you had to fork over 21.9.
>


The Merritt Parkway in central Connecticut used to be grossly
overpopulated with gas stations and they frequently had price wars in
the early 60's. We bought gas there for as little as 17.9 during one such.

gloria p

Sheldon wrote:

>
> Der Wienerschnitzel was 18 cents, condiments were extra.
>
> Sheldon
>

The first McDonald's I ever saw, in Hartford, CT ~1966, served:
hamburgers $.15 cheeseburgers $.17
Coke $.10 French fries, tiny bag, $.05

My salary, as a newly hired social worker, was the princely sum of $125
a week and my husband was an engineer for a NASA contractor, earning
$690 a month. We paid (gasp!) an outrageous $135 a month for a large
one-bedroom garden apartment in a new complex with a pool. (In contrast
one of my welfare clients with 8 kids lived in a two bedroom apartment
in the ghetto at $35 a week.)

We owned a '66 Pontiac LeMans convertible ($2500) and a 67 VW beetle
($1800).

We used to go out to dinner with college friends to Valle's Steak House
on an occasional Friday night where twin lobster dinners (per person)
were $4.95 and a glass of wine was a buck.

Life was good.

gloria p

On Mar 14, 6:19 pm, "Sheldon" > wrote:
> I remember much lower prices... Saturday matinaee; double feature, 25
> cartoons, lots of serieals- Flash Gorden, Three Tons of Fun, Stooges,
> Westside Kids, etc, Newsreels... all for 14 cents... and there were
> matrons too.
>
> Potatoes 3 cents/lb
> Soup Greens, free!

Suet for minced meat pies was free, too!

Karen

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:27:06 GMT, Puester >
wrote:

>Barry wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>> 45 Records were 1.00
>>
>> Download singles are still... 1.00
>>
>> What a rip off music has been.
>-------------------
>
>When I was a kid in the mid 50's my parents owned a grocery store.
>
>a loaf of bread was 15 cents
>Rice Krispies were 15 cents a box
>a large candy bar was a nickel
>most penny candy was 3, 4 or 5 for a penny
> so 5 cents would get you a small sackful
>a bar of soap was a nickel
>a can of Campbell's soup was 15 cents
>potatoes were 3 cents a pound and when there was a bad crop
> and they went to 5 cents, many people stopped buying them
>cigarettes were 25 cents
>a package of gum was 5 cents
>a half pint of milk at school was 2 cents a day
>a well-balanced school lunch was 25 cents
>
>The Vietnam War caused our first major inflation. Wait'll you see what
>the war in Iraq does.
>
>gloria p

Michael Pollan wrote somewhere that Americans (on average) spent 25%
of their income on food in the immediate post WWII period. Now it
averages somewhere around 10% of the typical American income.
--

modom

http://www.koyote.com/users/modom/home.html

On Mar 15, 11:19 am, "modom (palindrome guy)" <moc.etoyok@modom>
wrote:
> Michael Pollan wrote somewhere that Americans (on average) spent 25%
> of their income on food in the immediate post WWII period. Now it
> averages somewhere around 10% of the typical American income.

There sure was no monthly cell phone bill, internet service provider
bill, cable tv bill, blackberry fee, etc.

I wonder how many people belonged to a gym, or had regular visits to
the manicurist, or gardening service, etc., too?

Some of these types of luxuries were for the few.

Karen

On 15 Mar 2007 00:44:35 -0700, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:

>Puester wrote:
>
>> When I was a kid in the mid 50's my parents owned a grocery store.
>>
>> a loaf of bread was 15 cents
>> Rice Krispies were 15 cents a box
>> a large candy bar was a nickel
>> most penny candy was 3, 4 or 5 for a penny
>> so 5 cents would get you a small sackful
>> a bar of soap was a nickel
>> a can of Campbell's soup was 15 cents
>> potatoes were 3 cents a pound and when there was a bad crop
>> and they went to 5 cents, many people stopped buying them
>> cigarettes were 25 cents
>> a package of gum was 5 cents
>> a half pint of milk at school was 2 cents a day
>> a well-balanced school lunch was 25 cents
>
>
>Multiply those prices by a factor of around 7 for inflation purposes,
>and some of those items are roughly the same price today (at least on
>sale) 'Cept for cigs, which are around seven bux a pack today (in
>Chicawgo at least)...

seven bucks? that's brutal. slightly less than five in maryland
(suburban d.c.). do you have butt smugglers like in new york?

your pal,
blake

blake murphy said...

> On 15 Mar 2007 00:44:35 -0700, "Gregory Morrow"
> > wrote:
>
>>Puester wrote:
>>
>>> When I was a kid in the mid 50's my parents owned a grocery store.
>>>
>>> a loaf of bread was 15 cents
>>> Rice Krispies were 15 cents a box
>>> a large candy bar was a nickel
>>> most penny candy was 3, 4 or 5 for a penny
>>> so 5 cents would get you a small sackful
>>> a bar of soap was a nickel
>>> a can of Campbell's soup was 15 cents
>>> potatoes were 3 cents a pound and when there was a bad crop
>>> and they went to 5 cents, many people stopped buying them
>>> cigarettes were 25 cents
>>> a package of gum was 5 cents
>>> a half pint of milk at school was 2 cents a day
>>> a well-balanced school lunch was 25 cents
>>
>>
>>Multiply those prices by a factor of around 7 for inflation purposes,
>>and some of those items are roughly the same price today (at least on
>>sale) 'Cept for cigs, which are around seven bux a pack today (in
>>Chicawgo at least)...
>
> seven bucks? that's brutal. slightly less than five in maryland
> (suburban d.c.). do you have butt smugglers like in new york?
>
> your pal,
> blake


I quit smoking the day cigs cost $4.00 a pack (Sept. 1, 2004, 10am). Call
it a cost of living bonus. I never looked back.

Now about my SweetTart habit...

Andy

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:03:35 -0400, Dave Smith >
wrote:

>
>> I remember gasoline was 25 cents a gallon!
>>
>> Marlboro cigs where 50 cents, Watermelon flavored bubble gum was 25 cents.
>
>Cigarettes were that much? As late as 1965 they were 35 cents here.
>


Dime a pack at the sea-store

<rj>

On 15 Mar 2007 11:42:29 -0700, "Karen" > wrote:

>On Mar 15, 11:19 am, "modom (palindrome guy)" <moc.etoyok@modom>
>wrote:
>> Michael Pollan wrote somewhere that Americans (on average) spent 25%
>> of their income on food in the immediate post WWII period. Now it
>> averages somewhere around 10% of the typical American income.
>
>There sure was no monthly cell phone bill, internet service provider
>bill, cable tv bill, blackberry fee, etc.
>
>I wonder how many people belonged to a gym, or had regular visits to
>the manicurist, or gardening service, etc., too?
>
>Some of these types of luxuries were for the few.
>
Good observations all. But in fact Pollan urges Americans to spend
more on their food as a percentage of their income. He argues cheap
food is largely price-manipulated, pseudo food. Gaining a price point
or two at the supermarket might be nice, but homemade soup with real
veg and chicken in it is more healthy than Cup-a-Noodles for lunch. I
tend to see his point.
--

modom

http://www.koyote.com/users/modom/home.html

On Mar 15, 8:27 pm, "modom (palindrome guy)" <moc.etoyok@modom> wrote:

> modom
>
> http://www.koyote.com/users/modom/home.html

uh... that's not art.. that's a bunch a feelings on some medium

What are you doing? do people buy your work?

and what is it with you and fat women?

just kidding mo

look...

What pics I could see... I do see the energy you chose to reveal in
the work.
Nice Job.

Barry

In article . com>,
says...
> Barry wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > 45 Records were 1.00
> >
> > Download singles are still... 1.00
> >
> > What a rip off music has been.
>
> I remember much lower prices... Saturday matinaee; double feature, 25
> cartoons, lots of serieals- Flash Gorden, Three Tons of Fun, Stooges,
> Westside Kids, etc, Newsreels... all for 14 cents... and there were
> matrons too.
>
>
> Potatoes 3 cents/lb
> Soup Greens, free!
> Nickel candy bars were twice as big as today... Threee mustketeers was
> three times as big, was actually scored to break off three sections.
> A big box of Good N' Plenty was enough for a real food fight... pea
> shooters in the balcony!
>
> Of course wages sucked... even medical doctors were doing really great
> at $5,000/yr., and house calls were manditory... a house call was $3,
> if there was an injection another $1. Medical insurance wasn't
> invented yet... lots of medical proceedures were pro bono. I had my
> appendectomy for free... was my tenth birthday present, a week in the
> hospital, best part of of all was the spinal, like a baseball bat
> WOPped in my back, but I still can remmber the nurse that held me, my
> face tight in her huge cleavage... I couldn't move and didn't want to.
>
> Sheldon
>
>

How primitive! I can't imagine a spinal for an appendectomy. Then again,
I'm of the modern age where chemistry rules supreme.

The only surgery I've ever had was removal of my tonsils and adenoids
and they used gas for that.

Then through the years dentistry using laughing gas fell out and
novo/lido was in. Then for the major stuff there were the benzo drips,
heaven!

In article >,
says...
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:53:19 -0500, Barry > wrote:
>
> >I remember gasoline was 25 cents a gallon!
>
> The lowest I ever bought gas was a self serve station near the
> University of Arizona in 1967. 19.9 cents for regular... if you wanted
> "ethyl" you had to fork over 21.9.
>
>

You're making me so jealous. Cheapest gas I ever got was when I was 16
and then was in 1980! The cost per gallon? 69 cents.

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:59:32 -0400, T >
wrote:


>How primitive! I can't imagine a spinal for an appendectomy. Then again,
>I'm of the modern age where chemistry rules supreme.
>
It isn;t primitive at all. My last hip surgery, I had spinal
anesthesia. I requested it, as I am way more comfortable with that
than general anesthesia. And it is fairly common.

Christine

In article >,
says...
> Sheldon wrote:
>
> >
> > Der Wienerschnitzel was 18 cents, condiments were extra.
> >
> > Sheldon
> >
>
> The first McDonald's I ever saw, in Hartford, CT ~1966, served:
> hamburgers $.15 cheeseburgers $.17
> Coke $.10 French fries, tiny bag, $.05
>
> My salary, as a newly hired social worker, was the princely sum of $125
> a week and my husband was an engineer for a NASA contractor, earning
> $690 a month. We paid (gasp!) an outrageous $135 a month for a large
> one-bedroom garden apartment in a new complex with a pool. (In contrast
> one of my welfare clients with 8 kids lived in a two bedroom apartment
> in the ghetto at $35 a week.)
>
> We owned a '66 Pontiac LeMans convertible ($2500) and a 67 VW beetle
> ($1800).
>
> We used to go out to dinner with college friends to Valle's Steak House
> on an occasional Friday night where twin lobster dinners (per person)
> were $4.95 and a glass of wine was a buck.
>
> Life was good.
>
> gloria p
>

I make that exact point to say how rotten todays economy has gotten. For
example, I know that between my two parents they were pulling in $30K a
year and had bought a house in 1973 for $20,000. In other words they
made about 50% more than the house was worth in a single year.

In my case I'm making close over twice what they did, yet I cannot
afford the mortgage on a home in my area. The average is now over
$250,000 for a shack.

Damned baby boomers are the problem. Me, I'm first born of Gen-X.

T > wrote:

>In my case I'm making close over twice what they did, yet I cannot
>afford the mortgage on a home in my area. The average is now over
>$250,000 for a shack.
>
>Damned baby boomers are the problem.

Baby boomers are not the problem; U.S. real estate prices are
high because of the decades of trade deficits. All those
dollars sent overseas have to come back into the country one
way or another. Foreign ownership of U.S. real estate and
U.S. companies is the inevitable result if the U.S. isn't
exporting enough products, as a result real estate is squeezed
up in price.


Ask any high-end realtor.


Steve

>

T wrote:

> How primitive! I can't imagine a spinal for an appendectomy. Then again,
> I'm of the modern age where chemistry rules supreme.
>
> The only surgery I've ever had was removal of my tonsils and adenoids
> and they used gas for that.
>
> Then through the years dentistry using laughing gas fell out and
> novo/lido was in. Then for the major stuff there were the benzo drips,
> heaven!
>
You are dating yourself. Responsible surgeons use the least risky
anesthesia possible. Why would an appendectomy using a spinal (more
likely epidural) be any worse than having a c-section using one. That is
the standard, y'know? Heck, nowadays that appy is done laproscopically
more often than not. The recovery time for the patient is lessened, as
well as the risks.

T wrote:
> In article . com>,
> says...
>> I had my appendectomy for free... was my tenth birthday present, a week in the
>> hospital, best part of of all was the spinal, like a baseball bat
>> WOPped in my back,
>>
>>
>
> How primitive! I can't imagine a spinal for an appendectomy. Then again,
> I'm of the modern age where chemistry rules supreme.
>


I had my appendix out in 1953 and had ether. I can still remember the
smell. The last thing I can recall was saying "That STINKS!" and
hearing my pediatrician, who assisted in the surgery, say "Smells,
darling, smells...."

gloria p

"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.
>
> Barry
>
> 45 Records were 1.00
>
> Download singles are still... 1.00
>
> What a rip off music has been.


Idiot!

We make more now and live better than ever before.

Dimitri

Minimum hourly wage of workers in jobs first covered by Effective Date1938 Act
11961
Oct 24, 1938 $0.25
Oct 24, 1939 $0.30
Oct 24, 1945 $0.40
Jan 25, 1950 $0.75
Mar 1, 1956 $1.00
Sep 3, 1961 $1.15
Sep 3, 1963 $1.25
Sep 3, 1964 $1.15
Sep 3, 1965 $1.25
Feb 1, 1967 $1.40
Feb 1, 1968 $1.60
Feb 1, 1969 $1.30
Feb 1, 1970 $1.45
Feb 1, 1971 $1.60
May 1, 1974 $2.00
Jan. 1, 1975 $2.10
Jan 1, 1976 $2.30
Jan 1, 1977 $2.30
Jan 1, 1978 $2.65 for all covered, nonexempt workers
Jan 1, 1979 $2.90 for all covered, nonexempt workers
Jan 1, 1980 $3.10 for all covered, nonexempt workers
Jan 1, 1981 $3.35 for all covered, nonexempt workers
Apr 1, 1990 $3.80 for all covered, nonexempt workers
Apr 1, 1991 $4.25 for all covered, nonexempt workers
Oct 1, 1996 $4.75 for all covered, nonexempt workers
Sep 1, 19975 $5.15 for all covered, nonexempt workers

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:34:55 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:

>blake murphy said...
>
>> On 15 Mar 2007 00:44:35 -0700, "Gregory Morrow"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>Puester wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I was a kid in the mid 50's my parents owned a grocery store.
>>>>
>>>> a loaf of bread was 15 cents
>>>> Rice Krispies were 15 cents a box
>>>> a large candy bar was a nickel
>>>> most penny candy was 3, 4 or 5 for a penny
>>>> so 5 cents would get you a small sackful
>>>> a bar of soap was a nickel
>>>> a can of Campbell's soup was 15 cents
>>>> potatoes were 3 cents a pound and when there was a bad crop
>>>> and they went to 5 cents, many people stopped buying them
>>>> cigarettes were 25 cents
>>>> a package of gum was 5 cents
>>>> a half pint of milk at school was 2 cents a day
>>>> a well-balanced school lunch was 25 cents
>>>
>>>
>>>Multiply those prices by a factor of around 7 for inflation purposes,
>>>and some of those items are roughly the same price today (at least on
>>>sale) 'Cept for cigs, which are around seven bux a pack today (in
>>>Chicawgo at least)...
>>
>> seven bucks? that's brutal. slightly less than five in maryland
>> (suburban d.c.). do you have butt smugglers like in new york?
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
>
>I quit smoking the day cigs cost $4.00 a pack (Sept. 1, 2004, 10am). Call
>it a cost of living bonus. I never looked back.
>
>Now about my SweetTart habit...
>
>Andy

my dad once said, 'jeez, if the cost of cigarettes goes up much more,
i may have to stop drinking.'

your pal,
blake

In article >, says...
> T > wrote:
>
> >In my case I'm making close over twice what they did, yet I cannot
> >afford the mortgage on a home in my area. The average is now over
> >$250,000 for a shack.
> >
> >Damned baby boomers are the problem.
>
> Baby boomers are not the problem; U.S. real estate prices are
> high because of the decades of trade deficits. All those
> dollars sent overseas have to come back into the country one
> way or another. Foreign ownership of U.S. real estate and
> U.S. companies is the inevitable result if the U.S. isn't
> exporting enough products, as a result real estate is squeezed
> up in price.
>
>
> Ask any high-end realtor.
>
>
> Steve

That may be part of it, but how did the trade deficit get so large? You
got it, the baby boom.

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:10:15 +0000 (UTC),
(Steve Pope) wrote:

>T > wrote:
>
>>In article >, says...
>
>>>
>>> Baby boomers are not the problem; U.S. real estate prices are
>>> high because of the decades of trade deficits.
>
>> That may be part of it, but how did the trade deficit get so
>> large? You got it, the baby boom.
>
>Oil imports? Walmart? Consumerism in general, combined with
>trade barriers?
>
>Steve
>
i say we eliminate sugar tariffs and give havana back to the mob.

your pal,
bugsy

Steve Pope wrote:
> T > wrote:
>
>> In article >, says...
>
>>> Baby boomers are not the problem; U.S. real estate prices are
>>> high because of the decades of trade deficits.
>
>> That may be part of it, but how did the trade deficit get so
>> large? You got it, the baby boom.
>
> Oil imports? Walmart? Consumerism in general, combined with
> trade barriers?
>
> Steve
>
>
>


I've often thought it was because realtors earn a percentage of the sale
price and have no qualms about advising the seller to price high and
hinting to the buyer that the property is worth more than the asking price.

When we moved to Colorado in the mid 80's it wasn't uncommon to see
buyers put up a "For Sale" sign six weeks after they moved in, asking a
hefty increase in price.

Prices are insane. I was reading a real estate ad this week, thinking,
"Hmm, sounds like a fairly nice house, but nothing special" when I got
to the price. $1.3 million. On less than 1/6 acre. No, thanks.

gloria p

Puester > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> T > wrote:

>>>> Baby boomers are not the problem; U.S. real estate prices are
>>>> high because of the decades of trade deficits.

>>> That may be part of it, but how did the trade deficit get so
>>> large? You got it, the baby boom.

>> Oil imports? Walmart? Consumerism in general, combined with
>> trade barriers?

> I've often thought it was because realtors earn a percentage
> of the sale price and have no qualms about advising the seller
> to price high and hinting to the buyer that the property is
> worth more than the asking price.

> When we moved to Colorado in the mid 80's it wasn't uncommon to see
> buyers put up a "For Sale" sign six weeks after they moved in, asking a
> hefty increase in price.

> Prices are insane. I was reading a real estate ad this week, thinking,
> "Hmm, sounds like a fairly nice house, but nothing special" when I got
> to the price. $1.3 million. On less than 1/6 acre. No, thanks.

Yes, add speculation and profiteering to the list, along with
mortgage tax breaks and abnormally low interest rates which would
normally be fueling inflation and thus triggering interest rate
increases from the Fed except that so-called government "inflation"
figures exclude real estate and energy costs...

S.