Posted on 03/18/2009 3:10:52 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
No comment really needed!
Isn’t it funny? That’s how much they used to charge. Now, it’s as much as we can afford to pay.
I can remember my old man bitching about those outrageous prices...
Wow! That was sure as hell printed before my time.
It must have been a different world back when a man go to work while his wife could stay home and raise the children, while the family got along just fine financially....
A super jumbo banana split sounds really good about now. I always love seeing the old stuff like menus and ads and catalogs. I have a 1961 Life magazine that I recently showed the kids.
I find the 10c coke and the 30c Ham Salad Sandwich a little pricy.
http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2//viewtopic.php?p=1210578#1210578
“Raising free-range kids”
When I was six, my Dad built a boat for me— 10 feet long, 4 feet in beam. You’d call it rowboat, but we called it a “bat-tow” ( darned if I can spell it correctly, or even locate the proper spelling ) with oarlocks and a bench midships. The transom was reinforced for an outboard motor, but I wasn’t entrusted with one of those ‘till a few years later.
I would collect soft drink bottles on the beach, and when I had 25 of them, load the boat and row to the pier in the Village. Yes, we are talking about being at the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean.
Climb a vertical wood ladder- no guard cage, no rails, no nothin’ for safety- about a twenty-foot climb— and haul my booty to the deck. The tourists were always impressed by the little white-haired, nut-brown ( yes, my black friends often told me I “passed,” I was so dark... ) beach boy.
From there to the Community Market, to redeem the bottles for reuse at the Coke plant on the mainland.
Then, to Ward’s drugstore. where 25 cents would buy me one hot dog and a coke for lunch.
Then, row back home...
Accounts Receivable Tax Building Permit Tax CDL license Tax Cigarette Tax Corporate Income Tax Dog License Tax Excise Taxes Federal Income Tax Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) Fishing License Tax Food License Tax Fuel Permit Tax Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon) Grocery Tax Gross Receipts Tax Hunting License Tax Income Tax Inheritance Tax Inventory Tax IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax) Liquor Tax Luxury Taxes Marriage License Tax Medicare Tax Personal Property Tax Property Tax Real Estate Tax Service Charge T ax Social Security Tax Road Usage Tax Sales Tax Recreational Vehicle Tax School Tax State Income Tax State Unemployment Tax (SUTA) Telephone Federal Excise Tax Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge=2 0Tax Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax Telephone State and Local Tax Telephone Usage Charge Tax Utility Taxes Vehicle License Registration Tax Vehicle Sales Tax Watercraft Registration Tax Well Permit Tax Workers Compensation Tax
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What in the hell happened? Can you spell ‘politicians?’ And I still have to ‘press 1’ for English!? GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!
“It must have been a different world back when a man go to work while his wife could stay home and raise the children, while the family got along just fine financially....”
yup, not at all like today, nor like the century and all others that preceded those times. we have forgotten how rare true prosperity has been in history.
No date that I can see but it was printed in the USA.
Unfortunately that probably wasn’t from too many years before my birth in 64. When I started driving in the 80s I could still get a gallon of gas in the 50 and 60 cent range.
Until you realize that minimum wage was $0.75 per hour!
At $0.75 per hour, you had to work 32 minutes to buy that $0.40 Ham Sandwich.
At today's minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, 32 minutes would get you $3.87, which is about what a Ham Sandwich costs at Hardee’s or Arby’s.
The more things change, the more they stay the same!!
And I can remember was gas was .25/gallon
Cigarettes were less than 1.00/pack...
“When I started driving in the 80s...”
Not to quibble, but gasoline went to $1 per gallon in 1979-1980. It got back down to $1 in 1984. I’m not sure when you’re thinking this price of 50 cents would’ve been.
I paid $50-60 when I started driving in 1977 tho. I could fill up the family New Yorker (the Queen Mary with a 440 engine!) on $13 when I started driving, but it took almost $30 in 1980.
The ‘73 Duster would not accept more than $8 in gas when I started driving it.......
Oh, and thank the “feminist” movement as well while you’re at it. I can remember back 40 yrs, when women who didn’t have “careers” or “jobs” were looked down on as somehow not normal or worthwhile.
The scripture speaks of the condition where “women shall rule over them” as not a desirable condition. (Witness Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi)
I came back from Texas (84) and got into an argument with a guy that owned the local gas station because his gas was more than 20 cents higher at 81 cents than the station down the road.
In the late sixties gas ran around 19 to 29 cents.
Gas wars could push it down to 14 cents.
In small burger stands where the owner did most of the cooking, 25 cents could get a small burger and a coke.
Diesel is over 2 bucks now.
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