[mass55th]

"We didn't eat out much when I was a child, because it was expensive."

When we were kids, eating out was getting a quarter on the weekend to go to the local theater. It cost us 15 cents to get in, and 10 cents for a box of popcorn. We never ate out. We didn't have the money, and we didn't have a car to get us there, even if we had wanted to. When I got to high school in 1960, my mother gave me a $1.00 a day for lunch. We'd leave the school, and run down the street a few blocks to the sweet shoppe. I'd order a tuna sub which cost 50 cents, a coke, and a bag of chips. I usually had 10 cents left to put in the juke box. I think my first real experience of eating out at a restaurant was after I got my first full-time job in 1965. We had an hour for lunch, and one of the girls who had a car would take us to one of the area restaurants to eat.

[alexander_busek]

When I got to high school in 1960, my mother gave me a $1.00 a day for lunch. [...] I'd order a tuna sub which cost 50 cents, a coke, and a bag of chips. I usually had 10 cents left to put in the juke box.

That's kinda pricey for 1960, I'd say.

That must have been a deluxe tuna sub!

Regards,

[TalBlack]

“When I got to high school in 1960, my mother gave me a $1.00 a day for lunch. “
That was a decent amount for lunch in 1960 for a kid.