who knew you could still sail the QE2 to Europe in 1985. Only $599!
Posted on 10/07/2026 8:04:41 AM PDT by appeal2
I created this cool app to explain inflation to my kids. I used 1957, the year of my birth. According to the CPI $1 of goods in 1957 cost nearly $12. But look at housing, gold, silver, the Dow, the S&P 500. You will be shocked as I was and this has been my business for 16 years. www.DollarTimeMachine.com
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$14.85 for $1.00 1947. One place inflation has never taken hold is for bar bands. I never realized how rich I was in the mid 1960’s. Our band today gets the same as I was getting back then. Usually $100/per player. Good thing I still like doing it. 😂👍🎸🇺🇸
Now they are Dollar Stores, but even those are not a dollar stores anymore.
The devaluation of the dollar is unrelenting!
Same here. We never got a raise in all these years.
When my mom remarried he took us to the $1.19 Steakhouse, that was the name of the place.
🤔😂👍
When a mixed drink costs $10 you should ask for a higher fee..............
When I arrived in US in 1960, they had DIME stores in Iowa city where I was enrolled in university of Iowa.
who knew you could still sail the QE2 to Europe in 1985. Only $599!
My favorite restaurant in 1962-1964 was Ted’s grill in downtown Chicago, $1.19 steak dinner with 2 sides!
It needs to add the cost of college. I bet that outpaces everything else.
😂👍. Sadly there are enough folks that’ll still do it for the price offered. Like I said, despite set up, tear down, travel, practice and rehearsals, we all enjoy doing it and the audience seems to like it. Seven gigs in Oct. 🤔😂👍🎸
As Voltarie supposedly once said, “Paper money has always returned to its intrinsic value,,,,,ZERO”.
Also, consider that the $20 gold coin is one ounce of gold and the US went off the gold standard in 71.
That is the price FDR offered when the government confiscated gold.
My favorite meal as a kid was James Coney Island in downtown Houston, an ancient and run down chili dog place full of well dressed businessmen and everyone else, 4 of the best chili dogs around and a bottle of Hires or XXX rootbeer for $1.00.
Gas,, normal price $.32/gallon,,,,,gas wars back then $.25/ gallon.
Now, the TAX per gallon of gas is double or more than the actual price of gas back then.
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