The Year is 1904ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

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[Bryan]

Wow! How do you remember all that? I remember paying .75¢ for a pack of cigarettes.

I'm 45 years old, so it wasn't that long ago. My first pack of cigarettes was 55¢. My first gallon of gas cost 33¢. My first gallon of milk was $1.00, and my first apartment was $125 a month, utilities paid. But the minimum wage was only $2.90.

[BykrBayb]

Yeah, but did you see all the stuff woofie remembers from 1904? LOL

[Bryan]

When I was a little kid, candy bars were 5¢ and a bottle of Coke -- yes, a real glass bottle from a vending machine -- was 10¢. I could make a quarter last most of the afternoon.

[Bryan]

Woofie is old. I still feel young, baby.

[BykrBayb]

I'm drinking one of those glass bottles of Coke now. The small (8 oz) bottle. Yum!

[SunkenCiv]

Every once in a while I have a relative hit 100 years old. And believe it or not, the card shops stock "when you were born..." birthday cards for such occasions. One of my aunts was born in 1893 (she died at 104, early in 1998) and the stuff just in her card was kinda mind-boggling. :')

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Heh, heh.

Precisely!

Lily The Pink

[rcocean]

I doubt we know how many times American Women washed their hair in 1904.

Given that only 8% of Americans had phones and most lived in small towns and farms - How and who would they contacted to determine this?

I would love to know the basis for this factoid. Gallup and the other national polls didn't come into being until after WWI.

Also, people in 1904 were much more modest about themselves. I wonder in many women in 1904 would have answered what they doubt considered a impertinent question.