[PA Engineer]

Thanks. I was six in 62. Same car and almost identical store. Paper only and no plastic. $5.63! Paychecks average about 100 a week and the split level mortgage was $82. Car payments were less than $10 a month and Mom stayed at home to take care of the four of us. Shoes were a bit on the expensive side. Our family also had money left over to save. What more can I say. Thank you inflation and fiat currency.

[FrdmLvr]

I was 7 in '62. My parents' mortgage was ELEVEN DOLLARS/mo. I used to go to the bank with my mom and the teller stamped her book with her payment. We lived in a shake-shingled Dutch colonial in a beautiful middle-class neighborhood. This was an average mortgage payment in that day.

As for kids behaving in public in those days...did we have a choice? I didn't know you COULD misbehave in public!