I remember gas lines, I am of the “silent” generation, born DURING WWII. I also remember when one hundred dollars a week was a dream, anyone who earned that much was considered well off. It was equal to at least fifteen hundred in today’s worthless dollars. As a teenager I was happy to work all day in the hot sun for three or four dollars. I had a classmate in high school who bought a 1955 Cadillac Sedan Deville in perfect running condition for fifty dollars in 1962.
You sound like one of the 4 Yorkshiremen, lol!
I don’t know when less than a hundred dollars a week, in NYC, paid the rent, utilities and food. Perhaps in the earlier part of the 20th Century but certainly not in the 70s. It didn’t even pay for my commute. But it taught me how to work with a**holes!
I too was born during WW II ( we're called "WAR BABIES !" )and the so-called "SILENT GENERATION" was that of our parents!
Maybe $100 a week was out of your reach, where you live/d, but that was NOT the case where I lived; not by a long shot.