“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.
I was the baby of the family. My three older siblings had already graduated from high school, were all working, and paying $100 room and board each month, which allowed my mother to splurge on lunch for me. When I graduated high school in 1965, and went to work full-time, I had to pay the same amount of room and board as my siblings.