Smoking is a nasty habit. I’m glad it has fallen out of favor.
$1.00 in 1965 translates to $9.98 today. Thank you Fedzilla for devaluing our currency.
$2.00 in 1965 translates to $19.96 today. Eff You again, Fedzilla.
BTW, there’s really no such thing as a long distance phone call, today. The “grocery price” is very ambiguous ... but you can get a whole lot of things at the grocery for less than ten bucks today, so I’m not sure how to interpret that claim in a reasonable manner.
The IBM Selectric typewriter was one of the world’s greatest inventions.
Oh, yeah ... 72% adults married ... Thanks again, government. Welfare, no-fault divorce, the horror show that is “family court”, abortion ... all designed to destroy the family and empower the State.
I still have an early 1990’s vintage IBM Selectric typewriter in my library at work. We used to use it to type call numbers on the small adhesive stickers. We had someone come in an ask specifically to use a typewriter last year for the first in years. He typed out an obituary for his spouse. I have two more on a shelf in reserve.