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To: lonestar

Penny post cards,

“Stop where you are, buy a Brach’s Candy Bar. It is a dandy bar. A nickel is all you pay.”

“Twice as much for a nickel too, Pepsi Cola is the drink for you.”

Ice cream cone five cents one scoop, a silver dime for two scoops.

Candy bars five cents except Almond Joy and Mounds which were a dime.

Gas was .29 per gallon at the good stations in the late fifties, .32 for regular leaded. Ethyl cost a couple cents more.

Shakes were .20 and malts were 25. Some burgers were .19.

All comic books were a dime and classics, great for book reports, were .15.

These prices lasted quite a while, too.


52 posted on 01/24/2008 3:16:33 PM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: 8mmMauser
Gas was .29 per gallon at the good stations in the late fifties, .32 for regular leaded. Ethyl cost a couple cents more.

In the late 60's I lived in Houston; had an Exxon station at the end of my street. I regularly paid 22-23 cents but during gas wars we paid 17 cents.

We always got Green Stamps with our gasoline----and they had nothing to do with environmental issues!

61 posted on 01/24/2008 5:42:06 PM PST by lonestar
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