Im so old i remember when .... Cost .?

[Spinneret]

cans of pop cost 45p

 

[TippyThomas]

I could walk into the corner store with a quarter and walk out with 25 pieces of penny candy.

 

[tvguy]

Photo of the McDonald's menu from my High School Year book 1973. " Burger, fries and a shake, that will be 75 cents please"

 

[Clifton Tesh]

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Miracle Whip .99

 

[tvguy]

Miracle Whip .99

More than it's worth even at that price.

 

[fla4fun]

Gas was under $1 per gallon . . .

 

[barb969]

1000 sheet roll of Scott’s toilet paper 25 cents
McD’s hamburger, fries and a coke 37 cents
Milk quart and cigarettes 25 cents each.
I could go on and on. I worked as a checker in Grand Union in 1961. We learned prices —no computers.

 

[Ms Bibbidi]

Gas was under $1 per gallon . . .

I remember gas wars. At one time when I was a teen it was 16 cents a gallon.

 

[mmouse37]

I remember when a gallon of milk was $.50.

 

[BrianL]

I remember when The Price Is right only used 4 digits for the price of a car. Eventually they had to start spotting you the 1 and these days the 2.

 

[Cadiewampus]

I remember gas wars. At one time when I was a teen it was 16 cents a gallon.

Lowest I remember it hovered between mid 30 and 49 cents a gallon

 

[kdonnel]

Similar in thought....

My daughter was at a county wide school function a couple days ago. People got put into groups and as an ice breaker had to pick a coin out of a bag and say what they were doing in the year of the coin.

My daughter pulled a coin and put it back. Pulled another and put it back. The group asked her why? She explained she was not born yet for those coins. The group groaned as they realized they were old. Someone else handed her a 2018 coin and when she responded graduating high school, they groaned even louder and said they didn't want to play anymore as they were now depressed and old.

 

[antmaril]

I graduated from high school in 1969. We were allowed to leave the campus for lunch. So, we would go to McDonald’s and get a burger, fries and a Coke for 50 cents. Those were the days.

 

[amcnj]

As a kid I remember bazooka bubble gum was a penny. There was a big uproar among us kids when years later it went to 2 cents!

I think gas was around 30 cents a gallon. I didn’t drive then, but had to walk to the gas station to get the can for the lawn mower filled.

 

[Clifton Tesh]

When I was around 10 years old the woman my dad was married to was a smoker.

We lived in the tiny little town of Walnut Cove, NC.

My dad's wife used to write a check for $12 and me and my brother would ride our bikes to the gas station and pick up a carton of doral menthol 100s, 2 Dr peppers in the long neck glass bottles, 2 hot dogs, and a couple packs of candy cigarettes.

Try to send a 10 and 12 year old to the store to pick up cigarettes for you nowadays... They'll get kidnapped before they get there!

 

[Pinnochio]

I graduated from high school in 1969. We were allowed to leave the campus for lunch. So, we would go to McDonald’s and get a burger, fries and a Coke for 50 cents. Those were the days.

I was 10 and i remember that....Mom would give me a dollar to go out with the boys on my bike....i was a little piggie and had the same order as you except for 1 more hamburger.....total 76 cents ....left me 24 cents for a can of coke and a 2 pack of hostess cupcakes....

life was simpler then....

 

[NannyBeBe]

I remember gas at 19 cents a gallon. I remember when for 10 cents I could get a fudgsicle and a tiny pop called a Pee Wee.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I graduated from high school in 1969. We were allowed to leave the campus for lunch. So, we would go to McDonald’s and get a burger, fries and a Coke for 50 cents. Those were the days.

That's the same year I graduated from high school. McDonalds burgers were 15 cents, I think. When I was in college and in my own apartment, ground beef was 89 cents a pound, cigarettes were 40 cents a pack, gas was about 35 cents a gallon, and my first car, my 1973 Ford Pinto, cost $3300.

 

[goofyernmost]

Gas without the gas wars was 29.9 cent per gallon in 1966.

I remember when The Price Is right only used 4 digits for the price of a car. Eventually they had to start spotting you the 1 and these days the 2.

I bought my first new car in 1970. It was a Buick Skylark and it cost $3400.00