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

[Ms Bibbidi]

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.

Cool. For sure! Also, the McDonalds arches had a sign counting how many MILLIONS (not yet billions) of hamburgers sold. You could get a bag of 10 burgers for just a small amount of money (I can’t remember exactly how much now) and share among friends.

 

[Debbie Jean]

Grew up in Boston. My mother loved reading her Globe every afternoon. She’d give me 12 cents… 7 cents for the paper and a nickel to spend on penny candy at the corner store. Looked forward to that treat!

 

[T00dles]

I'm so old I remember when streaming movies involved an actual stream where you floated VHS tapes downstream to your neighbor for 50 wooden nickels a month.

 

[Disneyland1084]

When the local movie theatre had $2 Tuesdays, all movies, all day and night long.. And when a one day ticket to Disneyland cost $28.75.

 

[Debbie Jean]

Boston again. I remember when I could get into Fenway Park with general admission for 75 cents. Saw Ted Williams play left his last year and Yaz as rookie the next year.

 

[barkley]

comic books 5/10/15 cents each (depending on number of pages)

candy bars (name brand) 5 cents (bigger ones 10 cents)

public school hot lunch (including milk/not low income price) 35 cents

$7.30 disneyland admission

 

[bsmcneil]

Gas was under $1 per gallon . . .

Was just telling my kids about this, lol.

If I'm not mistaken, a lot of sodas in vending machines were (I thought) $.25 - and then 35 cents. Normal-sized candy bars being 2/1 or, like 59 cents each. A 12-pk of name brand soda was like 2.50.

 

[antmaril]

I remembered another one - In elementary school we could buy milk at lunch time. A carton of white milk was three cents and chocolate milk was a nickel.

 

[kanerf]

I could go to the Saturday matinee on base as an Army Brat and it cost all of 50 cents. For less than a dollar you could see a movie and have popcorn and a drink.

 

[Simba's Mom]

I remembered another one - In elementary school we could buy milk at lunch time. A carton of white milk was three cents and chocolate milk was a nickel.

I remember 3 cent milk also! And a hot lunch cost 25 cents. When I got to high school, it went up to 40 cents.

 

[Vcize]

I remember when I was in high school myself and two other friends were starving but could only scrounge up $5 total between the 3 of us.

We went to Taco Bell and feasted like kings.

 

[barkley]

I remember when I was in high school myself and two other friends were starving but could only scrounge up $5 total between the 3 of us.

We went to Taco Bell and feasted like kings.

that would have gotten us 26 tacos at taco bell when i was in high school but we would have been suspended for leaving campus to get them (we were allowed to smoke on campus but walk a block away to get a taco and there was a call to your parents).

 

[flyingdumbo127]

I do remember when Thrifty's (Long now Rite Aid) had a busy ice cream counter. A scoop went from 15 cents to a quarter during my childhood. I do remember a brief time of being able to return a shopping cart back into its corral and being paid a quarter. Free ice cream when a cart was in the parking lot.

 

[AnnaS]

I remember when pizza, a loaf of Italian bread and bus/train fare was 35 cents. For years, the price for each went up same time - a nickel at a time.

My first car was a dealer's"demo" - $5,600.

 

[JulieBeeRN]

Party lines

 

[Chupaca bruh]

These were five cents when I was a kid.

 

[disneyseniors]

Our first house when we got married cost $15,000. It was a nice 3 bedroom with one bath, (most houses only had one bathroom at that time), living room, kitchen, and full walk out basement. The yard was fenced in completely. We added a 2 car garage on a few years later. Our first car was a l968 Chevy impala which cost 2,000 dollars. Of course, we didn't make as much money as people do now, no one did except if you were rich.