The good old days

[tommy steam]

Remember the good old days,when ham was a buck a pound..........................but nobody had the buck....Ah, the good old days..:jester:

[Bill-n-Brillo]

And with "gas wars" in some areas, you could buy fuel for 19.9 cents/gal! (in the late '60s).

Bill :)

[Posh 08]

I remember "another day, another dollar" or "a dollar a day and a dinner bucket" being said by the "old timers".

[Sunshine Mary]

Yes soda ,chip and a candy bar was 25 cents

[Cantwaittoarrive]

I remeber going to the candy store in Scottsdale PA and getting a penny's worth of different kinds of candy. For five or ten cents you could walk out with a small brown bag full of candy

[2BNTV]

The good old days are here today but I remember penny candies. For a quarter, you could get enough candy that you felt a cavity was starting. :jester:

I remember buying gas at 22 cents per gallon. Now more than $4.00 a gallon.

[eweissenbach]

I remember when inflation became a clear concept to me. Comic books went from 5 cents to 10 cents in the mid-fifties. Ice cream cones 5 cents per dip, hamburgers ten for a dollar, ice cream sundae - 25 cents - with 3 dips! Candy bars 5 cents. Even after we were married in the late 60s we took a vacation in northern Minnesota and stayed in a cabin, with a 1/2 bath and a fishing boat for $40 a week (I was making $5,900 a year as a high school teacher and head basketball coach).

[jblum315]

Remember when gas was 25 cents a gallon and a carful of teenagers had to combine their pocket change to refill the tank? Because you couldn't return it to Dad half empty.

[eweissenbach]

Here is a website that I have used for years and is fascinating. It calculates prices with inflation from any years forward or back. Put in what you made in 1970 for example and calculate what that would be in todays dollars, or calculate what a car costs today and what that would be in 1970 dollars.
Tom's Inflation Calculator (http://www.halfhill.com/inflation.html)

[njbchbum]

anyone remember when a dollar was worth a dollar?

[Golfingnut]

anyone remember when a dollar was worth a dollar?

I may be wrong, but a dollar is worth a dollar right now. It may not buy as much as it used to, but it is in fact worth a dollar. And thankfully we all make so many more of them than we used to in the Old Days.

:undecided:

[jblum315]

Here is a website that I have used for years and is fascinating. It calculates prices with inflation from any years forward or back. Put in what you made in 1970 for example and calculate what that would be in todays dollars, or calculate what a car costs today and what that would be in 1970 dollars.
Tom's Inflation Calculator (http://www.halfhill.com/inflation.html)

That website is fascinating and lots of fun to play around with. Thanks.

[CaptJohn]

And with "gas wars" in some areas, you could buy fuel for 19.9 cents/gal! (in the late '60s).

Bill :)

Yep and the regular price was 25 cents! :laugh:

[CaptJohn]

I may be wrong, but a dollar is worth a dollar right now. It may not buy as much as it used to, but it is in fact worth a dollar.

Maybe so, maybe not. Back then you could use a silver dollar or a paper dollar equally.
Now a silver dollar sells for or equals 28 paper dollars!

[DandyGirl]

I remember going to McDonalds and getting a burger, fries and a coke and paying $.51 (that's including tax).

[skyguy79]

Want to give your sweet tooth a fantasy trip back to yesteryear?

Popular Candy from the 1960's - Candycrate.com (http://www.candycrate.com/popular1960scandy.html)

[Posh 08]

Yep and the regular price was 25 cents! :laugh:

And there was such thing as "self service" at the pump. Oil checked and windshield cleaned. :bowdown: