I Remember When…..
While discussing the rising cost of gas these days, a co-worker and I started playing a game today at lunch.
I Remember when:
- A pay phone call cost $.05
- First Class postage was $.10
- You could get a McDonalds ice cream cone for $.08 plus $.03 tax
- I could fill up my gas tank with a ten dollar bill and have enough left over for a burger, fries and a drink
- You went to a restaurant and didn't order by the number, (they actually customized your meal)
- TV was free…..
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Man, how old are you?!? I remember the phone being a dime, but not a nickle, and .08 for ice cream? What was that, 1945? BTW me thinks you spend a little too much time at Micky-D’s lol!
Good Luck with Phoenix… hehe!
When I was a teenager I sold Dickie Dee icecream for about a month one summer (you know Dickie Dee was or is the kind of company that hires teenagers to drive around with an “ice-cream” bike to local neighborhoods? oh yeah that was FUN! I had the rough neighborhoods.). I can’t remember the exact prices but I’d say most of the products were between .50 and 1.00 Now I think most products on those ice-cream bikes or ice-cream trucks are at least $2.00 or more.
Then I moved on to a better job at McDonalds! Whoo hoo! Where I made $2.35/hr (minimum wage in my province is now about 7.50/hr).
Just thinking about it - my dad used to drive me to my ice-cream bike pick up, and he’d also me to my McDonalds job, and pick me up. I was soooooo spoiled! Nah he was just a worried dad.
What else? Penny candies- blackballs (mmm I loved those!) and caramels for a penny each. .25 chocolate bars, and .25 bags of chips. I think just about everything has gone up 400 to 500% since I was a kid.
Gas prices just went up again here this week. It’s at about 1.10 / litre (1 litre = 0.264172051 US gallons you do the math!) … and they say Canada actually has some of the lowest natural gas prices in the world. Well, that’s BEFORE taxes. Our taxes must be pretty high!
I remember the days at drive in restaurants where you would have the waitresses come out to car to take your order, and they would give you trays to affix to your window to put your food on.
Good times.
I guess the cheapest thing I remember was gas @ .83 a gallon!
Ed in a nutshell those were the good old days.Drive- in movies,driving
home stewed ,and made it without hitting anyone.But the streets weren’t crowded back then.
Mr. Fab,
We still have them here in Texas. It’s burger place called Sonic drive In. Some of the waitresses come out on skates. They actually have great breakfast options that I pick up sometime.
Tricia,
I forgot that my first job was minimum wage at $3.35.
Everyone,
Those were the good old days.
my daddy giving me a silver dollar to go to the movies in mesquite, texas. (polulation now over 800,000 but was 1,800 then) and i got to see the movie, get a candy bar, popcorn, sodiepop, and have change left over for seconds for a drink or a candy….we (my cousins) would go in when it opened at 9am, but we would go in after our lunch.. and stay all day long…till we got hungy and then daddy would walk down and get us and we would walk home and i remember smelling the neighbors burning leaves…my little hand in my daddy’s big ole hand and thinking ‘man..this is the life’….
Jackiesue,
That’s a wonderful memory.
Okay so I don’t remember those things but I do remember that a soft serve at Macca’s was 20c then it went to 30c and they were advertising it as “The 30c cone”, that was its name! Then it went up in price! WTF? Bastards!
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I don’t smoke anymore but I remember when cigarettes cost 80¢. Now they are almost $4 in Florida.
Oh, the good ol’ days. Thank you for making me feel really old….
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