when I started driving in 1965, gas cost 29 cents a gallon. When you pulled into the gas station guys would come out and wash the car windows, check the oil, and put air in the tires! This is in California in the 60s. I swore I would never say old lady things like that, but here it is - it's true! Bread was 29 cents a loaf, too.
non-jw memories
by Hortensia 29 Replies latest jw friends
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Hortensia
anyone else?
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BFD
Old lady my foot.
Well, wait a minute, I guess you are. When I started driving gas was 45 cents/gal. We used to have to go to the bar to grab money off the bar to go get bread before daddy drank it all. 29 cents. Holy crap, if you go by bread, I'm in the same boat!
BFD
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loosie
It used to cost only 10 cents to send a letter. Only one kid on the block had a video game system. it was black and white and only played Pong. You used to have to hold your casette player up to your radio to record a song.
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Hortensia
Heck, I remember 8-track tape players! And two kinds of sliced bread - brown and white. I remember stockings and garters. They came out with pantyhose when I was in junior high school.
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Hope4Others
Stockings and garters were quite sexy, i loved the seam up the back of the leg.
I remember my grandmother sending me to the store for smokes with a note they were 50 cents a pack,
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llbh
Hippies, i was a flower power happy Hippie - whatever happened to them?
David
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WTWizard
I remember taping songs off the radio. You had to put the mic next to the speaker (and play it loudly, so the background noise was minimized). Then you had to be ready when they cut the song short, because it was unpredictable. Some stations were much worse, and some were extremely unpredictable.
Now, all you do is download the songs.
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Casper
I remember those things too, Hortensia...
I remember spending $30 for weekly groceries and having to make more than one or 2 trips to the car to bring them in.
Also when I was little, I would get off the School Bus at a small grocery store, go in and get a large bag of potato chips and a 12 oz. soft drink and it would only cost me a quarter...!!
Cas
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nelly136
can remember my dad moaning when petrol hit 60p a gallon, when crisps were 2oz and 2p a packet and the chewing gum vending machines that threw out a free packet for every 5th 2p posted in the slot.
50p would give you all day in the penny arcades and usually you brought some pennies home, a lot of the machines took 1/2pences and all of the machines paid out nearly as much as you put in.
getting given a card as a kid with a three penny bit (funny little coin with lots of edges) that i couldn't spend cos we'd already gone decimal.
chummies little wooden barrow for cockles and whelks and jellied eels on a friday night at folkestone harbour after shopping as folkestone had the preferred supermarket at the time, (chummies is still there but with prices starting at £2.50 and more for a very little dish of seafood.....sigh)
cockling at greatstone, climbing over folkestone warren shrimping and prawning in the rock pools. coming home and eating them fresh cooked out of the pan
everyone had zylophones as endorsed by the great rolf harris.
amazing little gadgets would come on the adverts then every home would have one, buttoneers, hand sewing gadgets, chopping gadget which would turn anything to fine crumble (i've bought the modern versions but they just dont work)
toasted sarnies were made in one of those strange flying saucer like contraptions that you'd sit on the hob, but would roll around while you tried to fill them.
everyone had the chip pan with a basket and that would be filled with lard, used to fascinate me watching the lard melting each time it was used.
fridges were like a reversed tardis, massive on the outside, all sides on the inside and barely room to put anything in em.
if dinners were prepared and anyone was late they were put on top of a steaming saucepan to 'keep em warm' and you could count the gravy rings round the dried out offering as you ate it later, worse still it was put in the oven and totally dehydrated into an inedible crusty heap with a gunge of gravy somewhere if you were lucky.
eggs were fresh from the chickens in the garden, these days i still buy home grown eggs off my friend who keeps chickens, they take 6+ mins to soft boil as opposed to the battery supermarket stuff.