...A big house in a nice neighbourhood with a view was $20,000. ...A brand new Ferrari was $10,000. ...Men had more hair on top of their head than on their face. ...People's clothes fit them.
The baggy clothes style where started by inmates that didnt wear belts when released from jail. cigarettes where 1.00 a pack Gas was .99 a gal Pontiac Trans-am was 9k A used Dodge dart was $500.00 Teenagers looked like teens instead of adults. people didn't bring guns to a fist fight.
You could mail a letter for less than a nickel. The Milkman delivered milk and butter to your door every morning. He took the empty glass bottles away to be reused. We collected milk bottle caps. They were cardboard. There was a Bakery truck like the Ice Cream Man that made the neighborhood rounds. When we first moved in, our phone was a party line. There were no zip codes for letters. TV was only black and white. There were less than 20 kids in my class and I knew all their names. I had to wind my watch every night. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(You me and da Pri @ Aug 6 2007, 11:58 AM) [snapback]491321[/snapback]</div> My Dad driving around to find a station that had premium for $0.19 a gallon. And you got a free glass with a fill up.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Aug 6 2007, 06:43 AM) [snapback]491306[/snapback]</div> And that house had only one phone (black) with a short cord, probably attached to a wall in the kitchen, with no area code, a less than 7 digit phone number and no push buttons. A black and white TV with no cable and no remote and three stations if you were lucky. One car garage. No microwave, coffee maker, toaster oven, cuisinart, blender, dishwasher, and garbage disposal. Light switches made noise when you turned the lights on and off and weren't dimmable. No air conditioning. Probably no wall to wall carpeting. You could wake up in the middle of the night and see no LEDs. How did we make it through that?
A Ti scientific calulator was $300 Gum came with cards and it was HARD Cracker Jacks had metal toys VW Bugs were everywhere....Slug Bug! The Chevy Vega was the best Detroit could do for the fuel crunch 1973 How Much things cost in 1965 Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.59% Average Cost of new house $13,600.00 Average Income per year $6,450.00 Gas per Gallon Petrol US 31 cents Average Cost of a new car $2,650.00 Loaf of bread 21 cents Average Rent per month $118.00 Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 969 Sony introduces it's Betamax video recorder Cost of Living 1970 Yearly Inflation Rate USA 5.84% Average Cost of new house $23,450.00 Average Income per year $9,400.00 Average Monthly Rent $140.00 Shaefer Pen $9.95 Gallon of Gas 36 cents United States postage Stamp 6 cents Sports Illustrated 15 cents Mans Westclox Watch $18.00 Dow Jones drops to 631 Cost of Living 1975 Yearly Inflation Rate USA 9.2% UK 24.2% Average Cost of new house $39,300.00 Average Income per year $14,100.00 Average Monthly Rent $200.00 Gas per Gallon 44 cents Average cost new car $4,250.00 Foster Grant Sun Glasses $5.00 Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop a BASIC program for the Altair 8800 Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 858 In 1980 a new house cost $68,714.00 and by 1989 was $120,00.00 In 1980 the average income per year was $19,170.00 and by 1989 was $27,210.00 In 1980 a gallon of gas was $1.19 and by 1989 was 97 cents In 1980 the average cost of new car was $7,210.00 and by 1989 was $15,400.00
High schools had dress codes... <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Essayons @ Aug 6 2007, 01:06 PM) [snapback]491372[/snapback]</div> A scientific calculator was a slide rule <_<
5 1/2" diskettes Dot matrix printers; fanfold paper Black-and-green monitors When 30 Meg hard drives came out, thinking "who could possibly ever use that much space?"
Going through a couple of invoices for Macs (it is because of me that Steve Jobs gets around these days in a Gulfstream!): October 1987: (1) Mac SE, 20 MB Hard Drive, 1 Meg RAM (way cool, because most PC's only could goto 640k), 9 inch B/W screen, 20 Mhz processor (the venerable 68020) for the out door price of $2,962.00. (2) Needed a printer too: Imagewriter 9 pin dot matrix, $507.74. (3) Later in Feb 1990 decided 20 MB of storage wasn't enough, upgraded to a whopping 80 megs for only $713.00. (4) And later on I upgraded to an unheard of 4 Megs of RAM for some ungodly price... I could go on and on (I got a file two inches think with computer related invoices), but you get the point. Remember we are talking late 80's and early 90's dollars (much more $ today). We are talking MHz in speed, not GHz, we are talking MB in storage, not GB. I cringe to think of what we will think of the archaic technology we are using today compared to 10 or 20 years into the future... Rick #4 2006
I remember when I got my first car, my dad said "So you think you can afford 27 cents for a gallon of GAS?" My first apartment in 1973 was $130 a month My condo in Alameda, CA cost $235,000 (in 1995) and sold for almost $700,000 4 years later My 3 year old home here in TX, is 4 times the size of the condo and cost less than $200,000 <lol> My VW SuperBeetle in 1973 cost $2600 My Pontiac Firebird in 1975 cost $5400 My Infiniti Q45 in 1992 cost almost $40000 My Mercedes E320 in 2000 cost $41000 .. and worst of all, I look at gas prices today and say "Gosh, I rmemeber when unleaded premium only cost $1.50 a gallon..." and it makes me feel nostalgic.
Hay was $2.50/bale (now it's $10) -- and that was two years ago (thanks, ethanol). You could afford movie popcorn and a Coke -- and they weren't giant fat people sized! People read on airplanes instead of watching a screen. Newspapers had the latest news. My butt was smaller. Tennis racquets were wooden and you had to keep them in a wooden press. My mother wore hat and gloves to church and other events; I had to wear these miserable little white gloves and a crunchy crinoline slip that stuck to my skin in the un-airconditioned world. You could hear quails and whippoorwills in the country. The frogs and crickets in town were LOUD. There were lots of fireflies. Dogs didn't wear seatbelts. People didn't wear seatbelts. There were no seatbelts. A man used to herd his goats from town to town. (late 1960s) There were no fire ants. You could play outside with no fear. There were sand dunes instead of condos at the beach. Giant sand dunes. And people didn't buy beach property because it wasn't valuable -- can't grow crops in sand! (My father's cousin bought several lots for a few hundred dollars!) Children entertained themselves with imaginative play instead of being enrolled in activities. Sunday was a day of rest. Not even the gas stations were open (except a few for travelers).
People thought that unleaded gas and CAFE standards would forever put an end to performance oriented vehicles. Car makers thought real Americans bought their vehicle by the pound. They blocked off the mixture adjustment screws on carburetors, and everybody got all upset. You couldn't put a bag of groceries on the front seat without fastening the seatbelt around it. Being arrested for driving drunk was something to joke about.
My wedding (back in 1964) cost under $500 including my dress, wedding cake, invitations & lunch for 110 guests. (No liquor at the reception since it was in the church basement - but the party afterwards was another story)
I remember President Kennedy's assassination, when the WORLD stopped in grief and sympathy. I remember the moon landing, when the WORLD cheered (and believed) and anything seemed possible. I remember Rev King's assassination, when the cities burned. I remember Sen Kennedy's assassination, when the young men and women wept. I remember the Kent State shootings, when the young men and women took to the streets with raised fists. I remember Nixon, who actually did turn out to be a crook, and Gerry Ford , and Jimmy Carter (Crisis in Iran, attack rabbits!) and Regan (let the bombing begin) and Dan Quayle, and more division and name calling, and special prosecutors, and THAT election result, and ... yes I remember the World Trade Center towers falling. And I also remember the WORLD stopped for a day in collective grief and sympathy, and waited for a sign from the US. And that opportunity to promote unity through shared understanding was thrown aside in a cynical bid for revenge and hegemony, and I've watched the increasingly bitter division of families and neighbors that followed. People can't seem to lay down their hatred anymore, I miss the people from "the old days", not the old days themselves.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(samiam @ Aug 6 2007, 05:21 PM) [snapback]491536[/snapback]</div> Very VERY well put! I remember when it was "Howdy Dooty Time" and for us that grew up in the Minneapolis/St. Paul broadcast area, there was "Axel and his Treehouse" and "Lunch with Casey Jones"
