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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm young enough to remember those days. Just the other day I bought a Hershey bar for my granddaughter, 96 cents with tax. Not only that, they have changed to a silver wrapper and I couldn't even find them. I'm not against change, but that slide off brown wrapper worked just fine.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am not quite old enough to remember 5 cent candy bars, but I was able to get a 12oz soda and a 5oz bag of chips for 26 cents and an empty soda bottle. For you youngsters that is 15 cent for the soda, 10 cent for the chips, 1 cent tax and the empty soda bottle so we would not have to pay a deposit on the one we were buying. I hear that some states still do the deposit thing even on cans and plastic bottles.
Heck, I had a nice little business going on just picking up empties from the side of the road. Got a whole penny for each one of them. hunted them down every day after school and when the weekends rolled around man it was on then. In the summer months I could earn as much as 4 or 5 dollars a month with those things. Big money in 1970 for a 9 year old. I would go to mall ( I laugh when I say that , but that is a whole other story ) with my mom after a big sale and for a buck and 4 cent I could get 10 comics. Man how I loved to read the ghost ones.
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The good ole "return for deposit" bottles! I miss those. When I was a kid, I could walk to the store and find enough bottles on the road to buy a pop. Good times.  Great article, by the way. I enjoyed reading it, but now back to reality.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Being on the rather old side I too remember the good old days. HOWEVER, I also remember that although a nickel could buy a really large candy bar, I also remember that it took a lot longer to make a nickel. Back in those good old days people were payed a lot, lot less so things cost a lot, lot less. Yes a car could cost in the hundreds for new car but then how long did it take a person to make a hundred dollars? Don't know why but eveyone I know that is old remembers how cheap things USED to be. But for some reason they forget how hard it was to make a pennie. OOPPPS. A CENT.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I made 70 cents an hour at my first job. I soon got a new job that paid $1.40 an hour. I remember thinking, if only I could made $1.60.........
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I made 70 cents an hour at my first job. I soon got a new job that paid $1.40 an hour. I remember thinking, if only I could made $1.60.........
When I was a kid to make money we used to go through all the alleys for bottles that had a deposit on them. Also, delivered newspapers but it took about 10 of them to make one cent. Took a long, long time to acquire a little wealth. There was a coin store not far from me. In the window one day there was a plate with 10 1916D Mercury dimes in it for $1.50 each. Now that was a small fortune back then. Still to this day I don't know where I got the money but I purchased all of them and still have them. Imagine at $0.02 cents a bottle for deposit how many bottles it would take to buy those. |
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United States
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just carl... 750 bottles. before tax!  |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Funny enough, but the column first appeared in 1968, back during my childhood, when, yes, you could still get a nickle chocolate bar, and it was half the size of what you get now for a buck.
While going through some papers at my mother's house after her death, I found a small bundle of my father's old paystubs. In 1968, he was operating a front end loader for Crown Zellerbach at their Port Mann location in the Vancouver area. He was a union member and was receiving the top wage of $2.85/hour.
Mind you, back then you could fill up your gas tank for around $6.00; a pound of hamburger was .59 and a package of cigarettes was .69; the average chocolate bar was a dime, and a bottle of Coke was .15; comic books had just gone up to .15, and it only cost .06 to mail a letter.
Compare the wages with the cost of the items, and I'm sure you'll find that they are comparable today, the numbers in the prices are just higher, that's all.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Mind you, back then you could fill up your gas tank for around $6.00; a pound of hamburger was .59 and a package of cigarettes was .69; the average chocolate bar was a dime, and a bottle of Coke was .15; comic books had just gone up to .15, and it only cost .06 to mail a letter.
Not the good old days at all. Those are recent prices to me. I'm in the .23/pack for ciggs, .32/gal of gas, coke was .10 and postage was .02 age group. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You mean the good old days when your dad would come home from the bank with rolls of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters & halves and you would pull out indians,buffalo,mercurys,barbers and walkers!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You mean the good old days when your dad would come home from the bank with rolls of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters & halves and you would pull out indians,buffalo,mercurys,barbers and walkers!
Obviously your not old enough. When I was a kid that is all there was. Indian Head cents in change was common, Buffalo nickels were basically all there was, Mercury Head and Liberty Head and even Sitting Liberty Dimes were common. Naturally when I was a kid there was no such thing yet as Roosevelt dimes nor Ben Franklin halves. |
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United States
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I was born in 1970  swcoin.ecrater.com
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I was born in 1970
I was already old then. One more thing is those Silver Dollars. When I was a kid they were being used all the time in just change. I used to spend them all the time. |
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United States
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I remember going to Winkys and getting a burger,fries and a coke for a quarter......I miss Winkys
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