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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
60 Seconds: 1 Minute
1 Million Seconds: 12 Days 1 Billion Seconds: 32 Years 1 Trillion Seconds: Just under 32 THOUSAND Years! In 1967 I would buy Wienershnitzle Kraut Dogs for .18 cents In 1964 people complained they had to pay $6 for a full day of the fabulous 1964 massive N.Y. Worlds Fair. To see a few of those SAME exhibits today, (Small World etc.) one needs to pay $60 for a day at Disneyland. A 1,000 percent increase. In 1956 we went to a Saturday matinee with two features, 5 cartoons and a Free Comic Book for .9 cents. In 1954 the Coney Island Wax Museum was 7 cents...as were the Roller Coasters...by 1957 it had gone up to Dime. next? Examples please NOT explainations...
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
In the mid 1960's, I could go to the store with a quarter, buy a 16 oz RC Cola for a dime, two candy bars for a nickel each, and five pieces of penny candy, and if you paid for them in smaller groups, never spending more than 12 cents in a single sale, there was no tax. In addition, the bottle cap had a cork seal and you could scrape it out and you may possibly win some money, if it showed something underneath. The most common winning was 10 cents, which I hit many times, and which allowed you to buy another RC Cola to be used for a belching contest with your friends, and the chance to win some more "cork" money.
During that same time period, my $2.00 a week profit from my paper route on Saturday would net me a new magic trick from Ray's Hobby Shop, and from HiLo Grocer, the current Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, a TV dinner, a pop, and some penny candy, all in preparation to watch the Acri Creature Feature on Saturday night.
~michael baker
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ClintonMagus Inner circle Southwestern Southeast 3997 Posts |
However, in 1899, phone calls were fifty cents a minute!
Things are more like they are today than they've ever been before...
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CJRichard Special user Massachusetts 542 Posts |
1983 Louis Tannen catalog (#14 with a young David Copperfield on the cover)
Set of three large copper cups $17 Johnson Okito coin box, brass, $8.50 Fantasio appearing cane $15 UF Grant Hippity-Hop Rabbits $25 Polished aluminum Zombie $16
"You know some of you are laughin', but there's people here tryin' to learn. . ." -Pop Haydn
"I know of no other art that proclaims itself 'easy to do.'" -Master Payne Ezekiel the Green |
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EsnRedshirt Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts |
I remember when paperback books were around $5 each, and arcade games were only a quarter...
Yeah, I guess I'm not that old after all. -Erik (day 27)
Self-proclaimed Jack-of-all-trades and google expert*.
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NicholasD Inner circle 1458 Posts |
The first McDonald's hamburger a ever bought was l6 cents. In 1965, gas was 35 cents a gallon. Oh, and my salary was $3,600.00 annually.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Every time I make change for someone that has a nickel and a dime in it, I hear the following;
"Fifteen cents, a nickel and a dime. At Burger Chef you eat better every time. A nickel and a dime will get... french fried potatoes, thick milk shake, and the greatest fifteen cent hamburger yet!"
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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CJRichard Special user Massachusetts 542 Posts |
I'm pretty sure I remember the first class postage rate changing from 4 cents to 5 cents. The five cent stamp, I think, was a blue one with George Washington on it. I certainly remember the change from 5 cents to 6 cents.
We bought our stamps at the corner drug store where I also bought comic books. I usually could only buy the 10 cent comics, but once in a while I'd save up (or skip a few candy bars) and get a jumbo 25 cent comic. (I loved the ad for the Johnson-Smith company in the comic books.)
"You know some of you are laughin', but there's people here tryin' to learn. . ." -Pop Haydn
"I know of no other art that proclaims itself 'easy to do.'" -Master Payne Ezekiel the Green |
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magicgeorge Inner circle Belfast 4299 Posts |
When I was 8 the Beano was 10p. I'm 31 and it's about 80p.
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
In 1989 chicken farms would happily give you as many dead chicken heads as you wanted and be glad to be saved the trouble of disposing of them.
Now they charge $5.50 a kilo. Outrageous! Destiny |
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
In 1979 I bought my first serious electric guitar--a Fender Stratocaster--for $675.
Last fall I bought a Fender Squire Telecaster (a Squire Strat would have cost the same)for €158. In my opinion, this new instrument is of higher quality than the 1979 one. I bought my first serious PC--an Apple Macintosh (not the fat Mac, but the original one with 128K ram)--for around $3,000. The new PC I bought for Christmas cost me about 500 bucks, and is probably, without exaggeration--some 1,000 time more powerful. I have my beer delivered directly to my front door, and I pay about a buck a liter for first-class, highest-quality, organically produced hefeweizen. I used to pay more in the States twenty years ago for horse pee pee. Here in Europe you can buy Gallo jug wine quality wine for, again, about a buck per liter. I don't even remember what Gallo jug wine used to cost, because I paid more for fancier stuff, stuff I pay no more than four to five Euros per bottle for these days. I have a sweet tooth, and I pay about $3.00 a KILO for my gummy bears. My favorite local Italian Ice cream dealer charges me €.50 a scoop. I paid more for Baskin Robins twenty years ago, and this is REAL Italian gelato, made right there in the store by a guy named Giuseppe. So, it's not ALL bad.... And Destiny, can you imagine what you'd have to pay for a kilo of LIVE chicken heads? Jeff |
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
No idea but if I need any I'll order them from the discount capital of the civilised world - Göttingen!
Destiny |
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
I don't remember 10 cent comics. I remember 12 cent ones and 25 cent annuals.
In my opinion, comics have gotten a lot better. This would have to count as a second silver age.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
My first Pocket Calculator was in 1974...Texas Instruments and it cost $250.
I got one the other that flys light years around it for 99 cents. Hmmm.
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Scott Compton Special user Hampton, VA 747 Posts |
.10 would get a coke(or RC) and a moon pie. I couldn't reach the slot to put the money in, but Cliff, who owned the gas station, would put it in for me while I would wait for it to come out of the slot. You didn't select anything - it was just cokes in the small bottles. A nickel would come out of the change slot and I would give it to Cliff. He would put it in the cash register and get me a moon pie out or the glass case mounted on the wall.
First trick I bought myself was a Chinese Egg Bag $2.50 from Johnson Smith. Next was a Zombie ball for $7.50 First computer in 1995 Packard Bell 75Mhz processor - $1700 on sale Day 29/31
Magic is an art. I am merely a tour guide.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scott-Compton-Magician/160270640674735 "You are the magic" Jay Ose to Albert Goshman |
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CJRichard Special user Massachusetts 542 Posts |
I was a senior in high school a year after Doug got his first TI calculator. A math wiz in my class bought the latest TI scientific calculator at the beginning of the school year for something over $250.
Just about each week the teacher would taunt him with the latest price drop, "Nelson, this week it's down to $239." "Nelson, this week it's $219." I don't remember if it dropped to less than $100 by June or not, but Nelson got a quick lesson in how fast technology was progressing. Our computer project that year was punching cards to get a Wang computer half the size of a closet to solve simple math equations.
"You know some of you are laughin', but there's people here tryin' to learn. . ." -Pop Haydn
"I know of no other art that proclaims itself 'easy to do.'" -Master Payne Ezekiel the Green |
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
Noatalgia ain't what it used to be is it guys?
(I remember a time when people GOT that joke!)
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
My first VCR in 1978 was $1500. Got one as a backup a couple of months ago for $29.
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CJRichard Special user Massachusetts 542 Posts |
I hope you didn't get Beta, like a guy I worked with. After a few years there was one store in the region with about a dozen videos he could rent.
"You know some of you are laughin', but there's people here tryin' to learn. . ." -Pop Haydn
"I know of no other art that proclaims itself 'easy to do.'" -Master Payne Ezekiel the Green |
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Josh the Superfluous Inner circle The man of 1881 Posts |
WANG computers donated a small computer to my school. We kept it in the computer room. The student programming it, sat out side the room, because the computer filled the computer room. There was a keyboard and a printer, no monitor.
What do you want in a site? "Honesty, integrity and decency." -Mike Doogan
"I hate it, I hate my ironic lovechild. I didn't even have anything to do with it" Josh #2 |
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