A nickel could get a pack of baseball (Beatles too) cards with bubblegum inside OR if you didn't have enough, a penney might get a Beatles pin in those turn crank things at front of stores....or just get some Pixi stix
I love the conversations about 8 burgers for $1...being born in late '69, I'm amazed how affordable things were then...5 cents for Beatles or baseball cards!?!? I pay $2-3 now for packs...I was born to late...
My friends and I would find bottles on the ground then take them to a store and get a few cents which we would then spend on baseball cards and candy. We learned about money.
Woo, I used to to the same looking for bottles since I was ten - they were building new homes in my area and also doing a new road -- the best were "the wooden crates" from coke - that would be $5.00
Woo, you got it! What was expensive then--and now? Well Billboard was 50 cents in 1965 and $20 a year. THAT was big money. Record Beat was only 25, Hit Parader, etc 35 at most, but Billboard was expensive.
MOM WHIG...absolutely...I always say my parents were lucky to be around when all this great music originally came out.
WLSClark...3.98 for the mono...and 4.98 for the stereo...even more for the 4 or 8-track...and now Billboard costs about $8.99 or $9.99 an issue!...
I think I bought 'The Beatles Second Album' in mono for $1.99 at a store called Korvette's. Stereo would have been $2.99 and now I know it was fake stereo so I made the right choice.
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David in California:
On the other hand, minimum wage in 1965 was $1.25, so a dollar was harder to come by.
Mom, that was what was cool about working with Bob Irwin starting in 1990 and Sundazed. It was like returning to childhood while working a daily grind job.
Eric R....I know...and new vinyl, which is usually just overcompressed digital masters, cost anywhere from $20-40!!!...ridiculous...
David in California...hi...my Dad tells me about working for a buck twenty five an hour delivering chicken, but, he liked having a job...
WLSClark...I can remember buying 45's for $1.29...and cheaper for oldies and cut-outs...
MOM WHIG...absolutely...those were good times...
...and hi Gaylord...
SF, my school teacher my first year in Lincoln (1971 high school) asked me why I left Dodge, I said "The marshall gave me till noon to get out of town."
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Mom, we got frozen cokes and qtr lber meal--19.50! Can you believe a meal for 2 from Maco's cost $20???
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I can actually check and see if I have what you need, but they belong to him now.
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An Anthem of the 60's!
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WLSClark...3.98 for the mono...and 4.98 for the stereo...even more for the 4 or 8-track...and now Billboard costs about $8.99 or $9.99 an issue!...
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You and Eric and Clark know what I mean.
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David in California...hi...my Dad tells me about working for a buck twenty five an hour delivering chicken, but, he liked having a job...
WLSClark...I can remember buying 45's for $1.29...and cheaper for oldies and cut-outs...
MOM WHIG...absolutely...those were good times...
...and hi Gaylord...
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