A few more oldies...
Jan 25, 2023 21:22:46 #
Jan 25, 2023 21:23:16 #
Ava'sPapa wrote:
I quit smoking in '81. How much are cigarettes now $10 or so a PACK ?
The last time I was in Manhattan in 2017 a pack was $16. Nuts!!
I walked into a bar late one night in 1969 to get a pack of cigarettes from a machine. It was 50 cents. I said to myself “this is ridiculous” and quit smoking.
Jan 25, 2023 21:23:22 #
Jan 25, 2023 21:25:03 #
Sendai5355 wrote:
I was planning to buy a new 1967 Ford Mustang fastback but my plan was interrupted when I received orders to go to a land far far away.
Thank you for your service.
Jan 25, 2023 21:25:50 #
Charles Whittier wrote:
1967 I traveled to Alaska with my mother and father (he worked on the Alaska Highway during the war). When we crossed the boarder from Canada to Alaska the gas was $1.00 dollar a gallon at a Texaco station. They pumped the gas into a large glass container on top of the pump and then let it drain by gravity into your tank.
Jan 25, 2023 21:26:59 #
hookedupin2005 wrote:
Shoot! Back in the day, my carseat was a bananna box!
And you're still alive.
Jan 25, 2023 21:28:27 #
Fredrick wrote:
The last time I was in Manhattan in 2017 a pack was $16. Nuts!!
I walked into a bar late one night in 1969 to get a pack of cigarettes from a machine. It was 50 cents. I said to myself “this is ridiculous” and quit smoking.
I walked into a bar late one night in 1969 to get a pack of cigarettes from a machine. It was 50 cents. I said to myself “this is ridiculous” and quit smoking.
Best move we ever made. Right?!
Jan 25, 2023 22:03:42 #
Ava'sPapa wrote:
Best move we ever made. Right?!
We’re still kickin’
Jan 25, 2023 22:40:30 #
Jan 25, 2023 23:50:24 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
Ava'sPapa wrote:
Ah...VW's...I could go on for quite a while. I suppose most of us could.
The only car I've ever owned that had so little power I went off a 2 lane road on the left shoulder when I simply couldn't get through the bow wave of a semi I was trying to pass before oncoming traffic got me - there was no oncoming traffic when I started to pass. Happened twice while I owned the thing. (It was a 1963, which I think was the first year they had a gas gauge instead of a reserve tank. Cost $1500 new, fully equipped with a sunroof, AM/FM pushbutton radio and an outside mirror.)
It did get me through 5 years of college in the winters of New Hampshire and Michigan, with no real costs besides gas, tires and routine maintenance, but I've never been so glad to get rid of a car as when I sold that thing. And I never looked at a VW anything in the 50+ years since.
Jan 26, 2023 09:35:24 #
Ava'sPapa wrote:
I quit smoking in '81. How much are cigarettes now $10 or so a PACK ?
My father died in '80 of lung cancer. He had smoked since his teens.
After he died I gave up. I had smoked since my teens. I had help. By that time I smoked a pipe. I rode a motorcycle. Some guy ran a stop sign and T-boned me. Broke my hip. Spent 6 weeks in traction. The hot ashes from my pipe kept dropping on my chest so I gave up. (You could smoke in the hospital in those days). That method was effective but I don't recommend it.
The cigarette companies used to pass out 5-pack samples. In the schools. The lowest price I recall for a full 20-pack was $0.15. At that time we could get a cheese sandwich and a coke for $0.25.
Jan 26, 2023 16:46:34 #
crushr13
Loc: Sacramento, CA
Yeah, that third one at the gas pump must have been taken in prehistoric times.
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