showing your age...

[davidpizzica]

I don't remember what cigarette prices were in 1962 when I started, but I do remember that when I quit in 1982, they were up to .65 cents a pack which I thought was too high. I haven't smoked in 27 years!

[kokopup]

I dont remember the lowest price for cigarettes but I remenber 25 cent in the stores and 10 cent onboard ship while in the Navy.

I remember getting into the movie for 10 cents and not telling the truth about my age when I turned 11 so I didn't have to pay 18 cents.

quote by Willow Oaks

I used to wlk into Winn Dixie and buy a coke out of the coke machine for a nickel. Anybody remember that?

Williow Oaks, prices must have been much lower in Mississippi than they were in Alabama and Florida. I remember when they put the penny honor box on coke machines to raise the price to 6 cents. I was 8 at the time and you would not have been born for another 7 years. They finally went ahead and made them 10 cents when I was around 10 or 11. Back then the small coke bottle had the date and place it was made on the bottom of the bottle. We use to have a game to find the bottle from the furtherest place away.

[pomtzu]

I remember in elementary school when we had a milk break in the morning. You got a half pint of milk and it came in a little milk bottle (no cartons then), and it was 2 cents.

We had the savings bond program too. You had a book that you filled with savings stamps that you purchased, and when it was full, you cashed it in for a bond (whatever the denomination of the book you filled).

Sorry if I got off track here, but this thread brings back a lot of old memories.

[Medusa]

I remember in elementary school when we had a milk break in the morning. You got a half pint of milk and it came in a little milk bottle (no cartons then), and it was 2 cents.

We had the savings bond program too. You had a book that you filled with savings stamps that you purchased, and when it was full, you cashed it in for a bond (whatever the denomination of the book you filled).

Sorry if I got off track here, but this thread brings back a lot of old memories.

Yes, we had milk breaks, too. Milk was $.04 a bottle. And the savings bond program reminded me of S&H Green Stamps and later on Plaid Stamps. Remember those? They came in quite handy for trading in for household items to be given as wedding gifts. And do you recall being given glassware when you purchased gas? Some of it is selling at a premium now at antique stores.

[Willow Oak]

Yes, we had milk breaks, too. Milk was $.04 a bottle. And the savings bond program reminded me of S&H Green Stamps and later on Plaid Stamps. Remember those? They came in quite handy for trading in for household items to be given as wedding gifts. And do you recall being given glassware when you purchased gas? Some of it is selling at a premium now at antique stores.

You just opened up a whole can of worms. Gas stations? My memory fails me in many ways, but for some reason there is a snapshot image still in my mind of the Esso station and its 32 cents per gallon gas. And my dad complaining about the price of gas!

[Medusa]

Also, grocery stores gave a free book to a set of encyclopedias w/every order over a certain amount but I can't recall what amount. I acquired the entire set of encyclopedias that way from my parent's shopping. Funk and Wagnalls, I think. LOL That may have come later, I'm not sure.

[pomtzu]

Yes, we had milk breaks, too. Milk was $.04 a bottle. And the savings bond program reminded me of S&H Green Stamps and later on Plaid Stamps. Remember those? They came in quite handy for trading in for household items to be given as wedding gifts. And do you recall being given glassware when you purchased gas? Some of it is selling at a premium now at antique stores.

My Mom used to shop where they gave Green Stamps. I still have a set of pyrex mixing bowls that she got with them, and a locket too.

I remember the gas station glasses too. We had a set of really tall green glass ones, and Dad made rootbeer floats in them! That was always a big Saturday afternoon treat.

[Willow Oak]

I remember the gas station glasses too. We had a set of really tall green glass ones, and Dad made rootbeer floats in them! That was always a big Saturday afternoon treat.

Shut up! Root beer floats! I believe they were called "black cows."

I always have a Texas gallon of ice cream in the fridge and a six pack of coke (in bottles only) so that I can make a coke float about every other day.

[Medusa]

Root beer floats make me think of my ex-husband. He LOVED those things!

[pomtzu]

Shut up! Root beer floats! I believe they were called "black cows."

I was born and raised in New England, and they were just "floats" up there. I think you native southerners called them "cows".

[Kfamr]

Oh man, it scares me to think if prices have inflated this high since you lot were my age, how high will they be another 20-30 years from now? Scary.

My parents were telling me when they went to buy their first home (some 25+ years ago) it cost them $27,000ish. They were freaking out wondering how they were to afford it. Now, all the houses I look at under $100,000 are run down and need a ton of work, can't get a loan on them, etc.

[pomtzu]

Back in the early 60's when my ex and I were first married, we rented a place that had a kerosene furnace, and paid 18 cents per gallon for the fuel. We were appalled when it climbed to 43 cents.

[Medusa]

I can see this thread lasting forever. LOL

When my first husband and I were married in the mid-60's, we had a Renault Dauphin and seeing that we were living on an airman's pay, we put $.50 into that thing and drove for what seemed like weeks. Our rent was a whopping $75 a month for off base housing and people thought we were uppity! LOL