Are you old enough to remember when................

[IronDog]

I recall gasoline at 17 cents a gallon,Nickle Cokes,Get in the movie theater for 12 cents.Overseas a carton of Luckys cost me a buck.My wife and I could fill a grocery cart for 25-30 bucks.Saying damn was about the only thing you could get away with in the movies.T.V. was just coming out,and all we had was a radio for entertainment.
I recall having WWII vets for D.I.'s,and they could run my sorry arse into the ground!I recall fighting in a war that wasn't a war,and asking myself why is all this toejame happening?The good old days,yessir I recall them well.
ID

[Melvin]

I recall gasoline at 17 cents a gallon,Nickle Cokes,Get in the movie theater for 12 cents.Overseas a carton of Luckys cost me a buck.My wife and I could fill a grocery cart for 25-30 bucks.Saying damn was about the only thing you could get away with in the movies.T.V. was just coming out,and all we had was a radio for entertainment.
I recall having WWII vets for D.I.'s,and they could run my sorry arse into the ground!I recall fighting in a war that wasn't a war,and asking myself why is all this toejame happening?The good old days,yessir I recall them well.
ID

You sound like a Man that I used to know.

Salute sir,
         Melvin

[Dichotomy]

yep  and thank you sir

[mbailey]

When I first got my drivers license, gas was at .59 a gal. Smokes were .75 a pack ( I said I would never pay and was furious when they jumped to 1.50 shortly after )

  BigMac actualy tasted better than the crap they put out now.

Big Macs in the styrofoam clamshell container    Oh and the deep fried apple pies that would give you 3rd degree burns on the roof of your mouth, man they were awesome!!  I remember the coke bottle vending machines, gas not so much ( born in '71 ) Penny candy ruled!!  .25cent candy bars, cracked plastic steering wheels in the cars from the 70s lol,

Great thread  

[Nutzoid]

I can remember gas at around 15 cents a gallon and about 10 or 12 years later, cigarettes were 35 cents.

[TeeArr]

I can remember Minimum wage at $1.30/hr.
I can remember picking strawberries at 2 cents a pint/20cents a flat.
I can remember going to "Bob's 15 cent Hamburgers" and my friend Steve and I eating a hamburger each .30, a shake each .50 and splitting a small Fry for .20.  One buck would buy both of us lunch   (There was no sales tax in Oregon).
I can remember seeing The Sound of Music, Patton, and Kelly's Heroes, Tora Tora Tora, The Battle of Britain, and Midway in the Theatre.
I can remember a time before Jane Fonda was a traitor.

[JBall]

As I recall, my first job at the local airport was selling Avgas 100LL for 79.9 cents a gallon...and a Cessna 150 rented for $16 per hour, Instructor added $6 per hour. Those were the days!

[bmwgs]

I recall gasoline at 17 cents a gallon,Nickle Cokes,Get in the movie theater for 12 cents.Overseas a carton of Luckys cost me a buck.My wife and I could fill a grocery cart for 25-30 bucks.Saying damn was about the only thing you could get away with in the movies.T.V. was just coming out,and all we had was a radio for entertainment.
I recall having WWII vets for D.I.'s,and they could run my sorry arse into the ground!I recall fighting in a war that wasn't a war,and asking myself why is all this toejame happening?The good old days,yessir I recall them well.
ID

I must be from the same era.  I remember going to the corner gas station and getting a hot dog and coke for a nickle.   

Fred

[TeeArr]

Oh, and I can remember "duck and cover" drills in school.
And I can remember the PT-109 tie clip Senator Kennedy threw during the parade in my home town when he ran for President.
And I can remember where I was when President Kennedy was shot and killed.

[ROX]

Gas was 29.9 at the Texaco station in Cairo. IL...everywhere else from Waukegan, IL to Booneville, Miss. it was 36.9.  It was Highway 45 from home to there and back.

Penny candy....yes...two quarters got you a small paper bag full of sugar buzz for 4 days.

Ice cold Pepsi, Coke, Mt Dew, Choclit Soldier, Dr Pepper, in the old stand-up coolers with double lid handles and an opener on the side.

You could get 4 FULL SIZED candy bars (not the chincy sized now) for a buck.

A Pepsi & "Nabs" was lunch.  Everyone put Spanish Peanuts in their Coke.  You could get 3 songs on the jukebox for a quarter.  

Places had to put gas prices and milk prices on different signs because the price was so close.  Every kid had a flat-top haircut, wore short sleeved shirts and wore blue jeans with a 3" cuff at the bottom.  Mom's and grandmothers had the old "peddle it with your own feet" sewing machine...and washed clothes with the old "hand crank" stand up washer (electric if they were lucky).  Everyone had a outdoor clothesline.

Everyone had the Gulf gas station orange horse-shoes on their back window and Sinclair gas stations gave out an inflatable "Dino" the dinasaur toy with every fill-up.  Texaco had discounts on red fire engine toys with every fillup.

TV was in "Living Color"(but we didn't get one until 1970)...but that didn't make the tv news on the "growing" problem of Viet Nam any easier to watch.  Green Hornet, Batman, Lost in Space, That Girl, Bewitched, Red Skelton, Carol Burnett, and (ugh) Lawrence welk....but then there was Ed Sullivan (Elvis & The Beatles), and My Favorite Martian.  My fav was the Jack Benny Show because he was from my hometown and the first 2 years of Star Trek.

Apollo 1 My kindergarten teacher cried--and so did we.  Apollo 8 was at Christmas and was definitely moving.  Sitting and watching Apollo 11 "LIVE" and the Armstrong first step was surreal for a 9 year old.

Oh...and Mc Donalds didnt have seating...none...you went up, ordered at a window and took it back to the station wagon and ate it hot---just don't spill anything or daddy would take a cherry switch to your backside.

Gawd....I a phreeking OLD.


ROX

[uptown]

Falstaff beer. I remember gas was like .50 cents. I remember when gas was rationed. You could only get gas on a odd on even day, depending on what # your license plate ended in.
Walter Cronkite reading the wounded and killed report on the CBS evening news during Nam. I remember all that talk about a cease fire and thinking, "wow that must be some big fire"  

Green stamps at the grocery store

[Guppy35]

I remember 17.9 as the lowest for gas.  That, and they checked the oil, washed the windows and gave you stuff for buying the gas.  Getting a quarter from Grandpa and going next door to the little store in town and getting two candy bars and change.

Seems like we got 15 cents to spend after little league games and that got something to drink and a pack of baseball cards.

99 cent model airplanes were good too

[Melvin]

Wow, some old timers checkin in on this one.

Perhaps we should be nicer to the squeekers. 

[DaCoon]

I can remember when I was 13 going to the corner store with $1.  I would get a 10oz. Coke, 2 candy bars, and 7 pieces of gum and still have change.

Gas was about 75-80 cents a gallon and my parents cigs were .65 cents a pack.

You could get a sno-ball in a 32oz. cup for 40-50 cents depending on which stand you went to.

Been a long time since we saw those kinda prices. Never gonna see 'em again though.        

[FelixSteiner]

Oh and I also remember the battle of Konnigratz...