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My single biggest requirement for a retirement location, is one such as you have described. Old school small city.
Anyway, the main thing I wanted to point out was that we can't compare prices of other times without also taking into account the purchasing power of the dollar in that era. It's not like we were making the amount of dollars we make today back when prices were much lower. When prices were much lower, wages were also much lower. Maybe overall people lived better then, but maybe not. It's harder to compare than just looking at the prices.
XL, Medium, Minimax, Mini, Blackstone, WSM
XL 6/06, Mini 6/12, L 10/12, Mini #2 12/14 MiniMax 3/16 Large #2 11/20 Legacy from my FIL - RIP
Tampa Bay, FL
EIB 6 Oct 95
As for color TV, our first was a Zenith on July 4, 1976 so we could watch the Tall Ships.
I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!
MichaelLarge - Roswell rig, MiniMax-PS Woo; Cocoa, Fl.
Large and Medium BGE, Kamado Joe Jr, Akorn Jr, big effin' pellet smoker, gas grill, fire pit, FireDisk, pack of angry cats, two turntables and a microphone, my friend. Registered republican.
"If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful."
1st summer job, '68, started at $5/hr, went to 5.50 when I got into the union. Around $40/hr in today's $. Interest on any savings account was about 4%.
@gdenby during ‘64 got a job packing groceries at local grocery store, paid $0.80 per hour. Thought I was rich! During the summer, worked full time, 6 days a week, 8 hour days, take home was $35.71 for 48 hours. Parents encouraged savings and after a couple of years when I turned 16 bought a car. Life was good, simple, but good.
Not to get technical, but according to chemistry alcohol is a solution...
Large & Small BGE
Stockton Ca.
XL BGE - S BGE - KJ Jr - HB Legacy - BS Pizza Oven - 30" Firepit - King Kooker Fryer - PR72T - WSJ - BS 17" Griddle - XXL BGE - Akron Jr - BS SS36" Griddle
There were lots of factory jobs, all unionized, where I lived, although they were already starting to fade. Generally several times above minimum, good to great benefits, but often harder than hell. Last place I worked, management understood there was a strike likely at the next round of negotiations, so they were running the plant 24/7. Lots of overtime, but everything and everyone was breaking down. Whole lines would sit idle for 6 hours why the mechanics tried to get things running. Then the next shift would get worked to make up. One day, instead of having to lift an 80 lb sheet of steel over my head 600 times, they cranked up the tempo to 900. I still have a scar on my thigh where the sheet of steel grazed it cause I couldn't turn fast enough to heave it up. One line did 1200 pieces a day, tho' the weight was only about 15 lbs.
There was one good thing. There was a tavern just cross the street. I'd sprint the 1000' from where I worked to it for lunch, get a bowl of the best goulash for .35, down it, and make the dash back. And at the end of my shift, there was a guy playin' one hell of a blues guitar in a house down the block.
Two things I remember was that bread was 10 for $1 and so was Zip dog food.I stacked mountains of Zip.