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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 16, 2021 15:40:26 GMT -5
Defer to the guys who lived through it over any conflicts, but about three bucks jibes with stories my dad tells of spending his lunch money on rock and roll records while his mother worried over his eternal soul. Three bucks for lunch money? Your dad was livin' high off the hog!  |
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Post by Confessor on Mar 16, 2021 16:44:20 GMT -5
Yes, that was most definitely a double album. I never saw it split into two. And, yeah, even $8.99 would have been a deal for it: The Beatles? 30 songs? (And those songs?) When a new record might have cost up to $3.99? It was an event, trust me. Double albums were really rare. Blonde on Blonde was a double album (Maybe 1966 or'67?), but heck, even movie soundtracks and Broadway shows were just one album. A couple of years later, Woodstock came out as a three-record set! That was another big moment. I forget what that cost, but it was another one we played to death. June '66. Double albums seemed to become more prevalent in the 70s. The Allman Brothers put out a number. And Bitches Brew...mmmmm...Miles Davis. The Allman Brothers' Eat A Peach is one of my favourite double albums. |
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Post by impulse on Mar 16, 2021 17:07:30 GMT -5
Defer to the guys who lived through it over any conflicts, but about three bucks jibes with stories my dad tells of spending his lunch money on rock and roll records while his mother worried over his eternal soul. Three bucks for lunch money? Your dad was livin' high off the hog! I think that was food money for the whole week if I have it straight. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 16, 2021 17:41:57 GMT -5
Three bucks for lunch money? Your dad was livin' high off the hog! I think that was food money for the whole week if I have it straight. I figured that.  Still a good little haul. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2021 17:54:04 GMT -5
So had to have a contractor out here today to reinstall the screen door on the back of the house, as a gust of wind ripped it off the house pulling the boards it was attached to in the frame off the house while the door was propped open to let the dog come back in last week. Ooh the joys of home ownership!
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Post by impulse on Mar 16, 2021 20:14:42 GMT -5
I think that was food money for the whole week if I have it straight. I figured that. Still a good little haul. Way I understood it he was dirt poor and dropping three bucks on a record was a heavy blow. This was college and grocery money I think. Not just grade school lunch. If three bucks was a lot of grocery money at the time then I’m sure I’ve misunderstood something. I guess I don’t know as much about the 60s as I thought! |
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Post by impulse on Mar 16, 2021 20:17:17 GMT -5
So had to have a contractor out here today to reinstall the screen door on the back of the house, as a gust of wind ripped it off the house pulling the boards it was attached to in the frame off the house while the door was propped open to let the dog come back in last week. Ooh the joys of home ownership! -M Dare I say... that blows.  But seriously, money pit. We just had a plumber out to replace the hot water heater and various other things while they were here. Thankfully we’ve already received our stimulus money which is promptly supporting the local economy. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 16, 2021 21:50:44 GMT -5
I figured that. Still a good little haul. Way I understood it he was dirt poor and dropping three bucks on a record was a heavy blow. This was college and grocery money I think. Not just grade school lunch. If three bucks was a lot of grocery money at the time then I’m sure I’ve misunderstood something. I guess I don’t know as much about the 60s as I thought! Well, three bucks bought you 25 comics, so yeah, it was a nice chunk of change. Minimum wage in 1965 was a buck and a quarter, so it would be like having close to 20 bucks today. Of course, three dollars would also have bought you about nine or ten gallons of gas. Today it might get you a bit more than one. All relative, to an extent. |
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Post by impulse on Mar 17, 2021 9:18:41 GMT -5
Yikes. 25 comics these days would be about $75-100. Interesting how relative costs change so differently over time. Thanks for the historical context. I imagine someone at the time would fall over if they saw what fancier grocery stores charge for half a gallon of milk.
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 17, 2021 9:44:22 GMT -5
Way I understood it he was dirt poor and dropping three bucks on a record was a heavy blow. This was college and grocery money I think. Not just grade school lunch. If three bucks was a lot of grocery money at the time then I’m sure I’ve misunderstood something. I guess I don’t know as much about the 60s as I thought! Well, three bucks bought you 25 comics, so yeah, it was a nice chunk of change. Minimum wage in 1965 was a buck and a quarter, so it would be like having close to 20 bucks today. Of course, three dollars would also have bought you about nine or ten gallons of gas. Today it might get you a bit more than one. All relative, to an extent. Lord how times have changed. I grew up with $1.99 comic books(?) and the same for gas then I don't know what happened, but prices just ballooned |
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Post by impulse on Mar 17, 2021 9:48:37 GMT -5
Well, three bucks bought you 25 comics, so yeah, it was a nice chunk of change. Minimum wage in 1965 was a buck and a quarter, so it would be like having close to 20 bucks today. Of course, three dollars would also have bought you about nine or ten gallons of gas. Today it might get you a bit more than one. All relative, to an extent. Lord how times have changed. I grew up with $1.99 comic books(?) and the same for gas then I don't know what happened, but prices just ballooned Gas just just under a dollar when I started driving. I could throw the loose change in my car at enough gas to get to school and back in a day. I want to say comics were around a buck fifty? Maybe two? When I first collected? I don't remember. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Mar 17, 2021 9:54:22 GMT -5
Lord how times have changed. I grew up with $1.99 comic books(?) and the same for gas then I don't know what happened, but prices just ballooned Gas just just under a dollar when I started driving. I could throw the loose change in my car at enough gas to get to school and back in a day. I want to say comics were around a buck fifty? Maybe two? When I first collected? I don't remember. First comic I bought was a quarter. The lowest I remember gas was my Mom paying 29 cents a gallon. I started driving in 1982 which was the point at which gas prices pretty much hit their peak after the oil embargo and all those shenanigans. That was about $1.29 a gallon. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 17, 2021 9:59:06 GMT -5
Yikes. 25 comics these days would be about $75-100. Interesting how relative costs change so differently over time. Thanks for the historical context. I imagine someone at the time would fall over if they saw what fancier grocery stores charge for half a gallon of milk. A gallon of milk in 1965 was around $1.05. When I worked at a gas station (started in '71), our Esso Extra was 41.9 a gallon. I made $1.65 an hour. That translated (before taxes) into about four gallons of the good stuff and, because comics had gone to 15 cents, at least 11 comics. (The regular was 36.9, btw, and Esso Plus was 40.9.) Even if you're making ten bucks an hour today, well, you can see how costs have outrun the minimum wage. You ain't getting 11 comics or four gallons of gas. This is why when my uncle or my grandfather would slip me four shiny new quarters, I was like a pig in slop. That's eight comics. Eight. Nobody ever got to buy eight comics at a time. I felt like a millionaire. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 17, 2021 10:05:30 GMT -5
Gas just just under a dollar when I started driving. I could throw the loose change in my car at enough gas to get to school and back in a day. I want to say comics were around a buck fifty? Maybe two? When I first collected? I don't remember. First comic I bought was a quarter. The lowest I remember gas was my Mom paying 29 cents a gallon. I started driving in 1982 which was the point at which gas prices pretty much hit their peak after the oil embargo and all those shenanigans. That was about $1.29 a gallon. When the embargo started in '73, we had fights in front of the pumps, a knife flashed once, another guy lighting matches and trying to fling them at some guy he accused of cutting in front of him on the line in the street, and loud proclamations that sixty cents a gallon was a crime, and that they would never pay a dollar a gallon for gas. How'd that work out for them? Meanwhile the Getty sales rep (we'd switched brands in 1972), regaled us with stories that there was so much gas, it was sloshing over the tops of the tanks at the storage facility. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 17, 2021 10:15:40 GMT -5
When the embargo started in '73, we had fights in front of the pumps, a knife flashed once, another guy lighting matches and trying to fling them at some guy he accused of cutting in front of him on the line in the street, and loud proclamations that sixty cents a gallon was a crime, and that they would never pay a dollar a gallon for gas. How'd that work out for them? Meanwhile the Getty sales rep (we'd switched brands in 1972), regaled us with stories that there was so much gas, it was sloshing over the tops of the tanks at the storage facility. Good to know that no matter how times change, there's always some charlatan trying to make an extra buck off the working stiff |
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