Coca Cola was 10 cents/bottle in our pop machines in 1966... (plus 2 cents bottle deposit if wanted to take it with you rather than drink it here... ) ... 60 cents for 6 of them...
I was born in the '50 's and I remember school lunches cost $0.35 n the'60's . Local bus fare was $0.25 and bus transfers were free . If you lost $20.00 , you lost quite a bit of money as the Federal Minimum Wage back then was $1.65 /hour . If a person made at least $200.00 a week , they were middle class !
Wow, those prices sound like a dream today, don't they? 😅 Imagine if $20 still felt like a fortune. I'd be living like royalty every time I found a bill in my old jacket. And earning $200 a week putting you squarely in middle class? Time travel, anyone? 🕰️💸 Let's just not forget to pack our modern-day tech to truly wow the '60s crowd!
I'm 78 & was in my teens & 20's in the 1960's! Min. wage was $1.65 for men & $1.45 for women! I made $132.40 at age 23 in 1969 & thought that I was very well off! Bus & train fare in NYC was only $.15 until the transit strike in 1966! Tolls on all bridges were $.25 or $.50, none higher until 1972! A brand new small car was $2,000 & a new house, on Long Island, could be bought for as little as $13,000 in 1963! Wow!
Someone pickpocketed me as I had MY WALLET BEHIND ME and I lost around $45.00 ! That was a huge sum of money back then ! I have since put my wallet IN MY FRONT POCKET and I have never been pickpocketed since !!!
A lot of the price increase is greed, developers & car manufacturers raised prices so workers wanted an increase, then stores/ businesses knew workers have more money so they raise prices it just snowballs.
Late 1976 special ordered a beautiful '77 Pontiac Grand Prix w/ V8 for $5500... when I looked at similar new GP in '81, they were $14K, smaller, and didn't want to offer a V8, just crap V6...
I’m 63 and I’m 1967 minimum wage where I live in Montreal was probably about $1.50 an hour now it’s $15.75. I paint houses and I have a guy that helps me sometimes and I pay him $40.00 an hour. Hes really good and has been helping me on and off for 16 years. Well worth it.
I remember in elementary school during the late 1960's , my parents would pay 25 cents a week for the daily half pint of milk for the 9 am " snack-break". BTW, this was in Brooklyn, New York. I remember my dad had a big Oldsmobile 98 with a 21 gallon fuel tank, and it would cost him almost six dollars to fill the fuel tank.
In the early 60s, a small plate of spaghetti cost 25 cents and a chicken in the basket (3 pieces of chicken and a roll) cost a whopping 60 cents. Hot dog was 10 cents at the bowling alley and Coke was 5 cents. Cherry Coke was 5 cents more so I thought it was highway robbery.
The 50’s and 60’s really started the era of highly processed and subsequent unhealthy eating. Quick wasn’t necessarily better, but it certainly was a commercial lure. I’m a retired nurse educator. It’s a sad statement of our current reality that the poor (and that’s an enormous population) can rarely afford to eat healthfully, and that has caused the rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Exactly! Some 1960s items, including Coca-Cola memorabilia, have indeed become valuable treasures today. Cheers to nostalgia and the timeless appeal of Coca-Cola! 🥤✨"
The human race has lost a lot of its value too. People, especially babies, are often just thrown away, thanks to the Democrats and the abortion industry.
When PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON took away the gold standard for the dollar , gas prices skyrocketed and other items shortly followed suit . The gold standard was America's lifesaver back then . The politicians back then feared that all of the gold in FORT KNOX would be depleted so they "ingeniously" thought to conveniently remove the gold standard . I don't know what PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN did in his first year in office , but canned vegetables doubled in price within a six week period . Apartment rent has doubled in price from ten years ago as well . PEOPLE ARE SO GREEDY !!!
"Sustainability & "environmental stewardship " make me want to hurl my lunch, just buzzwords started by yuppie/, hippie liberals (& their offspring )that grew up in the '60s/70s.
What other items from the 1960s do you remember being surprisingly affordable?
Coca Cola was 10 cents/bottle in our pop machines in 1966... (plus 2 cents bottle deposit if wanted to take it with you rather than drink it here... ) ... 60 cents for 6 of them...
I was born in the '50 's and I remember school lunches cost $0.35 n the'60's . Local bus fare was $0.25 and bus
transfers were free . If you lost $20.00 , you lost quite a bit of money as the Federal Minimum Wage back then
was $1.65 /hour . If a person made at least $200.00 a week , they were middle class !
Wow, those prices sound like a dream today, don't they? 😅 Imagine if $20 still felt like a fortune. I'd be living like royalty every time I found a bill in my old jacket. And earning $200 a week putting you squarely in middle class? Time travel, anyone? 🕰️💸 Let's just not forget to pack our modern-day tech to truly wow the '60s crowd!
I'm 78 & was in my teens & 20's in the 1960's! Min. wage was $1.65 for men & $1.45 for women! I made
$132.40 at age 23 in 1969 & thought that I was very well off! Bus & train fare in NYC was only $.15 until
the transit strike in 1966! Tolls on all bridges were $.25 or $.50, none higher until 1972! A brand new small
car was $2,000 & a new house, on Long Island, could be bought for as little as $13,000 in 1963! Wow!
Minimum wage here in Ohio was 90c - $1.10 in 1960's... whopping $100/week was middle class...
In the 1950's and the 1960's it was fashionable for men to carry "change purses" in their pockets !
Someone pickpocketed me as I had MY WALLET BEHIND ME and I lost around $45.00 ! That was a huge sum of
money back then ! I have since put my wallet IN MY FRONT POCKET and I have never been pickpocketed since !!!
My first real (job ) paid $3.35/ hour, your lost $45 was 2 days pay back then.
A lot of the price increase is greed, developers & car manufacturers raised prices so workers wanted an increase, then stores/ businesses knew workers have more money so they raise prices it just snowballs.
I worked for Pepsi in 1963 a retail 6 pack of pepsi's sold for 45 cents. In 1978 I bought a new 1/2 ton Chevy pickup truck for $5400.
Late 1976 special ordered a beautiful '77 Pontiac Grand Prix w/ V8 for $5500... when I looked at similar new GP in '81, they were $14K, smaller, and didn't want to offer a V8, just crap V6...
Back in my day.....
Can't We just have a damn cup of Tea, without all the blended organic foolishness!
I do, several times a day. Good ol' Lipton Iced Tea... The only thing modern about is the two packets of generic Equal I put in it. (Sugar is evil!)
Amen.
I bought a "grab bag" of about twenty "45" 's for about $1.99 in the late 60's ..
Cassette tapes even cheaper now... LOL!
I’m 63 and I’m 1967 minimum wage where I live in Montreal was probably about $1.50 an hour now it’s $15.75. I paint houses and I have a guy that helps me sometimes and I pay him $40.00 an hour. Hes really good and has been helping me on and off for 16 years. Well worth it.
I remember in elementary school during the late 1960's , my parents would pay 25 cents a week for the daily half pint of milk for the 9 am " snack-break". BTW, this was in Brooklyn, New York. I remember my dad had a big Oldsmobile 98 with a 21 gallon fuel tank, and it would cost him almost six dollars to fill the fuel tank.
Bribenomics took a 8 dollar case of soda to 15 now
12 packs went to 8 packs and also doubled in price...
40c/dozen eggs went to $5 for a while...
Comic books were 12 cents and then went up to cents.
In the early 60s, a small plate of spaghetti cost 25 cents and a chicken in the basket (3 pieces of chicken and a roll) cost a whopping 60 cents. Hot dog was 10 cents at the bowling alley and Coke was 5 cents. Cherry Coke was 5 cents more so I thought it was highway robbery.
The 50’s and 60’s really started the era of highly processed and subsequent unhealthy eating. Quick wasn’t necessarily better, but it certainly was a commercial lure. I’m a retired nurse educator. It’s a sad statement of our current reality that the poor (and that’s an enormous population) can rarely afford to eat healthfully, and that has caused the rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Fails to mention corporate greed in the cost increase. And ethical sourcing is hardly a factor. Cheap labor is sought.
The price of everything also goes up every time the price of oil goes up.
@@clarissapullen6718 We produce more oil than any other country and the monopoly of 3-4 corporations manipulates that.price
"THINGS GO BETTER WITH COCA-COLA..."👍🏻😱
Exactly! Some 1960s items, including Coca-Cola memorabilia, have indeed become valuable treasures today. Cheers to nostalgia and the timeless appeal of Coca-Cola! 🥤✨"
Ratio wise we are paying much more and not just because of inflation
Corporate greed. Period.
I was in a small shop and I bought a "D J RECORD : NOT FOR SALE "45" for $0.10 or so in the late 60's .
Yes agree with you
You pay $19 for six pack of Coke? You gotta stop shopping at Suckers-R-Us. I just bought a 36 can case for $15 at Costco.
Well said!
He means glass bottles, a 12 ounce is 2.99
And it's made with sugar instead of corn syrup
Yeah but then wages paid were z lot lower then as well the minimum wage in 1965 was just $1.25 an hour.
Before 1964 ,I believe the minimum wage was $1.60 for men & $1.40 for women, at least in NY State!
No body wash back then. It was bars of soap. I remember when body wash first came out it was a new and crazy thing!
Love coffee and tea just way should
I remember paying 1.25 for a 6 pack of beer
$.99 for a 6 pack, if you got it on sale or an off-brand, e.g. "Old Milwaukee"!
Sometimes,on sale, you could buy a six-pack of beer, e.g "Old Milwaukee", or similar, for $.99!
It was way BETTER in the 1960s and 70s this SUCKS!
The dollar has lost most of its value. It doesn't buy much anymore.
Wages haven't risen in decades, inflation, corporate greed = Nobody has a dollar to spare anywhere anymore.
The human race has lost a lot of its value too. People, especially babies, are often just thrown away, thanks to the Democrats and the abortion industry.
When PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON took away the gold standard for the dollar , gas prices skyrocketed and
other items shortly followed suit . The gold standard was America's lifesaver back then . The politicians back
then feared that all of the gold in FORT KNOX would be depleted so they "ingeniously" thought to conveniently
remove the gold standard . I don't know what PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN did in his first year in office , but canned
vegetables doubled in price within a six week period . Apartment rent has doubled in price from ten years ago
as well . PEOPLE ARE SO GREEDY !!!
@@glennso47 - Stop lying like an evil religic... fetuses aren't babies...
What is diversity
"Sustainability & "environmental stewardship " make me want to hurl my lunch, just buzzwords started by yuppie/, hippie liberals (& their offspring )that grew up in the '60s/70s.
What a load of crap. You know the REAL reason a dollar doesn't go far today? Greed.
Democrats force businesses to make bad 'business decisions'...