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Title: What did your first _____ cost? and what is it today?
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Published: Sep 20, 2013
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Post Date: 2013-09-20 21:58:16 by Lod
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#1. To: Lod (#0)
Hershey bar 10¢ 65¢ - 75¢ and it is one third smaller in size My first car I got for free sunk up to the hubs in muck. The V-8 was seized up and I spent weeks taking it apart. Don't remember what the rings, seals, bearings and gaskets totaled up to. Never got that 289 to run right. Took it to a mechanic I knew well, and he couldn't get it running much smoother either. Ford didn't balance out those cranking parts too well in them days. Traded up for an Olds Starfire with a 425 cu in (7.0 L) V8, leather seats and floorshift Hydramatic. Know guns, know safety, know liberty. No guns, no safety, no liberty.
It was a gift. Now, who knows? 25-40K? “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
A HS date in the early '60s - $5 - some fuel, walk-in movie, DQ snack, back-seat. Today - God knows. Thank God. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Comic Book. I was 6 and it was 10¢. Today - last time I looked they were over $2.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha Three Cheers for the back-seat!!! "“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha When I was 8, the Saturday Matinee in our little "One Horse Town" in Montana was 25¢. A bag of popcorn and a soda was another quarter. Total cost: 50¢. Today - about ten bucks.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha When I started driving gasoline was around 80 cents a gallons. 500 bucks could get you a car to put that gasoline into..... That car is now going for a thousand and the gas is gonna be 3 bucks or better.
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1st car 1939 De Soto $20 at auction when I was 12. 2nd car '62 Rambler Ambassador 327 push button automatic at 17 $200. Today: Used F250 Diesel $25,000 Shiiiit! First gun came out of a barrel at Sunny's Surplus for $12, lost it in a tragic boating accident and haven't bought 1 since. 1st hooker $15 Reynosa Mexico at 16, Marta what a gal went back and stayed 4 days for free. Married the second whore, from the states cost me considerably more. 1st computer $3500 for a 386, Today $600 for an I7 1st home paid way to much for, $80,000, sold it for $500,000 and bought a farm for $250K 1st oz of Au $278 last oz at $1800 1st case of beer $3.83 (Old German) Today $26.00 (Corona) I think I'll have another. “Anti-semitism is a disease–you catch it from Jews”–Edgar J. Steele “The jew cries out in pain, as he strikes you.”–Polish proverb “I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the unfortunate and tasteless quotes I published in my tag lines. I am very sorry and ashamed. I never wanted to offend anyone, or to encroach human rights."- Hmmmmm
Now and Laters taffy candy was .10 for a pack of them. There would be about 9 per package. My favorites were chocolate, lime, apple, grape. Today a pack of them cost 1.90. And they don't have chocolate, lime or apple. :(
A Cherry Coke and a hot cinnamon roll covered with real butter at Hooks Drugstore was .26 cents ... today it'd be $4.00 First car was a 57 Ford Fairlane. $50 to buy it $50 to get it running. (Mine wasn't as nice as the one pictured). I wrecked it (rolled over) on Brookside Parkway about an hour after getting it and myself "legal" ... But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Bastiat
My first new car was a '67 VW bug that I bought for $1,850, cash on the barrel head.
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#3. To: Buzzard, 4 (#1)
'50 Merc
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Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
#6. To: Lod (#4)
A HS date in the early '60s - $5 - some fuel, walk-in movie, DQ snack, back-seat.
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
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Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
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