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Title: Subject: "1960's (Take 5 mins and reflect)
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URL Source: http://oldfortyfives.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm
Published: Sep 11, 2006
Author: oldfortyfives
Post Date: 2006-09-11 12:31:03 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Views: 213
Comments: 17
If you're at least in your mid to late 50's click on the link
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#1. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#0)
What an outstanding link - thanks a bunch.
That was really intersting. I like the salaries and prices they showed. I really think we were better off then. It's hard to say as I was so young. But in 1968 I worked at a golf course and made about two bucks an hour. I had a paid off 1964 Ford that I bought used for $350. The rent on my apartment (room) in California was $35 per month. It cost $5.00 to get in to see Country Joe and the Fish. A quart of beer was 0.30 cents and a gallon of gas was 0.25. We used to say we needed a buck to go out: $0.35 for a pack of cigs, $0.30 for a quart of beer and $0.35 to kick in for gas. Had to work 1/2 hour to earn this. I don't think an 18 year old kid could support himself in my type of menial job these days.
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Our main entertainment was driving around drinking beer. The cops didn't harass you for this as long as you weren't drunk or driving crazy. They just took your beer away if they caught you.
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The Fifies lasted until 1964. Then things started falling apart.
Love it - sending it around to the pre-nursing home crowd :)
Yep....and if they knew you were drinking, they would follow you home to make you made it OK w/o pulling you over to harass, threaten, and arrest. It was like that in my area until the mid-late '70s.
formerly GJones.
"Drinking and Driving" was legal in all states except Califorina and Ohio until the late 1980's when the Feds started cracking down. Had another factiod told to me by a babyboomer today. .22 ammo prices. 1960 65 cents for a box of 50. Today $6.50 for a box of 100.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
Ammo and weapons have not inflated quite as much as everything else, for reasons unknown to me.
I noticed that on the price list in'61 on the website they had Big Macs listed. I believe they didn't start to make them until the late '60s.
formerly GJones.
The first one I saw was here in Austin in the fall of '65...on a side note, one of my classmates snagged the franchise for the entire state of Arkansas back in the day - he recently cashed out, and did exceedingly well for himself.
I used to view the 60's with the traditional BS line of the GOPER fake conservatives. I have a more nuanced view of that decade know (well- 1964 to 1975 is what I call the "60's".) I view it now as a time of lost opportunity- of righteous rebellion that got misdirected by leftists and drowned in a sea of drugs and false "sexual liberation".
I include 1964 in the Fifties. 1965 was the year the change kicked in. Vietnam became a major war, Watts exploded, the silver came out of the coins, Bob Dylan went electric, and the Yankees went from first to sixth.
Plus, immigration law was radically liberalized in '65.
well, shoot, he's used his alloted bandwidth for the day.
Surplus, my boy! And I see China is now flooding the market with knock off guns and ammo of US design. There is still a flood of cheap weapons coming in from former Warsaw pact members and Russia herself. Nagant pistols for $89. Mosin-Nagant M44 rifle for $99. 440 round cans of ammo for less than $50. Most countries are still clearing out their WWII weapons stocks. When that dries up, then we are screwed. FEDGOV won't sell off old M16A2's or M4s to us proles. No more Garands and Carbines either and no "war booty" mausers for a kid to buy as his first hunting rifle. Edit: Doh! Forgot. Pre-1963 you could mail order guns and even anti-tank rifles like the 20mm Finnish Lahti L-39 or Hungarian Solothurn. 57mm Recoiless rifles were legal at one time too...back when this country was at least semi-sain. My, how "safe" all our laws and agents have made us.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death" - Me.
Transfusion - Nervous Norvus
The faster the Aryan Nation mob at Freedom4um are caged and chained, the better off we'll be. I’ll cheering when they are forced to behave. - Aaron
Yeah - I can remember weapons offered in Sears, JCPenny, and other catalogues...through the mail.
#2. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#0)
#3. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#0)
#4. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#0)
I've already said too much.
#5. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#0)
#6. To: ... (#3)
Our main entertainment was driving around drinking beer. The cops didn't harass you for this as long as you weren't drunk or driving crazy. They just took your beer away if they caught you.
#7. To: InsideJob (#6)
It was like that in my area until the mid-late '70s.
#8. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#7)
1960 65 cents for a box of 50. Today $6.50 for a box of 100.
#9. To: lodwick, Pissed Off Janitor (#8)
#10. To: InsideJob (#9)
I believe they didn't start to make them until the late '60s.
#11. To: MUDDOG (#4)
#12. To: Burkeman1 (#11)
I've already said too much.
#13. To: Burkeman1 (#12)
I've already said too much.
#14. To: Itisa1mosttoolate (#0)
#15. To: lodwick (#8)
(Edited)
Ammo and weapons have not inflated quite as much as everything else, for reasons unknown to me.
#16. To: Itisa1mosttoolate, lodwick, ... (#0)
#17. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#15)
Edit: Doh! Forgot. Pre-1963 you could mail order guns and even anti-tank rifles like the 20mm Finnish Lahti L-39 or Hungarian Solothurn. 57mm Recoiless rifles were legal at one time too...back when this country was at least semi-sain. My, how "safe" all our laws and agents have made us.
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