zogger
Tree Freak
Indoor movie (first place I experienced air conditioning that I recall), two of them plus cartoon, 35 cents, five cents for a pack of BBs for the daisy, 5 cent for a local phone call, ten cent for now very valuable comic books (rats...dad made me give them away when we moved....including first issue spiderman worth a million bucks...), gas I bought around 19 cents usually and once at a price war at 12.9/gallon (filled it up for about two bucks), plus they always gave you free stuff plus coupon stickers for the prize books, rent on a nice apartment was 100 a month, good enough apartment, 45-60$, door to door insurance salesman, you could get health insurance for around six bucks a week, car loans 12 or maybe 18 months at the most, house notes, ten years, @ the earliest mickey D's I can remember, five burgers a shake and fries, get nickel back change from a dollar, (and our silver was real silver, now worth beau coup), smokes I don't remember, didn't do tobacco then (although I sort of vaguely recall sweet smelling leafy matter crammed into a tobacco tin from dudes on the street for $5, all rumors I assure you 
, seems to me a cheap six pack was a buck, as was a bottle of cheap wine, all the used car lots had a rat row in the back with hundred dollar rides that still worked (I went upscale, mine cost $125...). Some of the stores had nice racks of ten dollar old bolt action rifles...and no one cared at school if you brought a long gun and stashed it in your locker to go shooting after school with one of your buddies.
My dad was a radio and Tv guy before he became a mainframe tech, as such, I remember we had the first TV on the block and all sorts of neighbors coming over to watch it, little teeny screen philco in a big cabinet.
When sputnik went up, the entire world stopped what they were doing and went outside to stare at the sky......
Don't remember saws though. didn't start cutting until 1970 and used provided saws (mostly poulans, one stihl I remember and one johnny red I *think*). Bought my first one of my own (cox) for ten dollars around ..I forget...73-4, around then.
, seems to me a cheap six pack was a buck, as was a bottle of cheap wine, all the used car lots had a rat row in the back with hundred dollar rides that still worked (I went upscale, mine cost $125...). Some of the stores had nice racks of ten dollar old bolt action rifles...and no one cared at school if you brought a long gun and stashed it in your locker to go shooting after school with one of your buddies.My dad was a radio and Tv guy before he became a mainframe tech, as such, I remember we had the first TV on the block and all sorts of neighbors coming over to watch it, little teeny screen philco in a big cabinet.
When sputnik went up, the entire world stopped what they were doing and went outside to stare at the sky......
Don't remember saws though. didn't start cutting until 1970 and used provided saws (mostly poulans, one stihl I remember and one johnny red I *think*). Bought my first one of my own (cox) for ten dollars around ..I forget...73-4, around then.
