When I was born: gas was .15 gal., milk .62 gal, a stamp was 3 cents. You????

[dixiegrrrrl]

The list: when I was born:
A new house...$4,625
A new car.....$1,025
Ave. income...$2,390 yr.
grnd coffee.....50 #
Pres......... Truman
gas.............15 cents a gallon
Vit. D. milk . .62 cents a gallon
postage stamp.....3 cents.

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. In my mid-to-late teens, I remember two gas stations at the same intersection...

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...who would have regularly-waged gas wars... driving their price down to 27.9 cents per gallon.
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You didn't feel goofy going in to pay for a buck's worth of gas.
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Oh... and 18 cent Burger Chef hamburgers.
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[dixiegrrrrl]

2. When I was 18, driving thru Texas, we were amazed that gas was .25

and so were HUGE hamburgers!

[madinmaryland]

20. Heh! The 25-cent burgers would give you gas for FREE!!

:stink:

:puke:

[madinmaryland]

19. I remember the gas wars of the early 70's. They would drive the prices

down to the mid teens.

[raccoon]

25. You must be a lot older than I figured you for. Here I had you pegged as a whippersnapper. nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

29. HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I had thought the same thing of you -- because of your great sense of humor!!!

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Sadly, I'm child-ISH, but I'm hoping to be upwardly mobile to child-LIKE someday.
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[raccoon]

36. Why, thank you, MFM. nt

[one_voice]

3. Born 1967,,,,

I found some other info an included it...

IN THE NEWS:

* The Apollo astronauts (Grissom, White, and Chaffee) died in a spacecraft fire during a simulated launch
* Israel and Arab forces battle during the Six-Day War resulting in Israel taking control of Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, the East Bank of the Suez Canal
* Communist China explodes its first hydrogen bomb
* Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Supreme Court Justice
* Dr. Christiaan Barnard and a team of South African surgeons perform the world's first human heart transplant (patient dies 18 days later)
* Pulsars (dying stars) are discovered by Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish
* On April 21 tornado outbreaks in Illinois and Michigan leave 33 dead
* St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox in the World Series
* Billie Jean King wins the U.S. and British Women's Singles and Doubles championships

ON THE RADIO:

* Dr. Christian
* Eternal Light
* Gibson
* Guy Lombardo Orchestra
* Meet the Press
* Sherlock Holmes

ON TELEVISION:

* The Dating Game
* The Newlywed Game
* Mannix
* Gentle Ben
* Mothers-in-Law
* The High Chaparral
* Carol Burnett Show
* N.Y.P.D.
* The Flying Nun
* Ironside
* Judd, for the Defense
* The Avengers
* Mission: Impossible
* I Dream of Jeannie
* The Prisoner
* NBC News and CBS News both become 30-minute programs

FADS & FASHION:

* Hand held calculators
* Ants-in-the-Pants game
* The Monkees Game
* Dr. Doolittle's Pushmi-Pullyu stuffed toys
* Twiggy fashion tote bags
* Miniskirts
* Nehru jackets
* Beatles haircuts

WHAT THINGS COST:

* Car: $2,425
* Gasoline: 33 cents per gallon
* House: $24,600
* Bread: 22 cents per loaf
* Milk: $1.15 per gallon
* Postage Stamp: 5 cents
* Average Annual Salary: $8,801
* Minimum Wage: $1.40 per hour

ACADEMY AWARD - BEST PICTURE:

* In the Heat of the Night - mystery by Norman Jewison starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger

TONY AWARD - BEST MUSICAL:

* Cabaret - based on the book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, choreographed by Harold Prince, starring Jill Haworth and Joel Grey

PULITZER PRIZES:

* The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (fiction)
* A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee (drama)
* Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann (history)
* Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan (biography)
* Live or Die by Anne Sexton (poetry)
* The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (non-fiction)

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:

* none awarded

TOP SONGS:

* To Sir With Love by Lulu
* Happy Together by The Turtles
* Daydream Believer by The Monkees


Found here: http://iwannagetthat.com/NewFiles/1967.html

[RebelOne]

4. I pre-date you all.

I remember the gas wars when gas was in the single digits. My mother bought a brand-new house for $7,000. Don't remember the price of milk or coffee. But you could buy a Cadillac for about $2.000, which my mother did. Not even sure who the president was, either Eisenhower or Truman. That was such a long time ago.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Long ago, indeed. Don't remind me.

I just realized my "kids" are...middle aged!!!!

[trof]

34. You could do the math? I was born in FDR's second term.

:-)

[bluesbassman]

6. When I was 9 (1967) I had a Taco 22 Minibike...

I used to scrounge empty soda bottles to get 15 cents it took to fill the tank. :)

Year I was born:
President was Eisenhower
Car: $2,200
Gasoline: 30 cents/gal - In '67 when I was filling my minibike it was only 33 cents!
House: $18,000
Bread: 19 cents/loaf
Milk: $1.01/gal
Postage Stamp: 4 cents
Stock Market: 584
Average Annual Salary: $5,500
Minimum Wage: $1.00 per hour

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. "Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end..."

[old mark]

8. I was born in 1947-Truman was president. A starting job in a good industry paid

under $100 a week. I guy I knew who got married right after high school bought a house and paid $80 a month mortgage. Being married kept him out of the draft, too...
You could buy an old used car for $150...I bought one for $70 in 1970, drove it for more than 2 years ( a 1949 Buick). I sold it for $100.
Kids had neat old cars, too-I hung out with a guy who had a '48 Mercury coupe, and several who had '55, '56 and '57 Chevy's...one of the '57's had a vette engine and 4 speed in it.
A guy in my band had a '50's Les Paul Gold Top he bought for $200. I played a Danelectro Longhorn bass that I got for $120, with the factory hard case.

It was a whole different world, long gone.

mark

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. My high school sweetheart drove a '53 Mercury, with something called

"glass pack pipes" ( do I have that right???) Something was cool and special about the muffler, at any rate.

Made the coolest rumbling sound. After all these years I can still see that car driving up to my house for a date.
Of course back then , girls did not drive, they sat snuggled up to the guy who was busy with a steering wheel the size of a tire.
I remember that '57 Chevy's and '56 Fords were a big deal back in the early 60's..everyone had one.
Wish I still had ours.

[bluesbassman]

10. My first car was a '55 Chevy 2 door. Bought from a friend for $150 in '74.

Had to stop every 100 miles to adjust the lifters 'cause they were so worn out, but it was a blast. :)

One time, while my friend still owned it, we were driving down the road with the with the windows rolled up and a great deal of smoke in the car. :smoke: He decides at the last minute to make this hard right turn and I swear, as god is my witness, he put the thing up on two wheels. Well, we negotiated the turn and when the wheels slammed back to the ground we both turned to look at each other and just kind of gave a feeble laugh like "uh-heh". Good times. :hippie:

They still make "glass packs". They're called Cherry Bombs.

[old mark]

15. But now they put 'em on hot rod Toyotas and they sound like large angry

bees.....

mark

[old mark]

14. It is now worth about 15 times what you paid for it then...nt

[Initech]

11. I paid $4.08 a gallon today.

:grr:

[Glorfindel]

12. I was born three days before Japan signed the surrender document in WW II

Car: $1,250
Gasoline: 21 cents per gallon
House: $10,000
Bread: 9 cents per loaf
Milk: 62 cents per gallon
Postage Stamp: 3 cents
Average Annual Salary: $2,900
Minimum Wage: 40 cents per hour

I'm a few months too old to be a baby boomer.

[murielm99]

13. You must be a boomer.

I was born during that time, too. My parents bought a house for $10,000.00. They upgraded to a better house later. In the sixties, their bigger house cost $16,000.00!

My dad was making big money when his promotion upgraded him to $12.000.00 per year. My mom never had to work.

[Old Troop]

17. Dad was a bus driver. Never made more than $5K per year but

was able to buy a house outside of Boston for $13K and put four kids through college. By the way, our next door neighbor was a lawyer, the guy across the street was an engineer, another guy was a schoolteacher and Mel, well, no-one knew what Mel did except ride a bike up and down the street sitting backwards on it (the men said he had had a few "problems" from the war).

[Old Troop]

16. For me it was a little more...

House: $22,000
Average income: $3,960
Ford car: $1548-$2415
Milk: $.92
Gas: $.21
Bread $.17
Postage stamp: $.03
Swiss Cheese: $ .69 lb.
American Cheese: $.55 lb.
T-Bone steak : $.95 lb.
Del Monte Catsup (2) 14.oz bottles: $.25
Post Grape Nuts cereal - 10 .oz pkg: $.19
Clorox Bleach - 1/2 gal.: $.19
20 gallon gas water heater $75.
Semi-automatic Kenmore washer: $154.95

[rurallib]

18. i was born about the same time as you. Even stranger than the prices

was that me and my brothers could go to the local corner grocery (town of @15,000) and get cigarettes and (IIRC) beer for my folks with a note and money of course.
I know the beer thing didn't last long, but I kept getting smokes for my mother from the time I was @5 til I left home.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Oh god..I had forgotten about that. Yes, we did the same. Bread, milk and cigs, it seemed.

And brought home change from the dollar!

I remember when taverns closed on Sunday, I think beer sales at stores did too? Or maybe you could only buy beer AT taverns?
I remember as a kid of 6-7-8 walking INTO taverns to talk to adults in them, and we loved to go trick or treating in taverns ( there were a LOT of taverns in the small towns we lived in), we always got 50 cents pieces from people there at Halloween.

[Bombero1956]

21. born in 1956

Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.52%
Average Cost of new house $11.700.00
Average Monthly Rent $88.00
Average Yearly Wages $4.450.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 22 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,050.00
Ground Coffee per LB 85 Cents

[raccoon]

23. Sorry, I didn't pay much attention to prices when I was born.

Sounds like you are about my age. :-) :fistbump:

[HopeHoops]

24. I don't remember. I was kinda young back then.

[hifiguy]

26. These figures are from '56, when I was born

but as a boy in the mid 1960s I remember gas wars where the price was around $0.17/gallon, and a week's family groceries was $20-25 or so.

President: Eisenhower

House: $22,000
Average income: $4,454
Ford car: $1748-$3151
Milk: $.97
Gas: $.23
Bread $.18
Postage stamp: $.03
Chuck Pot Roast: $ .33 lb.
Spareribs: $.39 lb.
Cabbage: $.04 lb.
Eggs, doz.: $.45
Coffee: $.69 lb.
Carnation Instant Chocolate Drink, 10oz.: $.33
Rheingold Beer, 6, 12 .oz cans: $1.20

[DainBramaged]

31. 1951

House: $16,000
Average income: $3,515
Ford car: $1424-$2253
8.3 cu. ft. General Electric refrigerator: $330
Milk: $.92
Gas: $.20
Bread $.16
Postage stamp: $.03
1 lb. of buttered peanut brittle: $.25
14 oz. can of Hershey’s Syrup: $.17
Sliced Bacon: $.63 per lb
Coca Cola, 6 bottles: $.37
Canada Dry Ginger Ale, (2) 28 oz btls: $.39
Post Sugar Crisp, 6 oz pkg: $.15
Jerry Mahoney Ventriloquist dummy: $14.95


http://www.fiftiesweb.com/pop/prices-1951.htm

[Bombero1956]

27. I remember my Dad working all week at the foundry

his take home pay was $68.

[ceile]

28. ok

# Car: $4,950
# Gasoline: 57 cents per gallon
# House: $42,600
# Bread: 28 cents per loaf
# Milk: $1.40 per gallon
# Postage Stamp: 13 cents
# Average Annual Salary: $15,546
# Minimum Wage: $2.10 per hour

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

30. Did you look this information up on some website?

If so, what was it? I have no idea how much things cost when I was born. Carter was president... I can tell you that much.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

32. OK.. I found some stuff on a link someone else posted

Car: $6,847
Gasoline: 88 cents per gallon
House: $71,800
Bread: 43 cents per loaf
Milk: $1.50 per gallon
Postage Stamp: 15 cents
Average Annual Salary: $22,316
Minimum Wage: $2.90 per hour

[liberaltrucker]

33. I'm a bit younger

Ike was prez (DOB 1954)
I assume that due to low inflation
in those days it'd be similar.

[trof]

35. OK, I can top that. Gas was $0.12 gal. during FDR's 2nd term.

1941
;-)
A pound of coffee was $0.24.
A quart of milk was $0.14.

In 2001 dollars that equated to $2.89 for coffee and $1.69 for milk.
Inflation ate up the rest?

[meow2u3]

37. Prices in 1960

Cost of Living 1960
How Much things cost in 1960
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.46%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 1.1%
Average Cost of new house $12,700.00
Average Monthly Rent $98.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 25 cents
23 inch Television $219.95
Average Cost of a new car $2,600.00
Piaggio / Vespa Scooter $319.95
Can of Beef Ravioli 30 cents
Adding Machine $49.95
Loaf of Bread 20 cents
Mens Electric Shaver $20.30
Polaroid Land Camera, looking back it seems quite expensive but this was the only way to see your photo nearly instantly
Polaroid Camera $93.45
The latest in Danish contemporary furniture for the 60's home
Danish Contemporary Living Room Furniture $350.00

Source: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1960.html

[dgibby]

38. 1945

How Much things cost in 1945

Average Cost of new house $4.600.00

Average wages per year $2,400.00

Cost of a gallon of Gas 15 cents

Average Cost for house rent $60.00 per month

Girls Dolls House $3.19
Average Cost New Car $1,020.00

Ladies Fur Coat $70.00
Men's Shirt $2.50

Portable Typewriter $68.37

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1945.html

I was born in Dec'45. FDR died in April of that year, Truman was Prez, and WWII had just ended.

[RedCloud]

39. Some folks have all the luck!

The list: when I was born:
A new cave...free with bear to boot!
A new rock.....free
Ave. income...$0- no work, just survival
grnd coffee.....not yet discovered
Pres.........Clan of the Cave Bear
gas.............came from poor diet
Vit. D. milk . .not possible. All were weaned early
postage stamp.....nothing to write about.