Do You Remember?
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Do you remember when McDonalds burgers and fries cost 15 cents each and a 21 piece bucket of KFC chicken cost $4.95?
Do you remember the gas wars of the 60's, when there was a gas station on all 4 corners at some intersections, and gas was 25 cents a gallon for 6 months at a time and you could fill your 20 gallon speed wagon for 5 bucks?
Would you buy 21 of anything for $4.95 now?
Quote: Wavy70I have a bewitched egg that I use to play VP with and I have net over 900k with it.
Don't bust that egg where I'm playing. lol I left a carton of egg's in my hunting cabin and a year later I came back and had to go back in with a gas mask. Toke 20 bottles of fabreeze and 4 gallons of bleach to eliminate that smell.
Quote: Wavy70No but I don't remember Polio either.
Would you buy 21 of anything for $4.95 now?
Polio disappeared in the early 50's, I don't remember it either. I do remember the vaccination, does that count? And I'd buy 21 of almost anything now for $4.95, who wouldn't.
Quote: EvenBobDo you remember when you could buy Sunoco gas in 8 different octane grades, right at the pump? 190-260, you selected it. 260 was racing fuel and is still sold by Sunoco for race cars.
Shoot, I remember that the local Sunoco sold 4 grades of gas up until a few years ago. 89/91/93/96 octane under the new system. They would sell you racing gas if you asked, but it was not at the pumps.
Growing up in Tx, I remember the era of cheap gas (for me) - 65 cents a galllon when the rest of the nation was more like .80.
-B
Quote: EvenBobDo you remember when you could buy Sunoco gas in 8 different octane grades, right at the pump? 190-260, you selected it. 260 was racing fuel and is still sold by Sunoco for race cars.
Do you remember when McDonalds burgers and fries cost 15 cents each and a 21 piece bucket of KFC chicken cost $4.95?
Do you remember the gas wars of the 60's, when there was a gas station on all 4 corners at some intersections, and gas was 25 cents a gallon for 6 months at a time and you could fill your 20 gallon speed wagon for 5 bucks?
My friend's dad had a Flying A gas station at one of those 4 corners and my friends and I spent a lot of time there. If a car came in for gas and looked like it was going to take $5 we all ran out to the pump to watch the numbers. Premium gas was called High-Test and windshields were always washed.
The other stations were Shell, Atlantic, and Esso.
Quote: JerryLoganMt drivers tell me they only have full service gas stations in Oregon. Is that true, you can't pump your own? Must be they try to keep some low class job positions for all the hippies and droputs up there.
The other one is New Jersey. What a thrill it is to have some slob spill gas on your nice, new car and then scratch it with the nozzle.
And for some reason, once that happened they've never gone down again.
Do they still have cigarette and cigar girls in any of the casinos? I haven't heard that familiar call in awhile in any that I normally visit.
The one thing I lament most is Good Humor from the truck was a quarter. The bar that I think is currently called a Chip Candy Crunch was called a Chocolate Chip Candy, and it had a lot more candy in the middle than today, and a lot more crunchies on the coating.
But most of all, they had a version called a Mint Chip Candy, Hmmmm.....
Quote: rxwineI remember when a pack of cigarettes was .80 cents. (for like premium packs not bat shit and twigs)
Do they still have cigarette and cigar girls in any of the casinos? I haven't heard that familiar call in awhile in any that I normally visit.
My dad used to smoke those nasty Chesterfield regulars. They were 23 cents a pack. You'd give the guy a quarter and your 2 cents change would be under the cellophane in the sealed pack.
Quote: rxwineI remember when a pack of cigarettes was .80 cents. (for like premium packs not bat shit and twigs)
Do they still have cigarette and cigar girls in any of the casinos? I haven't heard that familiar call in awhile in any that I normally visit.
The only place I remember hearing it recently was Caesars Palace.
I remember when the price of gas went from 35 cents to 75 cents in 79, and everyone freaked....
I remember paying 85 cents in Virginia in 1998 I believe....
And Polio isn't gone, it is still left in 4 countries, India, Afganistan, Nigeria and Pakistan have the greatest number of cases. It will become, in the next ten years, the second disease wiped from the face of the earth...
Gasoline has been one of the cheapest liquids that you can purchase, even today... When a 16oz bottle of water costs you a dollar, then you are paying more than you are for 16 oz of gas...
SFB
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Gasoline has been one of the cheapest liquids that you can purchase, even today...
SFB
When I moved to Calif in the 70's and saw gas was .89, I almost went home, where it was .50.
When I was in 3rd grade, 8 years old, my grade school let me leave 15min early so I could go home and babysit my 1 year old brother for an hour before my mother got home. Try doing that now, you'll go to jail. The neighbor lady would give me a note and 30 cents to go to the store and buy her a pack of cigs. They were .25 and I spent the nickel on penny candy. Give an 8 year old a note like that now and the cops will be knocking on your door.
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Do you remember when McDonalds burgers and fries cost 15 cents each and a 21 piece bucket of KFC chicken cost $4.95?
Do you remember when a Big Mac combo cost less than $10?! I just tried the special candied bacon Whopper and the combo with tax was $11+. It was very good, but it really seems like fast food has really gone up in price the past couple years. The $.40 Big Mac of 1968 translates to about $4.00 today. A buck extra for a combo is around $9.00 today. So I suppose not as out of hand as it seems, but you have to admit it is depressing.
On the subject of fast food, do you remember the foil ashtrays they used to have at the tables? We would fold and destroy them as kids just out of boredom. But try getting someone born after 1990 to believe they used to allow smoking at Burger King and imagine the looks you will get.
Those paper souffle cups were always lousy, but an ashtray could be pumped full of a respectable amount of ketchup.
I asked if it didn't seem gross, but they seemed satisfied that they went through the industrial dushwasher daily, since they were the ones washing them.
Quote: DieterThe fast-food workers I knew always grabbed clean ashtrays to use as ketchup dishes.
Those paper souffle cups were always lousy, but an ashtray could be pumped full of a respectable amount of ketchup.
I asked if it didn't seem gross, but they seemed satisfied that they went through the industrial dushwasher daily, since they were the ones washing them.
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They washed them? The ones I remember were throwaway.
Quote: AZDuffmanQuote: DieterThe fast-food workers I knew always grabbed clean ashtrays to use as ketchup dishes.
Those paper souffle cups were always lousy, but an ashtray could be pumped full of a respectable amount of ketchup.
I asked if it didn't seem gross, but they seemed satisfied that they went through the industrial dushwasher daily, since they were the ones washing them.
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They washed them? The ones I remember were throwaway.
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That's what they said.
If the gold coating was worn off, or they were smashed up, or... I'm sure they were discarded.
I saw enough stacks of them, slightly damp, by the condiments and napkins to believe it.
