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Living in 1960
Contributed by
softerware
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Monday, 7th May 2018 @ 08:30:12 PM in AEST
Topic:
Nostalgic
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The 1960 price of things, today would let us live like kings!
Lets go shopping you and I, to see just what our dough could buy.
A loaf of bread is 20 cents. Thirty dollars pays our rent.
Sirloin steak (bone in not ground); is 85 cents for a pound!
A cold sixpack of Budweiser is just a buck of course.
Advertised effectively by teams of Clydesdale horses!
(They joined in 1933, when Prohibition ended;
To celebrate and advertise that Budwieser was splendid)!
Aspirin for a hangover; one hundred in a jar;
A dollar at the grocery store; they give them free at bars.
Sugar in a five pound bag --thirty-eight cents, what a drag!
Baby food for son or daughter: Gerbers 3 jars for a quarter.
For a dollar we could bake four boxes of Pillsburys cake;
Or take home 20 Hershey bars. But breakfast is the bargain star!
A dozen eggs are fifty cents. The oranges cost more.
For eighty cents, the grocer gladly bags us 24!
The butcher weighs our bacon. Its not pre-packed we found;
He measures what were taking, at 80 cents a pound.
Can we afford a Mac Attack? They sell for ten cents each.
McDonalds opened just this year, Ray Crock will bank a treat!
Minimum wage per hour thrives, at just a dollar twenty five.
The price to see a picture show; for the two of us to go!
(Drive-ins cost us less than that; with lots of smooching in the back!)
A brand new pair of Levi jeans? Five dollars out the door.
And guys paid thirteen dollars for the brand new shoes they score.
Lets stop for gas; heres what to say: Just a dollars worth today.
He pumps four gallons; checks our oil, cleans our windshield if its soiled.
Checks our tires, tips his hat, were on our way; no charge for that.
In 1960 we would get; 9 MPG in a Corvette.
(Today wed have a longer drive. This years Corvette gets 25)!
Two thousand and six hundred bought, a new car off the dealers lot.
A Vespa Scooter could be had, for just three hundred bucks...not bad.
A brand new house (well need a loan); thirteen thousand bucks to own.
To qualify, the average man now earns an annual five grand.
But there were drawbacks naturally; For instance, thinking rationally:
The average life expectancy was only 69.
But medicine keeps adding years and giving us more time!
Dont know bout you, but we should choose to keep that goal in sight:
The very least that we can do is try to prove them right!
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softerware
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Re: Living in 1960
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by Durango on
Tuesday, 8th May 2018 @ 05:21:08 AM AEST
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A fun remembrance if you lived through it and an economic education if you didn/'/t.
It would be interesting to time travel back,
But don/'/t we always romanticize the past.
$2,600 for a new car! 58 years from today
They/'/ll say $30,000 for a new car, how cheap was that! |
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Re: Living in 1960
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by Durango on
Tuesday, 8th May 2018 @ 05:21:11 AM AEST
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A fun remembrance if you lived through it and an economic education if you didn/'/t.
It would be interesting to time travel back,
But don/'/t we always romanticize the past.
$2,600 for a new car! 58 years from today
They/'/ll say $30,000 for a new car, how cheap was that! |
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Re: Living in 1960
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by Randyjohnson on
Tuesday, 8th May 2018 @ 10:12:11 PM AEST
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| I wasn/'/t alive in 1960 but I wish I had been. Great poem. |
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Re: Living in 1960
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by JamesStockdale on
Saturday, 12th May 2018 @ 01:30:17 PM AEST
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Awesome write and well studied as your norm.
I seem not to move forward so I may as well go backward. If we could dump the wars, I/'/d like to start again in the 1920/'/s. I was happiest then :)
This took time- no doubt............. Nice!!! |
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Re: Living in 1960
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by speedy on
Saturday, 12th May 2018 @ 10:01:12 PM AEST
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| I wasn/'/t born in 1960 - I/'/m turning 38 soon. Great write though! |
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Re: Living in 1960
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by Former_Member on
Sunday, 13th May 2018 @ 04:05:58 AM AEST
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1961 was a good year
but it was boom time
they were building
they were still getting
over the war
they were thinking
that cars would soon
fly and anything was possible
and still there was racism
big time
I was 2 when they held the march
on Washington D.C.
Of course I don/'/t remember
it firsthand
but something was in the air
you could feel it at the close
of the decade / the past
and/ the next couple of decades
Like going forward a bit and then
a calamity of going back
Uncle Miltie, Ed Sullivan
It was always a really big
shoe
You know the show.
The Beatles, and the
oil embargo that ensued
after the Vietnam war
I guess I like economics
and the idea regarding the true
price that was paid
and is continually paid
by the people you never
hear from
much
Bobby Day/'/s hit, Rockin/'/ Robin
was released in /'/58
I remember we had a small
record table when I was
a kid that played that song
It stuck with me
my whole life
Peace! |
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