Things you could order over 50 years ago that you can't order now !

[SouthernSky]

Cubs game. $1.00 for the grandstands, $2.00 for the bleachers.

And I disliked mustard and relish on the hotdogs.

 

[5030]

Plus they rode like an 8N Ford.

I beg to differ with you on that point. They might have been cruder but there are still a helluva lot of them around today. Still have my August 66 issue of Road and Track and on the back cover is a Shelby Mustang 500 KR fastback, white with blue racing stripes and centered exhaust for 3500 bucks. Should have bought one back than. Today they are worth about 400 grand in Bristol condition.

 

[Jstpssng]

I beg to differ with you on that point. They might have been cruder but there are still a helluva lot of them around today. Still have my August 66 issue of Road and Track and on the back cover is a Shelby Mustang 500 KR fastback, white with blue racing stripes and centered exhaust for 3500 bucks. Should have bought one back than. Today they are worth about 400 grand in Bristol condition.

That doesn't change a thing. A Shelby isn't exactly a run of the mill car, and if used by somebody as a daily driver it still would have needed regular attention to keep it going.

 

[ultrarunner]

You could order a bank savings or checking account without volumes of disclosures that sometimes all change in a couple of months..

I was 13 earning a weekly paycheck and the Bank of America branch manager said anyone with a regular paycheck is welcome to open an account… I had been going Friday’s after work just to cash my check but instead said OK and opened my account… no parents or co-signer!

 

[ultrarunner]

I beg to differ with you on that point. They might have been cruder but there are still a helluva lot of them around today. Still have my August 66 issue of Road and Track and on the back cover is a Shelby Mustang 500 KR fastback, white with blue racing stripes and centered exhaust for 3500 bucks. Should have bought one back than. Today they are worth about 400 grand in Bristol condition.

This is the car I road around in as a teen… it was owned by my uncles friend and Shelby GT350 number 1

And it was a daily driver for many years…

1966 SHELBY GT350 PROTOTYPE #001 - Vehicle | Barrett-Jackson Auction Company - World's Greatest Collector Car Auctions

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[SouthernSky]

You could order a bank savings or checking account without volumes of disclosures that sometimes all change in a couple of months..

I was 13 earning a weekly paycheck and the Bank of America branch manager said anyone with a regular paycheck is welcome to open an account… I had been going Friday’s after work just to cash my check but instead said OK and opened my account… no parents or co-signer!

And in the late sixties or early seventies I was earning 7-8% on that passbook account.

 

[ultrarunner]

Once in awhile in the 70’s Dad would take us to an Italian resteraunt called Bertolas in Oakland where the menu was on a blackboard over the bar.

You could order Well Drinks at 50 cents, Call Drinks at 75 cents and Premium Drink for a buck…

Just something I remember as a kid… plus their hot bread with butter best ever…

 

[tallyho8]

1965 New Orleans area. My favorite bar had draft beer in frozen mugs for 15 cents. Gambling pinball machines were 5 cents. A brand-new stripped-down Mustang was $2222. Gas was 27.9 cents. Diesel was cheaper as was kerosene and mineral spirits. A 10 ounce returnable bottle Coke was 10 cents with a 2-cent deposit. A 6 pack of beer was 99 cents.
An old running car that might last you 10,000 miles before it goes kaput was $100. When it went kaput you towed it to another neighborhood and left it because scrap metal was worth nothing.

Prestigious jobs at that time were postman and bus driver and usually only went to well-educated white men. Drive-in movies were $1 each but we still hid a couple in the trunk. Pay phones were 5 cents. Gas station workers got $1 per hour to pump gas, check oil and tires and clean windshield and hand the person the right amount of S&H green stamps for their purchase. Crime was very low, and marijuana was unheard of in the suburbs.

Diapers were washable, milk was delivered, the daily paper was $2.20 a month and Dairy Queen ice cream cones were still 5 cents. All your friends were fighting in Viet Nam and some were coming back uninjured. I don't know how much interest banks were paying on deposits because I never had a spare quarter to my name.

 

[tree farmer]

In the 7th grade, the neighbor kid and I both got JC Higgens single shot .22 rifles for Christmas from our parents. We took them to school on the bus for show and tell when school started again after Christmas break. The bus driver made us sit in the front seat so he could keep an eye on us. I still have mine 63 years later....Dan.

 

[grsthegreat]

in Texas in the 1980's you could get a tall glass of Lonestar beer for $.25

and at that price it was still overpriced by about 23 cents.