I remember going to the corner convenience store and buying a piece of candy for a penny.Originally Posted by arturs
I remember going to the corner convenience store and buying a piece of candy for a penny.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
Dr. Arthur Pappas. He was an orthopedist at Mass. General and the Red Sox team doctor for a few decades. They recently named a hospital school for disabled children after him, just a few streets from where I live. Compared to him, Brezhnev had normal eyebrows.
15 cents for a slice of pizza
25 cents (tax incl.) for a pack of cigs
12 cents for a 12oz. bottle of Mission orange soda (& you got back 2 cents deposit on return)
A (good) burger and fries for, believe it or not, 30 cents & it wasn't White Castle (those were 12 cents apiece)
$2.98 for most vinyl pop & rock albums
I remember all of those growing up in Sunnyside, Queens.
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
... when you can remember progressive music being popular music!
If that was in 1953, then...
$2.30 for the pack of cigarettes
$1.10 for the orange soda
$2.70 for the burger and fries / white castle burger $1.10
$27.00 for that album in 2017 dollars
See the bold?
....when you can remember gas at 27 cents a gallon....
Why not one more... That was $2.50 in today's dollars, about the price right now.
...when you remember that $5 used to buy gas, get you something to eat, and buy a 6 pack! and what a great evening!
Think more like 1958, when I stupidly started knowing how much cigs were at 13.If that was in 1953, then...
$2.30 for the pack of cigarettes
$1.10 for the orange soda
$2.70 for the burger and fries / white castle burger $1.10
$27.00 for that album in 2017 dollars
See the bold?
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Didn't he also play Salacious B. Crumb?
Mid 70s.. Kenny's burgers were .15 cents a pack of Marlboros .50 cents Albums $4.37
Never heard of him.
Yes I'm old
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... when you switch from the Jimmy Fallon Show to Johnny Carson show reruns on a regular basis!
Oh look honey, Dr. Ruth is on Johnny tonight!
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
I'm old enough to remember buying gas for $0.84 a gallon, $.055 for a comic book, and I saw Van Halen for $28.00.
Good point. They do send out buttloads of stuff.
I was at a Chevron station today and the guy in front of me bought a tin of Copenhagen for a ridiculous amount. When I commented to the cashier, she said "you think that's bad, cigarettes are over $8 a pack, now!" (I'm in CA.)
Going up to $13 a pack here this summer. I quit when they were about $4-, 15 years ago.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
Wow, you'd think at that price people would only buy Gitanes or something, and there'd be a magazine called "Cigarette Aficionado."
I remember when people in NYC were outraged when movie ticket prices went from $2.75 to $5.00.
Not just them...all their affiliates.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
When I worked in Indiana in 66-67, a pack of cigs and a gallon of gas were the same price, 19c.....
Dave Sr.
I prefer Nature to Human Nature
At your service...
15 cents for a slice of pizza
25 cents (tax incl.) for a pack of cigs
12 cents for a 12oz. bottle of Mission orange soda (& you got back 2 cents deposit on return)
A (good) burger and fries for, believe it or not, 30 cents & it wasn't White Castle (those were 12 cents apiece)
$2.98 for most vinyl pop & rock albums
I remember all of those growing up in Sunnyside, Queens.
If 1958, then in today's dollars that would be:
$1.30 for a slice of pizza
$2.15 for cigarettes
$1.00 for the 12 oz. bottle of orange soda [today orange sunkist costs $1.00 for 16 oz.]
$2.55 for a good hamburger and fries, $1.00 for a White Castle burger
$25.50 for a pop/rock album
Man, you guys are OLD!!!
I remember when there used to be pay phones, is that old?
It's funny to me now, but when I went to my first Nearfest in 2001, the thing that struck me most was how young I felt compared to most of those around me. I was 32.
Now, only a couple years out from 50, I STILL feel like I'm the young guy at prog shows.
Actually though, even at that Nearfest, I saw a couple younger people......couple teenagers and a few college age. That seems to have stayed consistent over the years in my experience, more or less.
I only remember vinyl albums being 6-8$, more for doubles and triples. I remember when CD's first came out and they were like 15-18$ each!! Wait...........I guess some things never change (of course, in 1985 dollars, $15 for a CD was a much bigger investment than it is now......not to mention the price of an actual CD player).
yep, a CD in 1985 that was $15 is the same as $35 today.
Every decade there is a major shift in music:
1950s Rock and Roll and the transistor radio that Sony sold in droves partly because of the popularity of Elvis Presley.
1960s Beatles Mania, 8 track tapes
1970s Prog, synthesizers, Lite FM in the morning, disco, better turntables and speakers, cassette tapes
1980s the rise of the hair band, the walkman and CDs.
1990s grunge, even more rap, MP3s, Pro Tools, inexpensive CD walkmans
2000s the ipod and as Steve Howe gushed about downloading: "This is the golden era of free music."
2010s music on youtube takes off, virtual reality concerts coming up
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