A mini frisbee worked well also.And you took it home to use as a tray to deseed yer pot...Along with drive-in movies, I miss drive-in restaurants where they put a tray on your car window.
Pffft...a real hippy used a Frisbee.
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A mini frisbee worked well also.And you took it home to use as a tray to deseed yer pot...Along with drive-in movies, I miss drive-in restaurants where they put a tray on your car window.
Pffft...a real hippy used a Frisbee.
What Things Cost in 1949: Car: $1,650 Gasoline: 26 cents/gal House: $14,500 Bread: 14 cents/loaf Milk: 84 cents/gal Postage Stamp: 3 cents Stock Market: 200 Average Annual Salary: $3,600 Minimum Wage: 40 cents per hour |
Remember dime pay toilets?
Remember 45 records? Do you remember what the 45 means?
Did you buy soda for a nickel?
Did you pay double-digit/gallon for gas?
Remember Jarts with the sharp metal tips?
Remember the Tonka dump truck an elephant could step on?
"I bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and...." complete the sentence.
I was .10 in 1949. Here are some prices
1949 Ford
What Things Cost in 1949:
Car: $1,650
Gasoline: 26 cents/gal
House: $14,500
Bread: 14 cents/loaf
Milk: 84 cents/gal
Postage Stamp: 3 cents
Stock Market: 200
Average Annual Salary: $3,600
Minimum Wage: 40 cents per hour
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Sodas, candy bars, ice cream sticks, chewing gum, pay phone call all 5 cents.
comic book 10 cents
pack of cigarettes 10 cents, carton $1.00 (started smoking in 1950)
hot dog 15 cents
ice cream soda,milk shake 15 cents
hamburger, movie ticket 25 cents
MLB bleacher seat 50 cents (at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh)
A mini frisbee worked well also.And you took it home to use as a tray to deseed yer pot...Along with drive-in movies, I miss drive-in restaurants where they put a tray on your car window.
Pffft...a real hippy used a Frisbee.
I embedded one of those bumper jacks in the hood of a 76 Cadillac. It is very important to make sure the car is in park after a blowout.Your car jack weighed a ton
I embedded one of those bumper jacks in the hood of a 76 Cadillac. It is very important to make sure the car is in park after a blowout.Your car jack weighed a ton
Bench seats in cars. So your gal could sit next to you while you drove. Without seat belts.
I still remember how pissed we all were when those annoying buzzers for seatbelts were put in cars.