Are You Old?

[Moonglow]

Along with drive-in movies, I miss drive-in restaurants where they put a tray on your car window.

And you took it home to use as a tray to deseed yer pot...

Pffft...a real hippy used a Frisbee.

A mini frisbee worked well also.

 

[Hossfly]

I was .10 in 1949. Here are some prices

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​

1949 Ford

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)

 

[Sun Devil 92]

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 saw an aluminum ice tray the other day...the kind with the pull handle.

 

[Hossfly]

I was .10 in 1949. Here are some prices

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​

1949 Ford
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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)

Also, beer cans needed an opener (church key)

 

[Sun Devil 92]

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[Sun Devil 92]

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[HereWeGoAgain]

Along with drive-in movies, I miss drive-in restaurants where they put a tray on your car window.

And you took it home to use as a tray to deseed yer pot...

Pffft...a real hippy used a Frisbee.

A mini frisbee worked well also.

I guess for a dime bag...
Always used a full sized tucked under the drivers seat.

 

[Missourian]

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.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

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.

When I was a kid I worked at a used car lot.
Jacked up the the ass end of a 72 Cutlass to change a tire and I didnt fully engage the jack in the last stroke and it tossed the handle up on the trunk lid and dented the shit out of it.
Ooops....

 

[Batcat]

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.

I remember cars without seatbelts. I was the passenger in an accident in a Volkswagen beetle that didn’t have seatbelts. The driver rear ended a stopped car and I took the windshield out with my face. Had scratches all over my face but never had to go to the hospital.

 

[DGS49]

Seatbelts? We used to crawl all over the car while driving on the highway.

My cousin tried to install seatbelts in his '56 Chevy and the Staties told him he had to remove it because it wasn't Factory.

Cars in the 50's were really bad. Within a few years they all had rust. Flat tires were a fairly regular event. Cars needed a tuneup every year or so...points, plugs, condenser, re-set the timing. Exhaust systems and mufflers required regular replacement, as they all rusted out. Most cars had 2-speed automatic transmissions. The three-speed Torqueflite was a big advance.