You can very easily.... EASILY live a 1960s life style on minimum wage today.
Not where I live.
As I recall, in 1967 the California minimum wage was $1.75 a hour; my rent was $75 a month in Santa Monica which was (and is) a relatively high rent area. My car was 7 years old, and a single minimum wage job allowed me to pay it off and maintain it. I haven't been able to afford a car since 1993. My home technology was limited to a landline and a radio. Today in California the minimum wage is $12 an hour, and it would barely cover the market rent on any apartment similar to the one I lived in half-a-century ago.
Right, but you are in a socialist hell hole. Yeah, in California you can't live on nearly anything.
But that is because you voted for socialists idiots that ruined your cities.
You, and those like you, voted for socialism in California, through controls and regulations.
You screwed yourself.
This is why I'm entirely against government bailing out California. You did this to yourself.