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#21 Postby bfez1 » Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:55 pm

Just got gas for $1.70, yippee!!! Highest I paid was $2.04. YIKES!
Gas prices, come on down!!!
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Re: I remember

#22 Postby azsnowman » Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:11 pm

bevgo wrote:Remember when you could get $1 gas and drive around all day?


I can remember pumping gas as a kid after school and during the summer for .28 CENTS a gallon :eek: HOLY CRAP....I just gave away my AGE :D I had a Volkswagon Square Back Sedan, I'd pump $5 worth and drive all WEEK on that :eek:

Now....we dropped to $1.84, don't see any further drop until AFTER the 4th of July, you know us business owners, we LOVE to "put the SCREWS" to the tourists :roll: :x

Dennis 8-)
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#23 Postby streetsoldier » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:03 pm

Dennis,

I still remember "gas wars", during which one could get Regular at 19 cents a gallon.

For you young'uns, try to imagine gas, taking your sweetie out on a date with a FINE dinner and a first-run movie at a total cost of about $30...

Those WERE the days! :D
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#24 Postby rainstorm » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:24 pm

streetsoldier wrote:Dennis,

I still remember "gas wars", during which one could get Regular at 19 cents a gallon.

For you young'uns, try to imagine gas, taking your sweetie out on a date with a FINE dinner and a first-run movie at a total cost of about $30...

Those WERE the days! :D


CHEAPSKATE!! :roll: :lol: LOL!!!
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#25 Postby streetsoldier » Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:43 pm

As a teen in 1968, I was NO cheapskate, Helen...quite the contrary, as my habits were envied by the less adroit of my classmates at that time.

"Men respected me, women loved me, and white-tail deer feared me." :wink:
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#26 Postby rainstorm » Thu Jun 17, 2004 5:08 am

streetsoldier wrote:As a teen in 1968, I was NO cheapskate, Helen...quite the contrary, as my habits were envied by the less adroit of my classmates at that time.

"Men respected me, women loved me, and white-tail deer feared me." :wink:


awesome!!
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#27 Postby azsnowman » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:51 am

rainstorm wrote:
streetsoldier wrote:Dennis,

I still remember "gas wars", during which one could get Regular at 19 cents a gallon.

For you young'uns, try to imagine gas, taking your sweetie out on a date with a FINE dinner and a first-run movie at a total cost of about $30...

Those WERE the days! :D


CHEAPSKATE!! :roll: :lol: LOL!!!


Helen, you have NO conception of how inexpensive life USED to be BUT...in the same breath, minimum wage back then was what.....$1.05 an hour :eek: I found an OLD grocery ad in some old newspapers I saved, grocery prices now are ALMOST the same as they were back then. For instance, the ad had tomato sauce, 8 oz. cans for 4/$1.00....Walmarts price today, 5/$1.00 :eek:

Dennis 8-)
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#28 Postby Pburgh » Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:31 am

In the 1970's 1/2 gallon of milk was about $.65, butter was about the $.85 per pound and bread was sometimes $.25 per loaf and 5 for $1!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#29 Postby rainstorm » Thu Jun 17, 2004 8:44 am

ok, soldier was a HIGHROLLER!!!
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