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What $5.63 Bought Back In 1962...The American Food Store
Youtube ^ | 5/30/2011 | Youtube

Posted on 05/29/2011 10:23:38 PM PDT by Dallas59



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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Education; Food; History
KEYWORDS: 1962; educational; film; food
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A pleasure to watch.
1 posted on 05/29/2011 10:23:46 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

I was about that young boys age in 1962. Kids behaved in public or we got our butts swatted.


2 posted on 05/29/2011 10:34:31 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Dallas59

I especially liked the commenter who calculated the cost of groceries in today’s prices/wages. Really makes you think...especially if, like me, you went grocery shopping today and went googly-eyed at the price of certain things.

But hey, Washington says there’s no inflation. So, no worries! And we’ve always been at war with EastAsia!


3 posted on 05/29/2011 10:38:27 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo man is *always* intense!)
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To: unkus

I wasn’t around in ‘62, but my parents had the same philosophy. Us kids behaved in public or we got our backsides warmed. It never ceases to amaze me the behavior some parents will allow from their children in a store or a restaurant these days.


4 posted on 05/29/2011 10:43:25 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo man is *always* intense!)
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Dad made $25 a week...almost 6 bucks for food was alot.


5 posted on 05/29/2011 10:44:23 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: unkus
Yep, me too. Was swatted more than I can remember. Deserved each and every one too.

In today's world, you speak tough at a kid and you go to jail.

Dang nannyState!

6 posted on 05/29/2011 10:45:57 PM PDT by redshawk (Hey 0pansy. I'm scratching my nose too; and not with my index finger!)
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To: Dallas59
According to Mom, our total household budget was OneBuck per day. Half of that I made selling papers.
7 posted on 05/29/2011 10:48:09 PM PDT by redshawk (Hey 0pansy. I'm scratching my nose too; and not with my index finger!)
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To: Dallas59

I’m having a tougher and tougher time watching stuff like this. It makes me so melancholic when I think about what America was.


8 posted on 05/29/2011 10:53:09 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Dallas59

Thanks. I was six in 62. Same car and almost identical store. Paper only and no plastic. $5.63! Paychecks average about 100 a week and the split level mortgage was $82. Car payments were less than $10 a month and Mom stayed at home to take care of the four of us. Shoes were a bit on the expensive side. Our family also had money left over to save. What more can I say. Thank you inflation and fiat currency.


9 posted on 05/29/2011 10:56:06 PM PDT by PA Engineer (SP12: Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: redshawk

Yep, we’d be bailing our parents out of jail today. My Dad would be 93 now and he’d be sick if he saw the world today. He was a World War II vet and they were definately old school.


10 posted on 05/29/2011 10:56:47 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Dallas59

Actually, the copyright date on the film is 1957 (MCMLVII), not 1962 (MCMLXII). The hairstyles also give it away!


11 posted on 05/29/2011 11:02:16 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus

I do too.

But every generation thirsts for the past.

We are going down a strange road. But perhaps the upstanding youth (and there are many) will carry us to a secure future.

This country will never be as in our youth again..but maybe the current youth can carry us forward in a positive direction.

That is my prayer.


12 posted on 05/29/2011 11:04:12 PM PDT by berdie (qill)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
The hairstyles also give it away!

I saw that after the post, but my Mom's hair and dress were the same. Cars tended to rust out after a few short years. There have been some improvements.
13 posted on 05/29/2011 11:06:29 PM PDT by PA Engineer (SP12: Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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To: unkus
Mom, GrandMom, and GreatGrandMom, all sewed the clothes for the family. They taught me right & wrong. They put the cardboard in my shoes too.

My GrandDad would be sad too, how the USA has evolved.

14 posted on 05/29/2011 11:08:58 PM PDT by redshawk (Hey 0pansy. I'm scratching my nose too; and not with my index finger!)
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To: redshawk

I was born in 1951 and I think you and I are about the same age because we have similar memories.


15 posted on 05/29/2011 11:12:41 PM PDT by unkus
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To: Dallas59
Yeah, well .. youtube sidebars are addicting.

I don't know whether to thank you or curse you

16 posted on 05/29/2011 11:13:08 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Dallas59

In 1962 we had a family of three, I was making couple bucks an hour and thought I picking in tall cotton. In 1963 we bought our first new car, a Plymouth Valiant, $1700.00 out the door.


17 posted on 05/29/2011 11:15:12 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Being an autodidact, I happily escaped the bureaucratization of intellect)
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To: Dallas59
Take that $5.63 in change--dimes and quarters, which were .90 silver. Toss the pennies (likely wheat backed, maybe an Indian Head penny in a jar).

Now for the silver: 5.60 times .72 (ounces of silver in $1.00 face value coinage at 90%) equals 4.032 ounces of silver, worth 37.96/oz. spot at the time of this posting, or $153.05 in today's market.

One of those silver quarters is worth $6.83 today (as silver), still better than a gallon of gas...

Sure wish I still had the dimes I fed Coke machines back in the day...

18 posted on 05/29/2011 11:20:15 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: PA Engineer
And for the most part...we all enjoy modern improvements.

Computers, microwaves, cell phones and on and on.

The morals that many claim have declined, maybe true. But I think that is a result of “an easy life”.

I can't tell the young not to take advantage of the conveniences our world offers, when I am not willing to deny it myself.

19 posted on 05/29/2011 11:27:47 PM PDT by berdie (qill)
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To: Dallas59

In 1962, my parent’s nearly new, California ranch-style 3-2-2 was worth around $15,000 and the monthly mortgage payment was around $100 a month.

I’ve often said that the real value of things doesn’t change a whole lot - only our paper money does. I’m sure that you could buy the same (or equivalent) house today for the same amount of gold that it would have fetched when it was new.


20 posted on 05/29/2011 11:29:19 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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