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To: stockpirate

And what was your weekly wage back then? What was the minimum wage (if it even existed)?

39 posted on 02/22/2014 11:24:23 AM PST by Alas Babylon!

To: Alas Babylon!

When they inflate the dollar everything gets inflated, so your pay does too just not as much.

55 posted on 02/23/2014 8:12:17 AM PST by stockpirate (It appears good men have decided to do nothing, so evil is prevailing......)

To: Alas Babylon!

“Minimum wage” in the late ‘60s was $1.60 per hour, to the best of my recollection.

That’s what I was getting paid as a drywall-sander. One of the worst jobs I ever had.

56 posted on 02/23/2014 1:09:04 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

To: Alas Babylon!; nascarnation

And for that $1.60, I could buy five to six gallons of gasoline.

59 posted on 02/23/2014 1:20:53 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

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