Posted on 07/11/2014 1:17:40 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Wish I had had a crystal ball back then and I might have kept more change from the “olden days”. My grandpa sent me two dimes every week in the mail - probably around the mid 1940’s - rolled up in a piece of paper inside the Sunday cartoons. A neighbor girlfriend who lived two miles away and I would walk up to our nearest store, couple of miles the other direction and get two real Cokes in green glass bottles and two candy bars.
Spent my entire $.20 but was the highlight of our lives back then. We were only six or seven but it was totally safe for us to walk everywhere by ourselves. Only worry we ever had was that the Jackard’s family bull would get out of their fenced pasture and chase us. Great memories which I really think I’d rather have than the dimes.
in Santa Ana in 1965 it was 26 cents/gallon at the local
el cheapo station.
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