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03-31-2009, 09:32 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Yesterday - A Little Nostalgia for the Old Folks
Ran across this while using The Google this morning -
Damn, it doesn't really seem like all that long ago when I was a college sophomore... 
1968 Prices:
House $40,000.00
Car $2,450.00
Milk $1.21
Gas $.34
Bread $.22
Postage Stamp: $0.06
Avg. Income $7,844.00
President: Lyndon Johnson
V.P.: Hubert Humphrey
1968 Top Songs:
HEY JUDE - BEATLES
GREEN TAMBOURINE - LEMON PIPERS
LOVE IS BLUE - PAUL MARIAT
MRS. ROBINSON - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
LOVE CHILD - SUPREMES
TIGHTEN UP - ARCHIE BELL & DRELLS
LADY MADONNA - BEATLES
HELLO I LOVE YOU - DOORS |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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04-01-2009, 01:55 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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you know, doing the perectages based on costs and avergae income, we're not any worse off than we were 40 years ago.
unfortunately still at war.
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04-01-2009, 02:52 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Yup, shortly after I posted that and did the quick arithmetic - with the exception of milk, everything is proportianate in terms of pricing to income -
Just multiple everything by 10 and see what it looks like compared to the wages and cost of living in 2009 - not much has changed by percentage of income at all, really
And as for the war(s) now and then, in '68 at least we stood up on our hind legs and did something about it - as opposed to '01 thru '09, when damned few had the balls to say a frigging thing...... ...
Last edited by Crafty Angler; 04-01-2009 at 02:58 PM..
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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04-01-2009, 02:55 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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no commies drove passenger planes into our buildings
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04-01-2009, 03:00 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
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And Saddam had nothing to do with that, either -  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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04-01-2009, 03:03 PM
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sick of bluefish
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very true
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