Well, was cleaning up around the shop here, and entered an area that I have not touched or seen. What I found was a newspaper from 1954! It was a local paper still printing today, the Calgary Herald! Looking through it I wish I was still back then with the money I am making now, I could easily rent a house for $150! Plus movies for 24 cents! What a time! Though I would only be earning a few pennies an hour...
What a find...
Shows how often some areas around here are cleaned too...
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
GAs was probably $.18 and cigs were probably $.24
Posted by Jeff Green (Member # 3508) on :
For someone so young (myself included) it is hard to imagine anything that cheap in this day in age. But, I always have to remind myself that in that time, working for $1 an hour was one hell of a pay!
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Jeff - try fifty cents an hour or less with no minimum wage.
Yep, movies were ten cents and gas was .17 or .19...or maybe even .12 if there was a gas war going on (not to be confused with any present war).
Wonder what the prices will be 50 years from now?
Posted by rene st-pierre (Member # 4116) on :
the most far i can remember i have pay my chip .25$ an my smoke 1.75$ the pack......take bus for .25$........ inflation is for all an the price go up fast i remember see music concert in 1985 for 17$ now the same is 85$an more....... an the money each people made in houre is not the same too...........juste think same as all the cost of live is expensive be happy is free c-ya an be happy
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
I quit smoking cigs after the first time I bought my own pack ion 8th grade. I realized at $.55 a pack... that was several Snickers bars I wouldn't be able to afford for each pack of smokes I bought.
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