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Jeff Green
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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...

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GAs was probably $.18 and cigs were probably $.24

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Laura Butler
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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!

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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?

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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

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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.

thats easy math even for a 13 yr. old [Smile]

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