10 Things You Could Buy For Under $1 In The 1960s #Video

I spent a lot of nickels and dimes at our local five and dime store!

The current price of gasoline is ridiculous

As always - Thanks Mel .
I loved this video , but I have to admit that towards the end my eyes were leaking and I had a lump in my throat . I sent it to anyone I thought would care . I titled it "Glad I Grew Up When I Did"
Stay Safe ! C. G.

True Americana! Wonderful times. We were all civilized back then. So few of us remain these days. The Comic Books. Way back, when kids could read. I just picked up stamps; 82 cents per. USPS should be abolished. They are horrible. Vinyl. The sound was impeccable. Vinyl is back too. Nothing like it. Twister was a blast too. Coffee shops. We were so blessed to come up during that time. Once Nixon took us off the Gold Standard. The National Debt was ushered in. What did Reagan say: Govt IS the problem. Amen to that. They should all be run out of town on a rail. Most of Congress is feckless. They have destroyed our country.

GAS! I could live with the rest...wait, add Mcdonalds eals for a buck!

I enjoy videos like these. They bring back good old memories.

$.15 burgers!

Interesting. But people were paid much less so I think it all evened out.

I was hired by the U.S. Postal Service, in 1961. My Starting Salary was 2.16 Per Hour. $2.37 for work between 6 PM and 6 AM.

GAS!! However, having lived through the 50's and 60's, they fail to mention what was the average workers salary was. I remember my father, a crane operator, made about $3.50/hr. Everything is relative based on the salary at the time. p.s. - I still have about 20,000 - 45rpm records.

The 50's & 60's were the best as kids, and Rock and Roll was always being played and ready to dance. I was blessed to be a teenager; we didn't get involved like the world is today.

I remember those days!

I worked summers at Texaco gas stations in the 60's -65's for $1/ hr (72 hrs/week), After 5 yrs University and Two Majors (Zoo & Psych.) and Organic Chemistry minor, I was able to earn $1.25/hr at Astroworld before Uncle Sam told me i had to go to work for him (drafted 2 yrs).
We had to check the battery fluid, radiator, windshield wiper fluid, tire pressure, and wash the windshield !

Back when the dollar meant something. May parents had a $30.00 a month mortgage, they paid off their loan in 16 years.

What they failed to mention, was the wages were a lot smaller then. I remember when they had gas wars (was when one Service Station sold gas cheaper than the Service Station across the street) regular gas was 15 cents a gallon and 18 cents a gallon. Unless we were on vacation and driving cross country, dad always just bought $2.00 of gas. The first Service Station I worked at when I was 15 years old, paid me $1.00 an hour. I don't know what I did with all that money. But I remember that I thought I was rich every pay day. My first car cost me a whopping $50.00, and my second car was $75. Thanks Mel, for the trip down memory lane.

But a single dollar was hard to get! Our allowance was ten cents. To get a dollar would require 2 1/2 months of chores!

That's why people say "The good ol' days" I worked in a service station in 1960. All very true. All those prices seem impossible today !!

I remember all of those. It would be nice to at least have all of them comparable to wages today instead of it all being so inflated. Even back then we have to remember not everyone made huge wages so those nickel and dime items weren't easy to come by. but it sure was a simpler times

The 25 cent gasoline! And most of all, the 19 cent/gallon diesel fuel.

We’ll never see these prices again. They only get higher and higher.