And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I worked there in 1970 at age 15, for $1.25/hour and enjoyed it. Straight burgers were 19 cents each + 4% tax meant you got "change" back from your dollar when you bought 5. We had to be proficient all the stations (took months) before we were allowed to work the counter. Now a days they put the stupidest people that can find on the counter. No females worked there then. Everything much better then.
The Arches were more expensive than some places around town when I was in HS. Several joints offered 5 hamburgers for $1.00. Also, at Taco Bell, I could get 3 regular items (taco, burrito, Bell Burger, refries, or tostada) and a large soda and get change back from a dollar. I miss the enchirito. I could also get a 2-egg breakfast with 3 large pancakes for 99 cents. Ah, the good old times when gas was $0.26 and 9/10 and my 1963 Chrysler 300 got about 9 miles to the gallon and could hold 6 people in comfort, 8 if you were real close friends.
Heck, back in 1964 I remember paying 27 cents a gallon for gas, getting a fist full of H&S Green stamps and a dinner plate too. Then I'd drive to the only MacDonalds in the area, in River Edge, NJ, for a burger, fries, soda and got change back from a buck..
I remember the first time I went to a McDonald's - 1964, Spokane WA. Burgers were 15 cents. I remember being upset that my folks were taking us to such a cheap place, how good, or awful, could a 15 cent burger be ? They were okay, as I remember.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/4oBpdBn5GZw 1969 commercial: "At McDonald's, when you pay for two hamburgers, french fries, and a Coke, you get change back from your dollar."
It was plenty, for a 15yo. Then, as expected, I moved up the ladder, got better jobs with more money, learned stuff along the way, became more experienced, and in a few years I was a full fledged adult and started making a fambly. Since that path was successful, as it almost always is, I continued on it for the next 50 years, and still. When I see grown adults working at jobs meant as "starting out" for teenagers, I see abject failure and I have no sympathy for them. They earned it.
That "path" is not always as successful as you make it out to be and now the Democrats have pretty much made your little plan impossible for a lot of people.
The only people that that method fails are the failures themselves and those type of people have always existed. I'm not going to defend the obstacles the lying dems have erected but neither am I going to defend the cowardly reps that facilitated. There is a saying in the old country that goes something like this: "When the rules get tougher the people get sneakier.", the people being "We the people...".
Royal Castle.....breakfast was 2 eggs hash browns and coffee for .69, with bacon .89.....had great chili as well.....Royal Burger was pretty much like a Whopper, for .69, and the regular little hamburgers, similar to White Castle, were .15....minimum wage was 1.60 and gas was .23 to .30 gallon....dollar went much further but there were less of them.....when I graduated from high school, I remember thinking if I could just clear 100 bucks a week, could buy a house, have a new car....went to work and brought home 72.00 a week if I worked half a day on Saturday. made out just fine on that.....my kids said they wouldn't even leave the driveway for 12.00 a day....
My Sis was 8 years older and my Bro was 6 years older then me. I am from a small city in Southern California and was born in the late 50s and grew up in the 60s and 70s. My parents had been really poor when they had me and worked their way out of it plus graduated college. Our house was the first they had owned.
I remember mom taking us to McDs but at the time you walked up to it and ordered and they made everything fresh and you ate outside or in the car. My Sis worked her first job at Burger King and we started eating there. The smog in LA bothered me so my parents sent me every summer to AZ to my Grandparents once I was 4. I worked with my Grandpa, who was a gardener all summer in the 105-115 heat until I was 13, but my grandparents paid me nothing but I got a place to live, food, and once a week we would go to the drive-in movies. My brother worked in a auto parts store and then after HS he was off to Vietnam and the Army. I worked on lawns in the area after I was 13 and when I was 16 worked in a buffet as a cook and I made a little over $1.65 an hour. Gas was .22 for reg.
Those are around the prices from when I worked at MacDonald's in the summer of '71. As if I would remember exact prices.
ReplyDeleteI do remember them having an ad campaign that you get a Big Mac, Fries and a Coke for a dollar, so it's a few cents more on some items.
I worked there in 1970 at age 15, for $1.25/hour and enjoyed it. Straight burgers were 19 cents each + 4% tax meant you got "change" back from your dollar when you bought 5. We had to be proficient all the stations (took months) before we were allowed to work the counter. Now a days they put the stupidest people that can find on the counter. No females worked there then. Everything much better then.
DeleteThe Arches were more expensive than some places around town when I was in HS. Several joints offered 5 hamburgers for $1.00. Also, at Taco Bell, I could get 3 regular items (taco, burrito, Bell Burger, refries, or tostada) and a large soda and get change back from a dollar. I miss the enchirito. I could also get a 2-egg breakfast with 3 large pancakes for 99 cents. Ah, the good old times when gas was $0.26 and 9/10 and my 1963 Chrysler 300 got about 9 miles to the gallon and could hold 6 people in comfort, 8 if you were real close friends.
ReplyDelete5 for $1? Krystal? Or White Castle?
DeleteI was just thinking about how much I liked the enchirito yesterday.
ReplyDeleteHeck, back in 1964 I remember paying 27 cents a gallon for gas, getting a fist full of H&S Green stamps and a dinner plate too. Then I'd drive to the only MacDonalds in the area, in River Edge, NJ, for a burger, fries, soda and got change back from a buck..
ReplyDeleteI remember the first time I went to a McDonald's - 1964, Spokane WA. Burgers were 15 cents. I remember being upset that my folks were taking us to such a cheap place, how good, or awful, could a 15 cent burger be ? They were okay, as I remember.
ReplyDelete1975 BK had a loyalty card. The punch they used was in the shape of burger. It was like buy 10 hamburgers get one free.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/embed/4oBpdBn5GZw
ReplyDelete1969 commercial: "At McDonald's, when you pay for two hamburgers, french fries, and a Coke, you get change back from your dollar."
Well, under the rubric that "The first liar doesn't have a chance"...
ReplyDeleteIn 1961, in Omaha Nebraska, Micky D's Hamburger was 15 cents, an order of fries was 15 cents, and a milkshake was...15 cents.
I remember those commercials - "45 cents for a 3 course meal"
DeleteWorked at McDonald's 68-69. 90 cents an hour. Pointed hat and all.
ReplyDeleteWAY back then the food was almost worth the price, almost. Today you would be better off eating the package it comes in if you wanted nutrition.
ReplyDeleteYes it's true I could eat lunch for about a dollar, but it took me a half an hour to earn that dollar.
ReplyDeleteWell, a 2022 USD will buy 19 cents worth of the above menu (1972 I think).
DeleteI'd take the $2/hr.
See what the Democrat party has done to the US dollar? It's not the prices - it how much your dollar will buy.
ReplyDeleteYes....low prices. And low wages. What was minimum wage then? $1.50 an hour? Maybe?
ReplyDeleteIt was plenty, for a 15yo. Then, as expected, I moved up the ladder, got better jobs with more money, learned stuff along the way, became more experienced, and in a few years I was a full fledged adult and started making a fambly. Since that path was successful, as it almost always is, I continued on it for the next 50 years, and still. When I see grown adults working at jobs meant as "starting out" for teenagers, I see abject failure and I have no sympathy for them. They earned it.
DeleteThat "path" is not always as successful as you make it out to be and now the Democrats have pretty much made your little plan impossible for a lot of people.
DeleteThe only people that that method fails are the failures themselves and those type of people have always existed. I'm not going to defend the obstacles the lying dems have erected but neither am I going to defend the cowardly reps that facilitated. There is a saying in the old country that goes something like this: "When the rules get tougher the people get sneakier.", the people being "We the people...".
DeleteRoyal Castle.....breakfast was 2 eggs hash browns and coffee for .69, with bacon .89.....had great chili as well.....Royal Burger was pretty much like a Whopper, for .69, and the regular little hamburgers, similar to White Castle, were .15....minimum wage was 1.60 and gas was .23 to .30 gallon....dollar went much further but there were less of them.....when I graduated from high school, I remember thinking if I could just clear 100 bucks a week, could buy a house, have a new car....went to work and brought home 72.00 a week if I worked half a day on Saturday. made out just fine on that.....my kids said they wouldn't even leave the driveway for 12.00 a day....
ReplyDeleteMy Sis was 8 years older and my Bro was 6 years older then me. I am from a small city in Southern California and was born in the late 50s and grew up in the 60s and 70s. My parents had been really poor when they had me and worked their way out of it plus graduated college. Our house was the first they had owned.
ReplyDeleteI remember mom taking us to McDs but at the time you walked up to it and ordered and they made everything fresh and you ate outside or in the car. My Sis worked her first job at Burger King and we started eating there. The smog in LA bothered me so my parents sent me every summer to AZ to my Grandparents once I was 4. I worked with my Grandpa, who was a gardener all summer in the 105-115 heat until I was 13, but my grandparents paid me nothing but I got a place to live, food, and once a week we would go to the drive-in movies. My brother worked in a auto parts store and then after HS he was off to Vietnam and the Army. I worked on lawns in the area after I was 13 and when I was 16 worked in a buffet as a cook and I made a little over $1.65 an hour. Gas was .22 for reg.