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.
Yes, . . . at the bowling alley.
ReplyDeleteWhere we first went when we got enough change to buy our first pack of cigarettes...
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Back when a pack of smokes was 35 cents. I remember when a Hershey bar was a dime. Early to mid 60's.
DeleteGotcha beat, I can remember when it was a nickel at the neighborhood candy store, mid '50s.
DeleteThat satisfying 'chunk' sound as you pulled out the lever and your selection dropped into the tray.
ReplyDeleteThey came out well after I was born darn it.
ReplyDeleteThe cigarette machines too.
ReplyDeleteNecco!!!!
ReplyDeleteBarney and Anon: Nobody likes a bragger!
ReplyDeleteWhere are the caramel creams?
ReplyDeleteCigs & Candy, circa 1953. Fast forward 70 years and the dispensing machines are putting out Narcan nasal spray. We've come a long way, baby.
ReplyDeleteNot seeing the Beeman's pepsin gum, or the Black Jack chewing gum either. Not an airport, then.
ReplyDeleteWhere's the Chuckles? My dad was a huge nut goodie fan.
ReplyDeleteKids have no idea what they missed
ReplyDeleteLots of melted chocolate too.
ReplyDelete25¢ for a Hershey Bar? Robbery.
ReplyDeleteThat's early 80s.
They were a nickel until 1969, and a dime into the mid-70s and didn't hit 20 cents until the mid/late 70s.
The price of sugar was only 2¢ of the cost per bar, for all of that time.