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 remember back in about 1960 when full size candy bars like that were $.05. There was one made with chocolate and ground peanuts call a Lunch Bar. Those were the same size, but only cost $.03. Naturally, I got the Lunch Bar and had 2 cents left over from my nickle to get four penny pretzels (2 for a penny) or some penny candy.
When growing up, empty pop bottles were like free money! I always scouted around while just walking from one place to the next, just to keep myself in some "spending money"! irontomflint
My comparison is that a 90% silver dime from 1964 and before is worth about $1.70 today based on the price of silver. And the value of a dime didn't drop that much even with less silver until Nixon got us off the gold standard. A nickle candy bar would be half that today, 85 cents, and if it was a quarter, $4.25 today.
I was just looking around today while waiting at a checkout and I noticed a box of Milkey Way bars on the bottom shelf. They were the size that would have been a dime back in the day and these had a $2.35 price on them.
Back in the early to mid-1950's, I vividly remember always have a dime in my pocket in case I needed to make an "emergency" phone call home on a payphone. And once in a while, I'd use that dime for candy.
around 1952 my grandpa came to visit and he always gave me a buffalo nickel and we walked to the corner grocery and i got a candy bar i dont remember how big they were
I remember as a 4 yr old my mother giving me a nickel and I would walk to a little store on the next street over and buy a creamsicle or fudgsicle. (We lived across the street from the town hall and police station.)
In the late Fifties-early Sixties, we could go to the "picture show" and spend the afternoon for 25 cents. The admission was 10 cents, the popcorn and cokes were 5 cents each and that candy bar and all the others were 5 cents. What a time we had watching the "Previews", of the coming attractions, the main feature, the cartoon and a "Serial", usually the Three Stooges or some short segment comedy or Sci-fi adventure,,,, AND, the candy back then tasted so much better.
I can remember my dad and I, he was born in late mid 1930's, me in 1959. I need five bucks to go out tonight. "what the hell for"? 2 dollar door and 50 cent beer, that's what! " Thats outrageous", Thats cheep! And we'd start the IN MY DAY routine, beer was a nickel
Since cocoa farming began with the Aztecs and Mayans around 2,000 BC and the earliest European (white man???) participants were the Spanish in South and Central America during the 16th century, it was the indigenous peoples (not blacks) that were being organized out of their Neolithic existence.
No one (white or black) in the United States had anything to do with it’s origins….
Perhaps it would have been best not to buy blacks in Africa from the Black or Moslem slave traders and have left them in their jungle thatched huts to scratch out a Stone Age existence instead of electing them as DA of Atlanta..
Try again, as I recall it cost 2 bottles, (a nickel refund each).
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a little kid you got two cents for regular sized bottles and a nickle for quarts.
DeleteSame here, late 60's, 2 cents and 5. That candy bar cost a dime then.
DeleteI remember back in about 1960 when full size candy bars like that were $.05. There was one made with chocolate and ground peanuts call a Lunch Bar. Those were the same size, but only cost $.03. Naturally, I got the Lunch Bar and had 2 cents left over from my nickle to get four penny pretzels (2 for a penny) or some penny candy.
ReplyDeleteAlways had pockets of cash as a kid from taking back pop bottle's.
ReplyDeleteWhen growing up, empty pop bottles were like free money! I always scouted around while just walking from one place to the next, just to keep myself in some "spending money"!
ReplyDeleteirontomflint
My comparison is that a 90% silver dime from 1964 and before is worth about $1.70 today based on the price of silver. And the value of a dime didn't drop that much even with less silver until Nixon got us off the gold standard. A nickle candy bar would be half that today, 85 cents, and if it was a quarter, $4.25 today.
ReplyDeleteI was just looking around today while waiting at a checkout and I noticed a box of Milkey Way bars on the bottom shelf.
DeleteThey were the size that would have been a dime back in the day and these had a $2.35 price on them.
Back in the early to mid-1950's, I vividly remember always have a dime in my pocket in case I needed to make an "emergency" phone call home on a payphone. And once in a while, I'd use that dime for candy.
ReplyDeletearound 1952 my grandpa came to visit and he always gave me a buffalo nickel and we walked to the corner grocery and i got a candy bar i dont remember how big they were
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much it cost when white owners forced their slaves to pick cocoa beans in 1798
ReplyDeleteI believe the chocolate you are referring to went to make candy bars named "Polar Bears"
DeleteThanks for reminding me of slavery, with it being black history month.
DeleteThe price for that was a nickel.
ReplyDeleteI remember as a 4 yr old my mother giving me a nickel and I would walk to a little store on the next street over and buy a creamsicle or fudgsicle. (We lived across the street from the town hall and police station.)
ReplyDeleteWhen candy bars cost 5 cents, nobody lost any money making, shipping, storing, or selling them. That's how far money would go in those days.
ReplyDeleteWas a dime when I was a child.
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Yep and tasted a whole lot better.
ReplyDeleteIn the late Fifties-early Sixties, we could go to the "picture show" and spend the afternoon for 25 cents. The admission was 10 cents, the popcorn and cokes were 5 cents each and that candy bar and all the others were 5 cents. What a time we had watching the "Previews", of the coming attractions, the main feature, the cartoon and a "Serial", usually the Three Stooges or some short segment comedy or Sci-fi adventure,,,, AND, the candy back then tasted so much better.
ReplyDeleteI can remember my dad and I, he was born in late mid 1930's, me in 1959. I need five bucks to go out tonight. "what the hell for"? 2 dollar door and 50 cent beer, that's what! " Thats outrageous", Thats cheep! And we'd start the IN MY DAY routine, beer was a nickel
ReplyDeleteSince cocoa farming began with the Aztecs and Mayans around 2,000 BC and the earliest European (white man???) participants were the Spanish in South and Central America during the 16th century, it was the indigenous peoples (not blacks) that were being organized out of their Neolithic existence.
ReplyDeleteNo one (white or black) in the United States had anything to do with it’s origins….
Perhaps it would have been best not to buy blacks in Africa from the Black or Moslem slave traders and have left them in their jungle thatched huts to scratch out a Stone Age existence instead of electing them as DA of Atlanta..