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.
$.15 in '55 for a burger = $1.81 today. A double cheesburger at the local joint is 2 Bucks. Probably fake meat. Who knows. Price of gas was .29 cents/gal in '55 Minimum wage in '55 was $1.00 and bought 3 gallons of gas. $15 /hour minimum wage in 2025 gets ya 5 gallons at 20-25 mpg your money goes a lot further.
Your childish ignorant example above is analogous as comparing "apples to horseshit."
Just so that we're very clear about the real facts I'm quoting below "wages and currency vs real money (silver and gold)" and not US fiat, please reference the following: "The inflation rate in the United States between 1955 and today has been 1,103.79%, which translates into a total increase of $1,103.79. This means that 100 dollars in 1955 are equivalent to 1,203.79 dollars in 2025. In other words, the purchasing power of $100 in 1955 equals $1,203.79, or $1 then equals $12.04 in today's fiat dollars. The government's claimed average annual inflation rate between these periods has been 3.62%."
Now the real labor minimum wage in 1955 was $.75/hour. If one uses 3ea. 90% silver quarters as payment, please note that those coins at today's melt value (global spot price x .9) = melt, or $20.45 in fiat dollars. Oh shit, did wages really fall? The .15 to .20 hamburger you quoted...paid for using two 90% silver Roosevelt dimes are valued today at $5.45.
As you can see, real money does not loose it's purchasing power, the POS US fiat toilet paper currency does. It's called debasement. BTW, depending on where you lived, the price of gas 1955, was somewhere between .17 and .29 cents per gallon. Is anyone here old enough to remember gas price wars?
So, take your 2nd grade level BS analysis elsewhere.
Oh, and a burger at Mickey D's today is $2.19. Before we compare the size and weight of a 1955 burger with the bite-sized hockey pucks McD's calls hamburgers, and palms off on customers today.
Some great ones today C.W. Everyone should do the coast hiway. Did it in my '75 C-J5 Jeep (a Kaiser). Always get swept back to my teenage years with your "mud and or snow" shots.
#2, Tent, kitchen, boat & the sea.. I like it! #3, that looks like a runway right out of the garage! #5, a pretty girl in VW! That about makes this Friday collection complete ... the VW ON the beach in #12 does the job!
Drove a 59 Buick (not as nice as this one) from MN to Calif and back in 1970…up and down the coast…what a cruiser…,
ReplyDelete$.15 in '55 for a burger = $1.81 today. A double cheesburger at the local joint is 2 Bucks. Probably fake meat. Who knows. Price of gas was .29 cents/gal in '55 Minimum wage in '55 was $1.00 and bought 3 gallons of gas. $15 /hour minimum wage in 2025 gets ya 5 gallons at 20-25 mpg your money goes a lot further.
ReplyDeleteYour childish ignorant example above is analogous as comparing "apples to horseshit."
DeleteJust so that we're very clear about the real facts I'm quoting below "wages and currency vs real money (silver and gold)" and not US fiat, please reference the following:
"The inflation rate in the United States between 1955 and today has been 1,103.79%, which translates into a total increase of $1,103.79. This means that 100 dollars in 1955 are equivalent to 1,203.79 dollars in 2025. In other words, the purchasing power of $100 in 1955 equals $1,203.79, or $1 then equals $12.04 in today's fiat dollars. The government's claimed average annual inflation rate between these periods has been 3.62%."
Now the real labor minimum wage in 1955 was $.75/hour. If one uses 3ea. 90% silver quarters as payment, please note that those coins at today's melt value (global spot price x .9) = melt, or $20.45 in fiat dollars. Oh shit, did wages really fall? The .15 to .20 hamburger you quoted...paid for using two 90% silver Roosevelt dimes are valued today at $5.45.
As you can see, real money does not loose it's purchasing power, the POS US fiat toilet paper currency does. It's called debasement. BTW, depending on where you lived, the price of gas 1955, was somewhere between .17 and .29 cents per gallon. Is anyone here old enough to remember gas price wars?
So, take your 2nd grade level BS analysis elsewhere.
Damn, who died and left you king? Maybe you should take it elsewhere. Nobody gonna miss you.
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DeleteDon’t worry. You’ll get to that in 3rd grade
@Anon 7/11 07:53A:
DeleteSlow clap. Kudos! Well-played.
Oh, and a burger at Mickey D's today is $2.19.
Before we compare the size and weight of a 1955 burger with the bite-sized hockey pucks McD's calls hamburgers, and palms off on customers today.
Some great ones today C.W. Everyone should do the coast hiway. Did it in
ReplyDeletemy '75 C-J5 Jeep (a Kaiser). Always get swept back to my teenage years
with your "mud and or snow" shots.
#2, Tent, kitchen, boat & the sea.. I like it!
ReplyDelete#3, that looks like a runway right out of the garage!
#5, a pretty girl in VW! That about makes this Friday collection complete ... the VW ON the beach in #12 does the job!
Some great ones in here, Thanks! I especially liked 24. Lord Almighty that is a beautiful truck. Nothing today compares to it IMO.
ReplyDeleteAnother creative and outstanding "Open Road." Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI love the darling little redhead.
I was in high school when MacDonald's burgers were $0.15.
Working on a job with a long commute just glad it's Friday and have to go nowhere but in my imagination. Thanks for these every week.
ReplyDeleteTwo 300SLs. Couldn’t be better.
ReplyDeleteWalter's Wiggles, Stairway to Angels Landing, Zion NP.
ReplyDeleteI like the one with the rock...
ReplyDelete#11:
ReplyDeleteNever play Rock-Paper-Sedan.
Unless you're Rock.