Feb 17, 2011

Do you remember how much things like gasoline, stamps, and food costs? During what years were these prices valid?

Candy bars cast 10 to 15 cents. Gum and lifesavers were 5 cents each. A movie coast fifty cents with candy succors for 5 cents but there was a catch too. If you got the succor with a star inside the label you got get a free one. Gasoline cost around 35 cents a gallon. I remember in Texas in 1971 when we would drive a mission car and gas up every other week for 19 cents a gallon and it was over a dollar a gallon by the time came home in 1974. There was a reason that a lot of candy was called penny candy and that was because it only cost a penny. It was fun to get a small allowance because it didn't take much to get candy and treats. The cost of a First Class US postage stamp in 1960 was 4 cents. It was raised to 5 cents in 1963. It went up to 6 cents in 1968.