Tell me you cute stories when you thought you hit it big when you got a quarter and ran to store..come on lets have some fun !!
2006-12-04 15:47:43 · 9 answers · asked by sunshine 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
A bottle of Coke from those coolers with the water in the bottom. You lifted up the lid, put your money in the slot, and slid the bottle through those wire tracks. Those jawbreakers that changed colour as you sucked them. Crackerjack when they had tin toys. Grab Bags for a nickel. Spending spare time in the summer collecting pop bottles to cash in for fall fair money. Ju jubes 3 for a penny. Getting $5 on my first day of high school for emergencies and it turned to dust 'cause I was scared to spend it.
2006-12-04 16:04:58 · answer #1 · answered by Crash 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would get my allowance which was 50cents a week and buy a lb of Malted Milk balls. I would make them last about an hour..lol. Ok, maybe a little longer. I remember when hamburgers were 15 cents, I still remember a jingle for the hamburger place in town. "Jacks hamburgers for 15 cents are so good, good, good, you'll go back, back, back to Jack, Jack, Jacks for more, more, more. :) I'm late 40's so it's not just 50+ year old that remember.
2006-12-04 15:55:59 · answer #2 · answered by Jan G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm early forties, but a quarter bought a lot when I was a kid. A bottle of pop, a comic, a candy bar. And we still had penny candy, though it was almost gone by my time. Bazooka was still a penny.... Squirrel nut zippers and some of the better small stuff was a few cents each.
2006-12-04 15:51:37 · answer #3 · answered by John K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could buy a gobstopper or four black jack toffee's for
an old penny a bar of chocolate (6 squares) was sixpence.
a small ice cream cone was threepence a bag of crisps also 3d
A mars bar was 6d spangles were 3d sherbert dip with a piece of liquorice in it was three half pennies annisead balls was
6d a quarter lb. there was other treats, job to pull them out of the air. oh a bottle of lemonade was 8d, with tuppence back on the
bottle. Hope this helps. D
2006-12-04 22:15:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not 50 years old, but 25 cents was worth more back then. $100 could be almost nothing in twenty years... unless you have a really valuable coin or something.
2006-12-08 08:18:04 · answer #5 · answered by iamthesuperior 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
25 pieces of penny candy. 5 candy bars. 5 cokes. 1 sandwich like a hamburger. a malt. Other things: like fireworks.
2006-12-04 15:52:46 · answer #6 · answered by Ariel 128 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
25 caramels and today I have the filled-in cavities to show for it!!
I wish they had sold sugar free gum back then, too. Ya think?
2006-12-04 16:16:25 · answer #7 · answered by bettyboop 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YOU COULD BUY THE SWEET SHELF
2006-12-07 08:22:59 · answer #8 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i suffer from crs
2006-12-04 15:50:40 · answer #9 · answered by jess g 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋