$0.29 per gallon!
cigarettes were $0.35 per pack
2007-09-27 10:46:14 · 52 answers · asked by slk29406 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Goldwing
I buy Seneca cigs here, they are $1.69 a pack. It makes up for the $6.22 a gal. of milk. LOL
2007-09-27 13:42:15 · update #1
When I started driving gas was 10 cents a gallon and cigs were 25 cents a pack, and beer was 10 cents a glass.
2007-09-27 10:52:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Around $0.24 9/10, or 25 cents a gallon and cigarettes were a dime a pack for a few years, then 15 cents, then 20 cents, etc. Cigars were a nickel and pipe tobacco was 15 cents a can, pop was 5 cents, so were candy bars, a cup of coffee, a piece of pie, and big, juicy hamburgers (not the dried up little poker chip size at fast food places now) were 10 to 15 cents. Oh, for the "good ole' days!" Happy trails.
2007-09-27 10:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by hillbilly 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gas was .25, and cigs $2.30 a carton for Winstons at the groc store or .25 a pack out of a vending machine. I worked as a waitress in 1969 for .79 cents an hour. Was a night auditor at the Holiday Inn in 1967 for $1.00 an hour. Managed a car rental franchise for $300.00 a month in 1970. Built trailer house windows for $1.50 an hour, big wages and I could wear grubbies to work. Bar tendend in a biker bar that was 'rough' paid $1.50 an hour, had many full and part time jobs, survival was the game. Remember laughing a few years ago on my way to work, got a pack of cigs a doughnut and cup of coffee--almost 7 bucks. Coffee used to be 5 cents a cup and it was bottomless and you could sit and smoke and drink it.
2007-09-27 11:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by lilabner 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi 406 ,,, just wanted to say it was 24cents a gal. [gas]... 25 for cig.. I am a twin my brother would take our left over lunch money to by cig during school ,, which a burger fries and a coke 25c the guy would give all the school kids specials.. lol we had more fun cause my twin and I HAD MORE MONEY THAT THE OTHERS INCLUDED MY BROHTER LOL .. IT WAS FUN... GEE I HAD ALREADY FORGOTTEN HOW MUCH FUN IT WAS FOR US TO HAVE A FEW MORE PENNIES .. WE COULD GO AND BY CANDY .. LET ME SEE MY MAMA WOULD GIVE US FIFTY CENTS EVERY DAY FOR LUNCH SO WE HAD A DOLLAR GIRL!!! WE TAUGHT WE WERE RICH... of course not all the years were good for us.. we had to walk home for lunch and still then mama would fix the best meal and she would make us feel rich that being poor was not a word for us lol she made us lol and tell us that even if there is things to buy we were not getting all the time cause it was hard times... SORRY I COULD JUST KEEP ON AND ON.. I NOT EVEN LOOKING FOR TEN POINTS.. LOL ITS THE MEMORIES THAT I HAVE .. THAT I KNOW I ALREADY HAVE THE TEN POINTS IN MY HEART ... YOLI .. ALWAYS WITH THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST
2007-09-27 16:44:20 · answer #4 · answered by yoli b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah you kid. 18 cents for gas and 22 cents for cig. Discount gas station. Cig. were 25 cents in a machine. I do remember getting change back in a cig. machine. 2 cents I think.
I remember 5 cent candy bars, the big ones were a dine. The movie theater was a quarter and popcorn a dime. I made 85 cents an hour as a waitress. A good days tips were seven or eight dollars.
2007-09-27 11:00:52 · answer #5 · answered by curious connie 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
5 gallons for a dollar if you had the ration stamps. Cigarettes were $.10. The war ended and pop came home about as mad as a man can get. Cigarettes Had gone up by $.02 He came through the door waving a pack and letting, "Some day these @&%*$^*% things are going to cost me a penny apiece. That was before political correctness when one could say @&%*$^*% and no one got upset.
2007-09-27 13:17:16 · answer #6 · answered by Ray T 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Alabama in the early 60s
it was 18 cents a gallon
&
a pack of Camels cost $.24 a pack,
That same year in Mississippi,
gas was 23 cents a gallon
and
Camels cost $. 26 a pack
Also in that same year
in the Great State of Louisiana,
gas was 20 cents a gallon,
&
Camels were $ .25 a pack.
Today in Houston, Texas
on the corner of
Antoine & Long Point ,
I paid $ 2.55 for a gallon of gas
and
I understand that Camels
cost over $ 6.00 a pack.
WOW!
2007-09-27 12:44:46 · answer #7 · answered by ♫ Bubastes, Cat Goddess♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
18 cents per gallon, and occasionally with a gas war, it got down to 12 cents a gallon. Cigarettes were 25 cents a pack when I started smoking (age 19..what a fool I was...and my Mom warned me, :some day you will want to stop and you won't be able to...of course I knew so much more than she did....youth! What a waste! ). Now, cigarettes are upwards to 6.45 per pack, and I still puff away...talk about a total fool! I need help, professional help...ooops...tried that, didn't work. never mind. Peace, Phil
2007-09-27 12:25:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
About 30¢ to 35¢.
2007-09-27 12:22:34 · answer #9 · answered by Rickard 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 1962 it was about 31c a gallon. BUT...I read that changes in disposable income suggest that prices would have to be $4.48 a gallon to inflict the same degree of economic pain today as then. In 1962 I made 50c an hour selling milk and ice cream from a family run dairy store and drove a 1953 Chevy.
2007-09-27 11:45:35 · answer #10 · answered by AmericanPatriot 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋