do you remember?

Question

5 cent cokes 5 cent coffee 5 cent candy or the old big hunk candy or a big chief note book

how about the gas wars at the pumps

how about milk in a glass bottle in school

Their is no way I can chose a best answer they all bring back to many good times===.good golly miss molly=== I need help

Answer 1

I'm so old I remember when air was clean and sex was dirty.

I remember penny candy - where not only was it a penny but you got 3 or 4 pieces for the penny.

Answer 2

Oh my gosh I sure do. I remember the short bottles for 5c. In-
cidentally I can't get the cents' sign to work as instructed on
the forum earlier. I also remember when they came out with
the larger coke size at 10c. I remember both the chest type
of pop coolers' and the old uprights' at other locations. And
all bottles were a nickel for many years.
A Big Hunk was my favorite candy. And later when they
came out with Abba Zabba was available with a similar taste.
But with peanut butter inside. I was always afraid they would
pull my fillings out of my teeth.
I remember using the Big Chief paper tablets for school.
But they weren't just 5c. They were 10c. How special it felt
to have a brand new one to start the school year with. I could
hardly wait to write in it for the first time LOL.
How I missed the little neighborhood grocery store, when
it closed down when larger chain store opened further away,
and everyone would go there instead. But I used the little
corner store for penny candy and an occasional pop, til in
the late 50's. Not only was it handy, they had the best penny
candy assortment ever.
I wasn't aware of the price of coffee until I started serving
it on the job at a major dept store in 1961 after graduation.

Answer 3

5 Cent cokes in 8 oz bottles from a red vending machine that made all kinds of noise, the bottles were frosted by the time they were used a few times due to grating on each other and machine parts, but the coke tasted good.
12.5 cents was the cheapest I ever paid for regular gas, 1958, gas war in my home town...
Candy bars were 5 cents, and mine was Hershey bars with almonds....well, an occasional Mars bar, or PeterPaul Mounds.
Comic Books were 10 Cents, unless you had an in with the wholesaler...my dad would get me stacks of them for 1.50...all new, occasionally a reapeat, but not often.
I didn't drink coffee until I was 38, so the coffee bit is not a concern,...but my father owned a "Hamburger joint" that had endless cups of coffee for 5 cents during the depression. (before my time)....but let's face it..those nickels and dimes were as hard to come by then as a dollar or more is today. Things really haven't changed that much when you get right down to it, and many, many things are much cheaper...all electronics! How do they make these things, make money on them for what they sell for! Airline flights! Today, with the prices, it is like flying for free compared to what it used to cost when cokes were 5 cents! And, lest we think those were the good old days, remember the roads! Nothing but 2 lane highways, always in some state of repair, with lines of cars for miles .... tires! A good set lasted for about 15K miles, 20K if pushed to the bald. Brakes...hell, they barely stopped cars, and the pads were replaced in as little as 10K miles, sometimes stretched to 20K. Oil! IF you did not change your oil religiously, your car was emitting smoke all over the place. Antifreeze was Methanol, had no rust or corrosion inhibitors, and radiator repair and replacement was a very common thing. Paint...no sooner would you paint something white than it would be a tone of yellow, for sulfur in the air changed the lead to lead sulfate, yellow in color.
It was a much quieter time, I was allowed to roam the town on my bike with no worries that I would not come home eventually, I had total freedom and lived up to expectations or else! These times are gone forever, some pluses and some minuses. Such is life. And remember that at 50, you were OLD! Meds have come farther than anything in the past 70 years...for that we are all grateful. There was a time in MY lifetime that strep throat was a death sentence. Yes, we have come a long, very long way. Peace and love, Goldwing

PS..one of the answers above has led to a question I am going to post now!

Answer 4

I remember a few. I never liked the big hunk candy. My grandfather was a sign artist when he came to the US in the 50's. My parents have a sign that he painted GAS WAR 5 cents! For years I never knew what a gas war was! I do remember those pop machines that you had to pull the bottle through a maze. Mmmmmmm they were good and cold!

Answer 5

I do remember the five cent candy bar. Once for my birthday I got two dollars. I spent a whole dollar on Reese's cups and ate most of them myself....needless to say, it was years before I could eat another one. The Big Hunk was one of my Dad's favorites. I always loved the first of the school year when I got a new Big Chief Tablet and Pink Pearl eraser.

Answer 6

I remember 5 cents for the small coke and 7 cents for the large and 2 cents deposit returns. I could purchase Mothers cigerettes for 25 cents and no one aks why a child was buying them. I could be sent to buy grandmothers snuff, too.
Winn Dixie had canned goods 10 cents each. Gorcerys for a family of two could be bought for $10-25 and the higher amount you ate very well.

Answer 7

I remember most of those. I loved getting a quarter and going to the corner mkt and getting 25 pieces of candy. When I was in grade school I walked up to the Dairy Bar each day for lunch and got a chili dog and coke for 35 cents!

Answer 8

Saturday after noon at the movies Roy Rodgers Hopalong Casisdy The Lone ranger .Dad gave us 25 cents and a warning Bring Back The Change Im not made of money.. My first job $ 41.90 A week Unloading box cars Made more than dad he was a mechanic

Answer 9

Pop that was in the machine with the TOPS EXPOSED were temptation to us kids. At night (in a trailer park in WAY UP NORTH New York, we'd get a straw and a bottle cap opener...drink ourselves sick! Finally, the owner put a pad lock on the machine.
Then there was the machine where the bottles lay horizontal. My sister and her boy friend got busted opening a bottle of Coke and mixing their rum with it.
There were 2 mom & pop grocery stores in our neighborhood and sometimes one would give 3¢ and the other 2¢ a bottle. We'd ask first before we'd bring all our bottles in.
We got delivered milk in glass bottles with cardboard tops and the cream on top. Eatng cereal out of the small box by cutting open the side.
(By the way, to make a '¢' sign, hold down the ALT button while typing 155, then release. )

Answer 10

yes,i even remember when the local store had candy behind a big shelf and you would tell the person how much candy you wanted and they got it out for you.i also remember buying those gut busters for ten cents a piece.cigs were 35 cents a pack and gas was just a quarter.i remember good ole quart bottles of budweiser for just 25 cents.now thats a real long time ago.

Answer 11

Do you remember the bricks of hard peanut butter foam stuff (can't remember what it was called) that you would get for just a nickle? They came in a brick about 2 inches thick, and 4 inches wide and about 10 inches long. And to eat them you had to break a piece of it off and let it melt in your mouth. They lasted FOREVER.

All nickle sodas came in bottles that were suspended by the neck inside a machine that had ice water circulating around the bottles...now THOSE drinks were truly COLD when you bought them! And if you returned the bottle for deposit you got two cents back that you could then spend on penny candy.

Remember when black licorice cigars were actually the size of the cheapest tobacco stogies? (AND so much better than what you can buy today!)