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Brother can you spare a dime?

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Dixieland

05-04-2005 16:16:59

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I remember when you could;
Make a phone call .10 cent
Buy a big Baby Ruth .10c
Buy a gallon of kerosene .10c
Buy a 10 oz. bottle coke .10c
Get into the Saturday matinee .10c
Buy two packs of gum .10c
Buy a superman comic book .10c
Buy a ride at the fair grounds .10c
Sunday school offering .10c
Just about any thing a young boy wanted cost .10c once upon a time.
And all you had to do was, pick cotton, pick up pecans,or pick up thrown out coke bottles.
If we could'nt make any money, we would trade funny books, eat wild plums and berries, climb trees, swim in the creek, and go bare foot.
I guess that tells my age!

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Farmer in the Dells (WI)

05-05-2005 04:43:34

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

I can't remember the last job I had that paid me "well", but I do remember going to the store with a dollar. I could get a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk. The change left bought so much candy it had to be put in a bag. With all the inflation I noticed that many opinions here are still offered for only 2 cents. I think most of the advice is worth way more than that and could be raised and stay less than a dime. Just my 3�

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wolfmantractor

05-04-2005 18:20:24

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

About 1953, gas was around 20 cents/gal and we were putting wheat in a railroad car for $3.50 a bushel.

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JWhite

05-04-2005 17:50:58

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

Hmmm, what was the pay scale like back then?

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HTR

05-04-2005 20:57:13

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to JWhite, 05-04-2005 17:50:58

John Deere dealership I was with, I worked 44 hours a week for $40. The labor rate to the customer, $3.00 per hour. I had the title of producing service manager, that ment I had to do the paper work, and do the wrench work too.

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john in la

05-04-2005 19:48:36

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to JWhite, 05-04-2005 17:50:58

10¢

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Rauville

05-04-2005 17:42:54

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

When I started attending local auctions, one auctioneer in particular would start all the misc. household goods at a quarter. One old seasoned bidder was always there, and if the auctioneer couldn't get a .25 opening bid, this old guy would holler out: "A...DIME!", and the auctioneer would say: "SOLD!". At the end of the sale, the old guy would have a truck load, and probably hadn't spent $3.00!

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Leroy

05-04-2005 17:41:01

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

10 cents for a local phone call? That is high for a pay phone call, on our local system a local call from a pay phone is as of now and with no planes to ever raise it is a nickle, 5 cents

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Kevin in OK

05-04-2005 17:08:44

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

Funny, I bet 30-40 years from now, I'll be looking back to now, in high school, and thinking how cheap this stuff was-
20 oz coke 1 buck
gallon of gas 2 bucks +/-
phone call 50 cents
movies 6 bucks
get into the fair 12 bucks
ride ticket at the fair 50 cents
candy bar 75 cents

I'm sure there are others, but too many to list.

Kevin

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Bill WI

05-05-2005 07:20:58

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Kevin in OK, 05-04-2005 17:08:44

Don't dispair Kevin, a lot of this is the good ol days, but there were those "days" too. i'm going on 65 and wouldn't trade to go back when I was a kid. Heck I couldn't play on the puter I put togeher and you called the next town and it was long distance. You didn't to have to listen to the news on radio "no tv yet", just call the ol giddy that was eavsdropping on partyline, or better yet pick up and listen if something just happened. Privacy didn't exist.

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yep

05-04-2005 16:51:08

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

Remember most of that and also that an hours wage on the farm was about a dime.Funny how remembering that stuff comes around more often lately.

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Redmud

05-04-2005 16:49:32

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

Dixieland, I would bet you were born in the late thirties or early forty's. Naw, I take it back, mid forty's, cause some of that stuff was 5 cents when I was a kid. and I got in the picture show for 9 cents.

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thurlow

05-04-2005 17:12:58

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Redmud, 05-04-2005 16:49:32

He's just a whippersnapper; Cokes were 5 cents; we thought the world might be ending when "they" stuck that one cent box on the outside of the machine and they then cost 6 cents.....

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05-05-2005 07:21:29

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to thurlow, 05-04-2005 17:12:58

I recall that very well. About 1953.

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Mark - IN.

05-04-2005 16:37:54

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

Well, when I was stationed in Germany and it was 4 Deutchmarks to one US dollar, you wouldn't believe what 40 Marks ($10) got you down at P-Strasse in Mannheim after spending a month in a snowy tent, and a shower. Sure my Sargent said it was off limits, right after we ran into each other, window shopping. And a liter mug of dopplebach was one Mark. Four of them things could turn you into King Kong Bundy, until you got used to them. To think that I tried my best not to be sent there. Man am I glad they didn't listen to me. LOL.

Wasn't exactly a dime, but wasn't bad either.

Mark

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old

05-04-2005 16:33:29

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to Dixieland, 05-04-2005 16:16:59

You forgot one, a gallion of gas

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Johnbob

05-04-2005 17:16:45

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Re: Brother can you spare a dime? in reply to old, 05-04-2005 16:33:29

I remember when gas was .21 cents.Also farmed and paid .17 cents for diesel.Its been a while,I also remember world war two very well.I must be an old -art.

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