Are you this old?

[ljjhouser]

Fancy bread. I remember my mom complaining about inflation, when it got to be impossible to find a 10 cent loaf of bread.

I remember Oven brand bread at .10 cents

 

[ljjhouser]

I remember mill tokens (0.1 cent) when I was a kid, but haven't even heard of them for decades. Inflation eliminated the need, since our dollar is now worth 10 cents, our dime is worth a penny, and the penny is worth a mill.

And I forgot about mills. We used to play with them when I was a kid. Red and Green ones.

 

[k0ua]

And I forgot about mills. We used to play with them when I was a kid. Red and Green ones.

Same here. I had a few as a kid, both the red and green ones. I haven't seen one of those in many decades.

 

[Snobdds]

Man, you guys are old.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I remember having a coal furnace in the basement. The milk truck picking up 10 gallon full cans and returning empties. The party line phone. Old 3 channels on TV which went off the air at night.

The sign off of half the TV stations in America, typically followed by the National Anthem.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I remember bread 10 loafs for a Dollar. You could get a whole cart of food for $10.

 

[Bird]

Bird, didn’t know you went to ACU, my best friend went there a couple years. It’s actually a pretty liberal Christian university now.

Funny thing about that. I've never seen that college. You know police officers (in Dallas, at least) used to work rotating shifts. So I used to work one month at a time on all 3 shifts. That could make it difficult to find courses that I could work into my schedule. And then our federal government thought officers should be better educated, so a program was started (LEAP - Law Enforcement Assistance Program) in which I paid all my college exenses, BUT when I received my final grade card after a class, I could send it in and was reimbursed for the tuition (but not any other expenses), and Uncle Sam checked on officers once a year after that. If you didn't stay an officer for 3 years, you had to pay back that tuition money.

So Abilene Christian, like some other colleges, opened a small campus in the first suburb east of Dallas, and that's where I went to the classes. Their professors would have a morning class, then repeat the same class in the evening, so we could make either class.

Over the years I took classes that interested me at the time at a lot of different colleges; North Texas State (Denton,TX), SMU (Dallas, TX), El Centro College (junior college in Dallas), Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), Sam Houston State College (Huntsville, TX). So, eventually there came a time that I thought perhaps I should consider a degree. So, I found that I needed a couple of more English classes, some more math, another science class, and at Abilene Christian, Bible classes. So I got a Bachelor of Science degree, *** laud, (major in Criminal Justice; minor in Sociology) when I was 35 years old and had more than 150 semester hours.

I was first told that I'd have to go to Abilene for the graduation but then they decided they'd have enough students graduating that year in the Dallas area that we'd have the cap and grown ceremony here. So my parents got to see me graduate. And now I still get the alumni magazine, even though I've never actually seen the campus.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Speaking of Oklahoma boot leggers; my Dad ran a sand dredge for many years; and although I'm not familiar with the details of the bidding process, I know that when he would call on a potential customer, he always took a 5th of good whiskey as his calling card. Oklahoma was dry until 1959, but whiskey was available if you wanted it bad enough. In fact, I had friends who made occasional trips to Kansas to keep their liquor cabinet stocked. Otherwise, all you could buy was 3.2 beer and Hadacol.

 

[Oaktree]

I remember mill tokens (0.1 cent) when I was a kid, but haven't even heard of them for decades. Inflation eliminated the need, since our dollar is now worth 10 cents, our dime is worth a penny, and the penny is worth a mill.

Never heard of them, period. What were they?

 

[Bird]

Speaking of Oklahoma boot leggers; my Dad ran a sand dredge for many years; and although I'm not familiar with the details of the bidding process, I know that when he would call on a potential customer, he always took a 5th of good whiskey as his calling card. Oklahoma was dry until 1959, but whiskey was available if you wanted it bad enough. In fact, I had friends who made occasional trips to Kansas to keep their liquor cabinet stocked. Otherwise, all you could buy was 3.2 beer and Hadacol.

I don't recall hearing that tune before, but in 1951-52 we had moved to Healdton, OK where my Dad worked for Johnston Testers and bought a nice 10 acre place. And one night I went to see the only traveling medicine show that I ever saw. They had their trailer set up in a vacant lot, opened and let down one side to make a stage, and put on a comedy act. No charge, of course, but then they were trying to sell "Hadacol", bottles of medicine that was good for whatever ailed you. I still remember him saying, "Well, we had a call it something." And after the show left town, I remember some bottles of that Hadacol stuff in the window of the local drugstore.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Never heard of them, period. What were they?

 

[k0ua]

Never heard of them, period. What were they?

In Missouri, ours were either a red or a green plastic (some sort of hard plastic, which was often warped) coin, that was embossed during manufacture, and 10 of them were worth a penny. They were pretty much a thing of the past when I was a kid in the 60's, but I had some of them. for a while.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Oklahoma

 

[k0ua]

In Missouri, ours were either a red or a green plastic (some sort of hard plastic, which was often warped) coin, that was embossed during manufacture, and 10 of them were worth a penny. They were pretty much a thing of the past when I was a kid in the 60's, but I had some of them. for a while.

A little research yielded that the green ones wore 5 mills and the red ones were the 1 mill plastic coins here in Missouri

I found a place selling them for 75 cents each. Sure would have been a good investment to buy a few tons of them "back in the day".

 

[turnkey4099]

Maybe, if you waited long enough. ISTR the 0:60 time on my brother's was measured in minutes.

I remember stores staying open late one night, but for whatever reason around here it was Thursdays, but I think that's when people got paid.

Liquor laws are a whole topic into themselves, seemed every state had some oddball law regarding it, and not much consistency from one state to another.
Most of the so called blue laws had ceased being enforced by the late 50s/early 60s, at least where I grew up.

I got called on a Washington State law. At a bar and saw a friend at a table. Grabbed my drink and went over to talk to him. NO - You can't do that, a wait person has to carry the drink over for you. It was canceled a few years later. I did get a weak excuse 'to keep guys from unwanted attention to females'.

 

[JasperFrank]

'62 or up to '69, remember the local gas station as also the local ice store. They sold big blocks for the locals to use in old style ice boxes. We had a refrigerator, but it could not make ice. When my dad had a gathering, I would get the ice. And then had to chop it down to fit the coolers the beer went into.

 

[turnkey4099]

When I was a teen back in the 60s, most states' drinking age was 21, but it was 18 in N.Y. It was a bit of a drive, but a lot of kids would go over there Saturday nights, there were a couple dive bars just over the state line and probably 2/3 of the clientele were from N.H. or Vt.
Most of the clubs only looked at the year on your license when they'd card you at the door. My birthday's in December, so I had little trouble getting in when I was 20. Funny thing, about 2 weeks before my birthday the bouncer at a place I'd often go looked at the actual date and noticed I wasn't quite 21 yet. Since I was enough of a regular that he recognized me, he just said "be careful" and let me in. Imagine that happening today!

Figures, N.H. dropped it's drinking age to 18 a couple months after I turned 21. Not that I was ever a big drinker/partier, but that's kinda what you did then.

I went out partying on a leave from the AF and went to a bar. Got thrown out on my birthday eve just about 2 hours before I turned 21. I guess the 2 years I had been gone they had forgotten me. Used to go there regularly until I joined up.

 

[Molalla1]

I went out partying on a leave from the AF and went to a bar. Got thrown out on my birthday eve just about 2 hours before I turned 21. I guess the 2 years I had been gone they had forgotten me. Used to go there regularly until I joined up.

The short hair made you look younger?

 

[Oaktree]

In Missouri, ours were either a red or a green plastic (some sort of hard plastic, which was often warped) coin, that was embossed during manufacture, and 10 of them were worth a penny. They were pretty much a thing of the past when I was a kid in the 60's, but I had some of them. for a while.

What were they used for? Did your state mint its own coins or were they used for something else?
Prior to EZ Pass our state used to sell tokens for use at toll booths (at a discount), but that's the only state "coin" I've ever seen.

 

[k0ua]

What were they used for? Did your state mint its own coins or were they used for something else?
Prior to EZ Pass our state used to sell tokens for use at toll booths (at a discount), but that's the only state "coin" I've ever seen.

Some of the taxes in the state were in tenths of a cent, and these could be used to pay them. Kind of like the idiotic old pricing of gasoline prices of 9/10 of a cent per gallon tacked on to the end of the full purchase price. Like 2.99 and 9/10 cents per gallon. It is stupid, it is archaic, but there you go. Why do we even have pennies in our society? The actual penny costs 2 or more cents to manufacture if it was made of copper, which they are no longer made from, and haven't been for many decades now, but yet we still have them.

Why not all prices that end in 5? As in $2.95. Would that really make a difference in the pricing of anything? Can you buy anything for less than a nickel now? No of course not. Yet we still have the penny for some reason.

I could go on and on about stupid policy's but what purpose would it serve?. None. Just like a Mill.