? For the young people- What if someone offered you $1. for gas for a ride???

[Pete Judd]

Yep, things have gone up. I recall 23.9 for gas, and movies for .25. Last night went to the "multi-plex" to see Les Mes, 7 bucks ea for a senior tickets, 6 gallons of gas round trip to get to the "muti-plex". And a modest dinner, figured it cost about 65 bucks for a simple night out. Still, she's worth it.

 

[mjarrels]

Use to ride my bike to the local high school stadium sat the day after a big friday night home game and crawl around under the bleachers looking for lost/dropped money. Always had a pocket full of cash. Bottle of pop and candy bars were about a nickle each back then.

mark

 

[300UGUY]

My F.I.L. said when he was a kid of 10 or 12 he would work all day at a grocery store for $.35 (that's 35 cents). Then on Saturday he would take 4 friends (5 people total) to the movies and get all 5 into the theater, all of them popcorn, they got to watch a Flash Gordon short, a couple news reels, and a double feature movie (two movies), for that 35 cents!

5 of us went to a movie a couple nights ago. $40.00. No popcorn. Just admission.... and the film broke with 15 minutes left to go just as James Bond was looking at the propane cylinders!!! :laughing:

Last time we went out to a show, tickets were $12.50 @. You got off cheap.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

When I first started dating, we lived in a rural area; some of the guys dated girls in the surrounding towns, so it wasn't unusual to drive a couple hundred miles on Saturday night. Even at 25cents a gallon, that could get expensive so we usually double dated. Pitch in a buck for gas, 50 cents or so to get into the drive in and a buck or so for a hamburger and a coke, and you have blown maybe 3 bucks for a saturday night date! But that was half a days wages then; top money for a high school kid was 75 cents an hour. Hamburgers were about 25-35 cents, and fountain cokes maybe a dime; popcorn about the same. Not all the guys had cars, so pitching in for gas was a way of life then.

 

[MossRoad]

Moss...are you kidding..? I ask because my Mrs. and I have not been to a movie theater in years...we have a big screen and Dish..Netflix..etc...LOL..make our own popcorn and the price is right...Anyway..my question is... I thought theater movies were all digital now...are they still using film ? Did you ever get to see the end of the movie ? Did you get a partial refund ? Are you mad ?:confused3:

Yep. It was still film. We asked one of the kids working there. It is a 16 theatre multi-plex. He said all of their larger theatres were already digital and the last couple small theatres like the one we were in (only seats about 180 people) will be converted to digital on January 7th.

As for the movie, a nice lady with purple hair and lots of piercings appeared in the projector booth and I watched her splice the film, put it back in and in about 15 minutes she started the movie up and J.B. was still looking at the propane tanks. I estimate we only missed about 1-2 seconds of the film.

While we were waiting, the kid they sent in to pacify the crowd gave everyone a free re-admittance pass good until June for any movie at any time just for the inconvenience! That was nice. Also, anyone that had purchased popcorn or drinks could go to the consession stand and get a free refill while we waited. And they waited for everyone to come back to re-start the movie.

So, while I balked at the forty bucks, it really turned into a free movie in the future. Good deal.

As for what happened after JB eyed up the propane tanks... spoiler alert.....

BOOM!!!!

:laughing:

 

[k0ua]

Yep. It was still film. We asked one of the kids working there. It is a 16 theatre multi-plex. He said all of their larger theatres were already digital and the last couple small theatres like the one we were in (only seats about 180 people) will be converted to digital on January 7th.

As for the movie, a nice lady with purple hair and lots of piercings appeared in the projector booth and I watched her splice the film, put it back in and in about 15 minutes she started the movie up and J.B. was still looking at the propane tanks. I estimate we only missed about 1-2 seconds of the film.

While we were waiting, the kid they sent in to pacify the crowd gave everyone a free re-admittance pass good until June for any movie at any time just for the inconvenience! That was nice. Also, anyone that had purchased popcorn or drinks could go to the consession stand and get a free refill while we waited. And they waited for everyone to come back to re-start the movie.

So, while I balked at the forty bucks, it really turned into a free movie in the future. Good deal.

As for what happened after JB eyed up the propane tanks... spoiler alert.....

BOOM!!!!

:laughing:

Now that was funny:laughing:

 

[Lou66]

Gas was 13 cents for Regular, Ethel was 17 cents, Mr. Ward service station, check your oil, air, water and clean your windshield,, Movie Sat afternoon. 10 cents, coke 3 reg, 5 for large,, same with the pop corn,, McAlester, Oklahoma 1956,, Chief or the "V" the Okla theater was 25 cents.. Me and my gang,, lol.. didn't go there.. Lou

 

[MossRoad]

I'll be 52 soon. Cheapest I ever remember gas was about 29 cent. Cheapest I ever bought it for was around high 40s, maybe 50.

Told this story before, but hey, I'll tell it again....

Sophomore year in H.S. 4 of us went on senior skip day to the beach (senior girls were rumore to be there). Gas at my favorite Purple Martin station was 55 cents. My friends wanted to go to a station that was 5 cents cheaper. We were going to get 10 gallons. We actually got into a fight about 50 cents split 4 ways, or, 12.5 cents per person. Yikes!

 

[creekbend]

The first job that I earned money from was working on a neighbor's horse farm. The pay was $.50 cents an hour and I worked 10 hours a day on the weekends when Dad didn't need me. That was in 1963. My next paying job was as a Caddy at a golf course. I would ride my bicycle to the Pro Shop. The movies were $.50 and there was a balcony. If you had a date, the balcony was the place to me. Watching the movie was the farthest thing from one's mind.

 

[Bird]

Use to ride my bike to the local high school stadium sat the day after a big friday night home game and crawl around under the bleachers looking for lost/dropped money. Always had a pocket full of cash. Bottle of pop and candy bars were about a nickle each back then.

mark

Yep, Mark, I've sure done that. And of course picked up pop bottles along the road to sell for 2 cents each.