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In 1967 when I got my first job, working in a small store during high school, I started out at minimum wage, 85 cents an hour.
I got my first paycheck and went across the street to the record store and bought the latest Beatles album. Cost $1.25
Today, to buy a CD, it cost $16 if it is not on sale
I could buy a sandwhich, with all the fixings for 35 cents a few stores over.
To take my GF out to a movie with popcorn and a coke cost about $2
A candy bar was a nickel.
A gallon of gas was 18 cents. If a gas war broke out, it went down to 12 to 14 cents.
I could buy 20 very small hamburgers that will fill up 2 of us till we burst for a buck.
My top of the line, 10 speed bike, cost less then $35
One could buy a stipped down Ford Maverick for less then $2,000 -- wait, that was in 1969.
I could fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles for less then $20. My friend could walk with me to the gate. No security checks. Parents were allowed to board the plane to see bid their kids farewell on the way to college.
Basic phone service was $1.25
I remember my father bitching about the power bill because it was $35 during the winter.
There was only 5 television stations.
FM radio as we know it was just coming into vogue. Most of it was top 40 on the AM side.
In 1957, my parents bought a very nice 4 bedroom house in a sleepy little bedroom community, 35 miles south of San Francisco, Palo Alto, next to Stanford University for $25,000. That was a very high price then, but Palo Alto was considered one of the best places to live in the nation. That same home is worth 1.5 million today.
A 45 rpm record, two songs, cost about 19 cents.
Vietnam was going into high gear.
RFK was assassinated, along with MLK
My history teacher called me a communist because I beat the pants off a guy in a debate about the Vietnam war, then gave me a D for the debate and a D- for the semester. Yes, I was against the war, even back then.
I remember running into a guy that had graduated a year before and was driving a tow truck. He was making $3 an hour. He had gotten married, a kid on the way, had an apartment and said, "yea, I'm getting buy. He said it was a little tough raising a family on $3 an hour." I thought he was frigging rich. Thats $120 a week. Plus he was getting laid.
We were slowly losing our innocence, which started Nov 22, 1963
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Life is so simple, but we insist on making it complicated
Confucius
551 - 479 BC
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Peace
Jim
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In 1967 when I got my first job, working in a small store during high school, I started out at minimum wage, 85 cents an hour.
I got my first paycheck and went across the street to the record store and bought the latest Beatles album. Cost $1.25
Today, to buy a CD, it cost $16 if it is not on sale
I could buy a sandwhich, with all the fixings for 35 cents a few stores over.
To take my GF out to a movie with popcorn and a coke cost about $2
A candy bar was a nickel.
A gallon of gas was 18 cents. If a gas war broke out, it went down to 12 to 14 cents.
I could buy 20 very small hamburgers that will fill up 2 of us till we burst for a buck.
My top of the line, 10 speed bike, cost less then $35
One could buy a stipped down Ford Maverick for less then $2,000 -- wait, that was in 1969.
I could fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles for less then $20. My friend could walk with me to the gate. No security checks. Parents were allowed to board the plane to see bid their kids farewell on the way to college.
Basic phone service was $1.25
I remember my father bitching about the power bill because it was $35 during the winter.
There was only 5 television stations.
FM radio as we know it was just coming into vogue. Most of it was top 40 on the AM side.
In 1957, my parents bought a very nice 4 bedroom house in a sleepy little bedroom community, 35 miles south of San Francisco, Palo Alto, next to Stanford University for $25,000. That was a very high price then, but Palo Alto was considered one of the best places to live in the nation. That same home is worth 1.5 million today.
A 45 rpm record, two songs, cost about 19 cents.
Vietnam was going into high gear.
RFK was assassinated, along with MLK
My history teacher called me a communist because I beat the pants off a guy in a debate about the Vietnam war, then gave me a D for the debate and a D- for the semester. Yes, I was against the war, even back then.
I remember running into a guy that had graduated a year before and was driving a tow truck. He was making $3 an hour. He had gotten married, a kid on the way, had an apartment and said, "yea, I'm getting buy. He said it was a little tough raising a family on $3 an hour." I thought he was frigging rich. Thats $120 a week. Plus he was getting laid.
We were slowly losing our innocence, which started Nov 22, 1963
===============
Life is so simple, but we insist on making it complicated
Confucius
551 - 479 BC
===============
Peace
Jim
.
how do i ride a bike with 3 kids?
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what kind of contraption can i put together so that I can ride a bicycle and have all the kids with me either on a trailer or something? My kids are 5, 3 and 1.
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The easiest way would be with your wife's help. Hook up one bike with a trailer that can handle the two little ones, and then hook the other bike up with a 'trail-a-bike'.
You can get trailers big enough for two toddlers at pretty much any cycing web retailer.
I had a 'gator' tow bar for my daughter. it uses a clamp that you bolt to the head tube of the childs bike, then the bar bolts to your seatpost. The beauty of this contraption is that you can tow your child to a park, disconnect the bike and let them ride around, then hook it up and tow them home. It's great when you live in an area where there is too much traffic to let a young child ride alone.
The easiest way would be with your wife's help. Hook up one bike with a trailer that can handle the two little ones, and then hook the other bike up with a 'trail-a-bike'.
You can get trailers big enough for two toddlers at pretty much any cycing web retailer.
I had a 'gator' tow bar for my daughter. it uses a clamp that you bolt to the head tube of the childs bike, then the bar bolts to your seatpost. The beauty of this contraption is that you can tow your child to a park, disconnect the bike and let them ride around, then hook it up and tow them home. It's great when you live in an area where there is too much traffic to let a young child ride alone.
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