This past birthday I received one of those books that tells you all that was going on the year you were born. Today I finally decided to really take a look and yikes!! Look at the prices back then.
Hard to imagine a family living on $2800.00 a year even if gas was only 15 cents. I wonder if that income was with or without that Harvard Degree? And that new house for $6650? Was that bought with 20% down, 5% interest and seller contribution? Gee did it have a bathroom? Oh it must have cause I remember having one and my parents only paid $4500 for the house I grew up in. LOL
Of course life was way simpler back then. TV was the lastest and greatest in technology, we ate Moms cooking around a dinner table every night (convenience food had not even been invented) and that big heavy car with the roll up windows lasted forever because our highway system had not been created.
Looking back I think I still prefer todays craziness. There is just something magical about having the world as your backyard. But then again those dinners were priceless.
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