Over 40

Started by HOGGS

HOGGS

Back in the good old days 24 cold beer from the bar was $6.15 liqour store was even cheaper.

cheezie

I can remember my dad telling me that he used to be able to buy a pack of cigarettes, a coke, and a chocolate bar with a dollar. I can only remember being able to buy a pop and and a bag of chips with a dollar.

Sarge

I remember 10 cent chocolate bars, 12 cent pop from the vending machines - in GLASS bottles - and real cork in the bottle top! and A&W Root Beer in the half-gallon jugs.

When was the last time you saw pop in a glass bottle?

Idjit

How about this ad, for the Saskatoon Brewing Company, that read "Good for father, mother, sister, brother! 12 quarts delivered ice cold to your door $1.25." It was a full page ad on the back of the Saskatoon Star, (still have it around somewhere) and it had a picture of a horse drawn wagon loaded with crates of beer packed in ice. Now, those were the good ol' days!

wes_bos

I have a 35 cent Archie magazine Yah i got lots of thoes

whens the last time you saw pop in glass bottles
In pei its a regular thing, also jones soda, and some clones of that. also you can get wobbly pop at the beer store. Hey bCers hows the boozing till 4 am comming? lol ontario is way to irrisponisble to have it till 4

BDKINGSTON

I remember:
5 cent bars -small
10 cent bars - large
7 cent pop
3 jaw breakers for 1 cent
10 cent comics
25 cents for a movie
5 cents to ride the bus
1 cent gum
35 cent cigarettes
35 cents for a gallon of gas (hope I don't get that gas thing going again)
25 cents a week for allowance
30 dollars for my first car-a 1947 Studebaker Commander with a flat head six and suicide doors.
– Coke came out with coke in bottles last Chrismas

Thats all for now.

Pooga

4 bucks and your happy
you're happy

Yep, I remember a lot of that.

When I first started working in a bar, beer was 20 cents for a glass of draft and 42 cents for a bottle. Minimum wage was $1.25 an hour.

And if you took off ALL the different government mark-ups and taxes, beer would be about $5 per dozen RIGHT NOW!

Remember when the new 20s came out? (mid 70's)? They were so colourful that a couple of Canadians got arrested in LA for passing phony money. Then the new 1s came out. And in a dark place (the bar I worked in), I got burnt. I hadn't seen a new 1, and I thought it was a 20. Lucky guy got $19.80 in change to buy one glass of draft! Guy took the money and left right away! That hurt!

wes_bos

If the grammer police are going to be on my tail I will try and talk the right way. I am just used to talking on my Microsoft .Net Messenger Service©. Sorry for any inconvience I have brought upon you.

Pooga

Actually dr is the Grammar Nazi.

I'm just filling in for him!.

A year ago MmmBeer wrote that way as well! He's doing muuuuch better now.

Suzuki

"Remember when the new 20s came out? (mid 70's)? They were so colourful that a couple of Canadians got arrested in LA for passing phony money."

I was in Indiana in August 1973 with a couple of new $50.00's trying to exchange them for American, I spent 2.5 hours waiting for the bank manager because the tellers wouldn't accept the bills. The manager phoned his regional office and couldn't get a yes or no from his boss so he eventually phoned the US Mint and got a discription of the bills from them. I finally got out of there after 4 hours, as I walked out the door I could hear the tellers trying to get the bills for their own collections.
BTW the exchange rate at the time was $1.32 American.

MmmBeer

I used to write that way cause I didn't correct my errors, or didn't care about Punctuation.
Me do'nt, knowe how I' fail the eglish class¿

ALso BD Coke came out with those collectable glass bottles 2 X-mases ago. Maybe they did last year, but I didn't see them, I just remember form 2 years back.

MmmBeer
Ps I got 80 in english

kaiser

60 cent bars -small
$1 bars - large
65 cent pop (can)
1 jaw breaker for 25 cents
$1 comics
$7 for a movie
5 cent gum
$9 cigarettes
75.9 cents for a litre of gas
$5 a week for allowance
Few hundred dollars for a car.

MmmBeer

A stamp for CDN-money…. 15 dollars

Internet conection to log on to cdn-money 40 dollars a month

seeing where you money travels… Priceless

ANGLOFROG

Wow, fast response from wes_bos, what he lacks in spelling he makes up in punctuality. I just commented on his bad netiquette at about 9:15am EST.

GOD! Someone get me a calendar!

ANGLOFROG

Go to any island in the Caribbean and they have Fanta pop in thick glass bottles. Lots of sand=lots of glass, plastics are hardly seen or used over there.

HOGGS

P.A. Beverages in Prince Albert was bottling glass bottles until about 1 or2 years ago I used to sell them in my store.They were the only ones in western Canada. I still have empties I didn't send back. The collectors they had out were a small bottle and had the names of all there distibution centers on.

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