Are you OLD.
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SammyChevelleTypeS3
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In high school we used to buy these packs of filtered smokes named Winchesters - cost was just .49¢ then.
Gas also happened to be .49¢ a gallon too I recall because I pumped it at my service station part time job.
We actually had a very bizarre thing in Junior year happen. The school (public) made a rule that we were allowed
to smoke at school. It was so crazy I cant even recall how it was set up. Seems like you should have had to have
a letter or some type of permission from parents!? Like I said bizarre. Then just as wild as it was to be allowed...
The very next year it was cancelled and not allowed again as far as I know.
Gas also happened to be .49¢ a gallon too I recall because I pumped it at my service station part time job.
We actually had a very bizarre thing in Junior year happen. The school (public) made a rule that we were allowed
to smoke at school. It was so crazy I cant even recall how it was set up. Seems like you should have had to have
a letter or some type of permission from parents!? Like I said bizarre. Then just as wild as it was to be allowed...
The very next year it was cancelled and not allowed again as far as I know.
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where?
tabacco land? (I C ur 'SE usa').
What years?
tabacco land? (I C ur 'SE usa').
What years?
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Between NOLA & Baton Rouge La.
Funny to me now , but yeah, you actually could have called that area a true tobacco / sugar land before USA lost those industries too to foreign countries like so many other ones since. Most of that once fertile / productive land all lays undeveloped for last 30 to 40 yrs with sugar mills and tobacco farms sitting there , crumbling in ruins and grown over , slowly reclaimed by the earth.
Those .49¢ packs of Wichester smokes were around 1973 / 1974. I remember taking note due to pumping .49¢ a gallon gas same years and buying those smokes at the store across the highway the station was on. Yes indeed it was quite a while back. I quit smoking in 1980 and for some crazy reason took it up again from 2001 to 2003, then stopped cold turkey all over. Have not touched any since. Talk about a shock at the $5 -$7 a pack of Winstons when I started again.
10 -13.5$ now (here anyway).
I might have a few yrs on ya as I remember the 25¢ smokes'n 25/gal gasoline (mid '60s?)
You housed some of our (from the N & NE) small industries B4 the flight abroad - furniture, Gardner, MA; shoes Brockton, MA (google it) as I recall. Currently a few big industry (cars) your way.
Worse, we had the world by the short hairs in tool & cutting (machines that make machines) from the Industrial Revolution till early '70s when 1/4ly stocks & arbitrage did the same (sent it offshore) - that's 300 yrs. All's left is a few aerospace machine shops (from those skills). The rust belt here (cloth mills of Lowell, Lawrence; 'paper city' - Holyoke, is as poor now as E. LA, Harlem'n Carrizo Springs). The multinationals have no sense (but cents). Its 50 yrs of the same starting back then.
I might have a few yrs on ya as I remember the 25¢ smokes'n 25/gal gasoline (mid '60s?)
You housed some of our (from the N & NE) small industries B4 the flight abroad - furniture, Gardner, MA; shoes Brockton, MA (google it) as I recall. Currently a few big industry (cars) your way.
Worse, we had the world by the short hairs in tool & cutting (machines that make machines) from the Industrial Revolution till early '70s when 1/4ly stocks & arbitrage did the same (sent it offshore) - that's 300 yrs. All's left is a few aerospace machine shops (from those skills). The rust belt here (cloth mills of Lowell, Lawrence; 'paper city' - Holyoke, is as poor now as E. LA, Harlem'n Carrizo Springs). The multinationals have no sense (but cents). Its 50 yrs of the same starting back then.
That makes you a Gold Member of the club
I'm still convinced I can find those $3.99 breakfast specials: 2 eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, toast. Add coffee for $1.50.
67 today. I am noticing that I am making more mental mistakes.
67 today. I am noticing that I am making more mental mistakes.
I didn't see one of these ...
Or, one of these ...
How about this:
Or you ever wore a pair of plaid ToughSkins to school.
Then this:
I had to much caffeine - but I'll finish with this :
Don't forget flared corduroy's and WIDE belts and zipper boots
I had one of those in 1971, except it was a cheaper brand. Lowest I ever paid for gas was 24.9 cents. What I remember best is driving across the country and service stations being at regular intervals on the major highways (not freeways). Anyway, today is my 70th birthday, so I am starting to get old.
I absolutely did wear cords when I had to get dressed up. Wider the better belts!Don't forget flared corduroy's and WIDE belts and zipper boots
Boots with the ring. Yeah!
Only because your mom loved you, LOL.
Anyone have a blue denim 3 piece suit?
