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Originally Posted by Cujo
Awesome thread guys. Went through twice just in case I missed something.
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I remember walking into the IDA (drug store) with a dime and walking out with a small paper bag brimming with penny candy.
I remember when smokes were $1.50 a pack, a 2-4 was 19 bucks and a mickey of lonestar was $9.
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did you ever buy that stuff that was basically icing sugar in a yellow paper bag, with a black licorice stick that you would stick in and then lick? IDA had those.
for me, I remember being on a $5.00 per week allowance while I was in residence in first year. My dad would actually mail me a $5.00 bill so I would have spending money. 50 cents went towards laundry ( a quarter for the washer, and a quarter for the drier - it was cheap because it was in residence at the university) and of the remaining $4.50, $4.40 would go towards a 12pack of Molson Canadian.
12 packs were $4.40 and 2-4's were $8.80.
Imagine that. And that was only in 1979.