[nfbwatlk] Oh for the good ole days!

[Mike Freeman]

I remember my grandmother taking me to downtown Portland on the Rose 
City Transit bus. She was progressive in that she expected her blind 
grandson to learn to do just about everything that sighted people do. So 
she handed me the money and, showing me the farebox, said: "You put your 
fifteen cents in here!". I did.

And there was the demise of penny postcards and Eisenhower proposed that 
a regular stamp go from three cents to four! Wow!

But not everything was rosier back in that day. I remember a 
retrospective in American Heritage Magazine a few years ago wherein 
people gave their impressions of 1955 and its difference from today 
(2000, perhaps?) and one guy said that one thing he remembered from 1955 
was all the "snow" on peoples' clothes -- we didn't wash our hair every 
day back then and there was a helluva lot of dandruff floating around!

Mike

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carl Jarvis
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  Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:43 AM
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  Thanks for the stroll down memory lane, Bob.
  Sad to say, I remember all these prices.  In fact, I remember some 
prices
  before that long ago day.
  When I was a boy, they raised the price of the Seattle Times, PI and 
Star
  from 2 cents to a nickel.  I had a Seattle Star paper route in 1945, 
and
  collected 75 cents a month.  They had no Sunday paper.  But the Times 
and PI
  were 1.25 per month.
  My first summer job was for wage minimum.  75 cents per hour.  But 
when I
  graduated from high school in 1954, I worked all summer at 1.00 per 
hour and
  saved enough to pay for my college tuition.  The university of 
Washington
  cost me 55 dollars per quarter.  Books cost between 2.50 and 4.00 
each.  Bus
  fare was a dime, and I bought an athletic card that got me into all U 
of W
  games free, for only 5 bucks.
  But even so, many was the day that I was so broke that I walked the 
three
  miles to college, and home again.
  Carl Jarvis

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I remember my grandmother taking me to downtown Portland on the Rose City Transit bus. She was progressive in that she expected her blind grandson to learn to do just about everything that sighted people do. So she handed me the money and, showing me the farebox, said: "You put your fifteen cents in here!". I did.
 
And there was the demise of penny postcards and Eisenhower proposed that a regular stamp go from three cents to four! Wow!
 
But not everything was rosier back in that day. I remember a retrospective in American Heritage Magazine a few years ago wherein people gave their impressions of 1955 and its difference from today (2000, perhaps?) and one guy said that one thing he remembered from 1955 was all the "snow" on peoples' clothes -- we didn't wash our hair every day back then and there was a helluva lot of dandruff floating around!
 
Mike
 
----- Original Message -----
From:
mailto:carjar at olypen.com Carl Jarvis
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Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:43 AM
Subject:
Re: [nfbwatlk] Oh for the good ole days!
Thanks for the stroll down memory lane, Bob.
Sad to say, I remember all these prices.  In fact, I remember some prices
before that long ago day.
When I was a boy, they raised the price of the Seattle Times, PI and Star
from 2 cents to a nickel.  I had a Seattle Star paper route in 1945, and
collected 75 cents a month.  They had no Sunday paper.  But the Times and PI
were 1.25 per month.
My first summer job was for wage minimum.  75 cents per hour.  But when I
graduated from high school in 1954, I worked all summer at 1.00 per hour and
saved enough to pay for my college tuition.  The university of Washington
cost me 55 dollars per quarter.  Books cost between 2.50 and 4.00 each.  Bus
fare was a dime, and I bought an athletic card that got me into all U of W
games free, for only 5 bucks.
But even so, many was the day that I was so broke that I walked the three
miles to college, and home again.
Carl Jarvis
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