Remembering when you could eat for cheap

[Johnny Bravo]

Remember when you could take $1.00 to the store as a kids and get a bag full and candy....2 cent pieces of bubble gum, 5 or 10 cent bubs daddy bubble gum, 10 cent fire sticks..ah, those were the days.....

 

[Steiny77]

We have a little bar a few miles away that has all large pizzas for $12 and $2 domestic beers on Monday evenings.
A Wendys single meal today was $11.50

 

[mevertsen]

$2 all you could eat tacos with all the sides for Monday night football, plus nickel draft beer. Holiday Inn Elko NV many moons ago

That place is shuddered now. When I was a kid, lived in Spring Creek, and would spend whole weekends with my grandparents in Elko. We would go there and go swimming everytime. It was a good time.

Wife and I stayed there after our wedding on our way to Utah.

Had a friend's wedding reception there maybe 13 years ago.

I know not the theme of the thread, but it is sad to see it like it is after it being kind of a center of that part of town for so long. Go to Elko every week, and it seems to be falling more into disrepair.

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

Dad Made $5.00 an hour. Stay at home Mom, 3 kids. We never went without. Ate out usually on Friday evening at different places. I remember McD's burgers being 15 cents at their only location in our area.

 

[Hem]

I remember in high school you pumped your gas, then paid. It also was possible to pump gas, clear the meter, and start over....if the clerk inside was distracted.
Some kids were devious little bastards.
Gas was cheap in the 80's.

 

[Tradewind]

Bakery/Deli I still stop at, some years ago had fresh cake donuts for 55 cents and raised glaze for 85 cents.
Now $1.98 for cake and 3.45 for glazed. The simple pleasures are now a luxury.

 

[Hilljackoutlaw]

Shongo, NY bar Monday nights $8 for a dozen wings and a pitcher of beer. When I was young and had no money this was the best. For 10 dollar bill i could eat, drink, and leave a tip. Good times good times!

 

[brymoore]

Shongo, NY bar Monday nights $8 for a dozen wings and a pitcher of beer. When I was young and had no money this was the best. For 10 dollar bill i could eat, drink, and leave a tip. Good times good times!

There was a bar in Pittsburgh that had free hot wings on Monday, 75 cent IC lights. Dinner cost me $3 plus a tip.

 

[npaden]

Bakery/Deli I still stop at, some years ago had fresh cake donuts for 55 cents and raised glaze for 85 cents.
Now $1.98 for cake and 3.45 for glazed. The simple pleasures are now a luxury.

$3.45 for a glazed donut!?

They are $1.10 here, $6 for a half dozen. Cake donuts are the same price though.

Just a couple years ago quite a few places had a $1 menu. It’s a “value” menu now.

Fast food has gotten more expensive than sit down restaurants.

Somehow pizza hasn’t really gone up that much out of all the inflation.