1970's Prices: What Did Things Cost

[@jameswillett7186]

I remember in 1979 a Milky Way or a Snickers bar was 25 cents. You could be four for a dollar now you can't even buy one for a dollar. A chocolate bar is about 1.39 near me and the chocolate bars today are probably about 25 percent smaller than 1979.

[@jameswillett7186]

buy not be

[@BenvolioCapulet9]

I remember cans of soda were also a quarter at that time

[@BeeFunKnee]

You're younger than myself, I recall when those candy bars were a nickel, then went up to a WHOLE dime! They tasted much better also. They were bigger, too. Sodas were a dime, fifteen cents for name brand ones. That was late sixties, early seventies.

[@louc4130]

@@BeeFunKnee Yep! so do I. You probably also remember the best tasting cookie ever, back then.......the "Ideal cookie Bar"!

[@BeeFunKnee]

@@louc4130 Can't honestly say I recall that particular one. But then again we made our cookies from scratch back then, so I might have missed out on that one. Everything we made was right out of the recipe book.

[@garylivingston9052]

$4.74 for the largest pizza, now they are around $30.00+ that is a giant increase.

[@davidmc8475]

Using an inflation calculator a pizza costing $4.74 would cost $27.52. The cost of hiring an employee is higher today than in the 70's example payroll taxes in 1975 was 9.9% and today it's 15.3% even though 1/2 is paid by the employee it's still part of the costs of employing someone along with healthcare cost if the employee receives that benefit. Then depending on where you live did state and local sales taxes go up or down.

[@garylivingston9052]

@@davidmc8475 A new house was 25-30k in early 70's. Now is 400-500k for an average starter home in any good area of the country. That is the biggest inflated item making it really tough for anyone just starting out to be able to have one even when making a very good income. Increases like these are fueled by greed and there seems to be no shortage of that these days.

[@thaismatsumoto]

Geez..l just paid that for a large pizza with a 15 piece set of wings and a 2 liter soda and garlic bread. Not just a pizza.

[@garylivingston9052]

@@thaismatsumoto well $30+ would be a hand crafted pizza at an Italian restaurant, not a dominos or any of that crap.

[@MyMazyCat]

Not where we live! The largest size pizza with 4 toppings from Round Table would cost just under $50 in the bay area.

[@freespirit21newyork]

I was 5 back in 1970 and i don't remember the prices on things but i do remember my mom telling me the rent was $275 a month for a half of house it was a duplex, and we had a finished basement, a main floor, upstairs, attic, front porch ( not heated), a front yard, a backyard, front & back entrance, all in 1971 i remember moving day it was April 1971 i had the best childhood memories living there 💕🐥💕🪺🕊️🌺🌼

[@marksitts2290]

.15 for Coffee at McDonald's, now$4.15

[@BeeFunKnee]

And back then the McDonald's hamburgers tasted good, like beef even. You could smell them cooking as you drove past in a car, too. Made you feel hungry, and want to stop in. It's all garbage meat on a sesame seed sponge now. The fries tasted much better back then, too. Everything did. Now it don't. I stopped eating their junk decades ago. Fast food is no longer appetizing to me. I still have a McDonalds coffee stirring plastic "spoon" from the late 60's though!

[@donaldcharlton2569]

Even back then my family couldn't afford a lot of those things 20-50yrs from now people will be saying look how cheap things were back then😮🤣🤗!!!

[@drbluzer]

MCDONALD'S MENU PRICES @1:07 : QUARTER POUNDER HMBUGER WITH CHEESE : $0.70 QUARTER POUNDER HAMBURGER : $0.60 BIG MAC HAMBURGER $0.65 CHEESEBURGER : $0.33 HAMBURGER : $0.28 FILLET - 0 - FISH : $0.48 LARGE ORDER OF FRENCH FRIES : $0.46 REGULAR ORDER OF FRENCH FRIES : $0.26 HOT APPLE PIE : $0.26 MILK : $0.20 COFFEE : $0.15 HOT CHOCOLATE : $0.15 MILK SHAKES ( CHOCOLATE , STRAWBERRY , VANILLA ) : $035 SODAS ( COCA - COLA , ROOTBEER , ORANGEADE ) : $0.15 & $0.20 TRIPLE RIPPLE ICE CREAM CONE : $0.20

[@luisreyes1963]

A cheeseburger, large fries & a Coca-Cola would most definitely set me back $1.20 at McDonald's decades ago.

[@jacksquat4140]

@@luisreyes1963 : In the mid '70's my Dad could buy a McDonalds meal for our family of 5 for $7.00. The Big Macs were 40% larger back in those days as well.

[@ilovefashion-shesasupergee6019]

Thank you for watching! I appreciate it! If you lived in the 70s, do you remember any prices or things from that time? Let me know by commenting down below. I love learning new things! ❤

[@justanotherguy469]

No thing in the history of things have ever gotten more expensive, nor have they become cheaper. It is what you pay for the thing with that does. The currency is what has gotten more expensive.

[@elenagirelli170]

Please pray for protection over social income deposit..

[@sylviastreet]

Don ‘t forget the wages at that time. They coincided with the cost of everything.

[@SamtheMan0508]

Exactly! After taxes, I brought home less than $40 working in retail.

[@MillerMeteor74]

My parents first house was $23k in 1969, right in line with what was shown here. In the early 70s, I remember lunch in the school cafeteria was 40 cents. I remember in the late 70s, our church youth group used to take a bus ride to the other side of New Jersey for youth rallies, maybe once a month. Afterwards the bus would stop at our local Burger King, and I would get a Whopper with cheese, chocolate shake and onion rings, and that was a little over $3. The first time I ever noticed the price of gas it was 56.9. That could have been sometime around 1977-79? I don't remember any more. I know it was before I got my license, which was 1980. Oh, in 1975 my parents bought a new Chrysler Town and Country 3-seat wagon. I vaguely remember my dad saying it cost $7800.

[@gregorycutrera8326]

Why is the Radio Shack catalog page from 1984 if we’re showing 1970’s prices?

[@ilovefashion-shesasupergee6019]

Probably because I’m blind as a bat and made a mistake in putting it in. Sorry.

[@BeeFunKnee]

@@ilovefashion-shesasupergee6019 Bats use sonar, just use yours too!

[@sandysmiddy-qh5mj]

Back then you had polite women working the check out lines. Had to have a brain back then

[@BeeFunKnee]

Now they're all grumpy because they have to wait on you, and have to word period.

[@Walkercolt1]

We lost most power at Safeway's one ice-storm and five of us RAN the store for FOUR DAYS 24/7 and I added up groceries on the paper sack (in my head) they were going in and I carried out. People weren't happy we couldn't give Gunn Bros. trading stamps with the power off to the registers! "Safeway at Third and Trenton Ave. The anytime store where they never close the door." (Our radio commercial). We had customers drive-in on two or three inches of glare ice!!! Took most of 'em four or five "passes" to make the driveways...I put-out 700+ pounds of rock salt to keep the automatic doors working. I couldn't "shovel" the parking lot!

[@snookysnax]

do a cost comparison of just the last 3 years

[@SMac-bq8sk]

The Upside: Things were a LOT cheaper. The Downside: The fashions were a LOT cringey.

[@marcialrivas5870]

What is all of the glare in this commercial

[@Walkercolt1]

1971 the regular gasoline I pumped for you was 17.9 cents a gallon including 10.5 cents a gallon Oklahoma tax. One pound Hershey bars were 65 cents. Bread was .05 cents for a 16 ounce loaf (.12 for Wonder Bread 24 oz. sandwich), milk was .79 cents PER GALLON. "Minimum wage" (which didn't apply to most people like me and my Daddy) was $1.25 an hour. A four-year degree from Okla. State Univ. in Stillwater was less than $5000 with books and dorms (nobody lived in). "Kelly Burgers" were 10 for a dollar or cheeseburgers 8 for a dollar and were twice the weight of a McBurger (Sandy's cost the same), fries were .07 cents, onion rings, 15 cents. A five pound 18" Lea's Pizza (only one pizza slut in town) was $4.99 with up to TWELVE MEATS! "Royal" grade bone-in-rib-eye steak, $3.98 a pound, custom cut and aged by a REAL butcher in a store or Butcher's Shop. Coke, Pepsi IN A 16 ounce DEPOSIT BOTTLE .07 cents (.02 cents deposit). A NEW Chevy Impala four door AC/P/S, auto/P/B, $3488 delivered (Daddy bought one of those turds! In six years, the rear fenders and trunk were RUSTING OFF so we couldn't use the trunk!) we dumped it off on a guy for $700 (poor sap!).

[@martinpotter8139]

Prices in the UK in 1977: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXbGg2etlr-dY80

[@ilovefashion-shesasupergee6019]

Saw it! It was great! 28p/lb for peas🤩! Wow!

[@rorycarter7792]

How much were you making back then is the real question the compliant of high prices would be the same as today

[@BeeFunKnee]

My minimum wage job paid for a month's rent using only 2.5 weeks worth, then I had all the rest to spend. Now, that minimum wage job might pay the bills, leaving the rent unpaid. Things have gotten smaller, cheaper and the quality has disappeared.

[@Walkercolt1]

I never earned as much as when I started work (1968) at 13 1/2 for .75 cents an hour as a sacker/carry-out boy for Safeway. My very slightly used 1964 Honda Hawk was $500-the guy traded it in on a CB-450C for just over $2000 new.