Think About This Everytime You Find A Old Silver Coin

[tabman]

[size=large]"The average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour."[/size]

tabman

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I am glad you said "Average". My Grandfather worked from sunrise to sunset driving a team of horses hauling logs. He made the princely sum of fifty cents per day. He would be in the lumber camp for two to three months at a time. The 1906 Barber Quarter I found a couple of months ago would have been half of one days wages for him.

 

[tabman]

I am glad you said "Average". My Grandfather worked from sunrise to sunset driving a team of horses hauling logs. He made the princely sum of fifty cents per day. He would be in the lumber camp for two to three months at a time. The 1906 Barber Quarter I found a couple of months ago would have been half of one days wages for him.

Yep, that's what I'm talking about. A quarter was a lot of money back then. Heck even in the late 50's and early 60's you could buy a hand dipped ice cream cone or a Babe Ruth candy bar that was big enough to choke a mule to death for a nickel.

I bet back in the real old days people cried the blues when they lost a pocket full of silver coins.

tabman

 

[scubadetector]

Also if you think about it, gas is still .20

 

[MonsterTab]

Also if you think about it, gas is still .20

 

[Archimedes24]

Excellent point tabman.

I burst out laughing reading this, "Heck even in the late 50's and early 60's you could buy a hand dipped ice cream cone or a Babe Ruth candy bar that was big enough to choke a mule to death for a nickel." They still sell those "KING SIZED" candy bars big enough to choke mules...they just cost 40X as much as back then.

 

[BarryL]

What makes me sick is back in the 60's my mother gave me a half dollar every day to pay for my lunch at school every day for 4 yrs she tried two Quarters but it seems sometimes I lost one of them before lunch went back to the elementry school I attended back in those days thinking why not might get lucky sure enough Paved over for a parking lot an new school built across the road

 

[sparkster]

My first job paid 75 cents an hour. No such thing as overtime. I worked from 5 am to 7 am, went to school at 8am then worked from 5 pm to 9 pm in the evening. I always had money. Gas was 19 cents per gallon, bread was 25 cents a loaf. You could buy a hamburger for 15 cents, frys for a dime and a coke for a nickel. Those were the days.

 

[5900_XL-1]

I could buy a plate lunch at the Dairy Queen back in the early sixties that I could hardly finish...for way less than one dollar. I was an active, growing kid, so that's saying lots. I can't imagine what losing silvers back before and shortly after the turn of the century would be like, much less something reall anxient. Yea, it is real interesting to ponder the money trail of losses. Who woulda lost a half dollar or a gold, and why? martin

 

[fowlercharles]

Hi Sparkster, yeah, I also started at 75 cents an hrour.Working "Can to Can't" Summertime in S.Ar cleaning oilfield Tank Batteries/seperators(fired up) in prep for paint crew. That summer I turned 15 and my buddy was still 14. Hardest ,hottest, nasiiest job I ever had with the grouchiest, meanest, hard nosed SOB of a Bossman any working hand could surely wish not to have. You are so right too and those actually were the days, some of them good and LOL, some not so good ! I would not trade a one of them for anything. HH, Charlie.

 

[edjcox]

I was 14 and worked running rides and assembling them and breaking them down at .80 an hour. Worked from sunup to dark and then some under the lights if needed. My SS statement said I paid in $209.00 that year... 1965.. Can't imagine what I spent my fortune on... AMOCO clear was .22 cents or so... Filled many a lawnmower with it. Army paid me $90.00 a month wow that was living... Now they want me to wait till I'm dead to collect on all the money I paid in... Entitlements BS. That's my money their talking about. I earned it and I want it all back..

Found a .50 cent piece from the 50's... Yeah the missed it when it went...

 

[Woodstock]

Those days seem to be better but we need to remember this . I got my license at 16 in 1971 and gas was 19.9 cents a gallon , and new AMC Gremlin was $1995 and cig's were 32 cents a pack . You could buy a hamberger , fries and coke for seventy four cents (remember the old comercial? You could buy a coke for a dime at the gas station too . My rent when I was 18 was $ 85 (w/ utility's) a month for a one bedroom but I was also making a whopping $1.75 per hour and I still had problems paying it , but I fondly remember it being better. Today everything seems a lot higher and back then and most everything seemed better then than now . But we need to step back and remember it wasn't as a easy life as we remember it to be way back when ... we just remember it that way. Happy Trails , Woodstock

 

[Mswenson289]

I read an article recently that goes along these lines. During the start of the civil war those in the cavalry (both sides) had to supply their own horse and were paid 40 cents a day for use of that horse. Feed was supplies by the government.