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Re: I mean....a $10 McDonalds gift card would have bought you
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Jul 19, 2025, 8:56 PM
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Hand raised…
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Re: Raise your hand if this makes you feel....REAL OLD......
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Jul 19, 2025, 8:58 PM
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Makes me feel lucky that I lived to be old!
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Jul 19, 2025, 9:14 PM
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On a positive note, IN N Out Burger is moving their headquarters to Franklin, TN with plans for the Southeast. Hopefully people soon will never have to eat McD's again unless breakfast.
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CU Guru [1538]
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Jul 20, 2025, 7:00 PM
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Some of y’all will boycott it. It hails from California.
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Jul 19, 2025, 9:18 PM
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Whats the cheapest gas price you recall? For me, maybe 61 cents.
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Jul 19, 2025, 9:22 PM
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I worked at a service station (not just a gas station!) in the 8th grade. I’m 67 now. They raised the price to 30cents/gallon. I said they would never sale a single gallon at that price!
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Clemson Icon [25449]
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Re: Raise your hand if this makes you feel....REAL OLD......
Jul 20, 2025, 9:44 PM
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Man we were fooled 😂 Before I knew it gas was at .60 to .70 cents a gallon. That’s when people started buying Honda Civics.
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Jul 19, 2025, 9:29 PM
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.25.
I remember because I could take a gallon milk jug up the corner and fill it and go cut the neighborhood yards all day for $5 a yard
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Re: Raise your hand if this makes you feel....REAL OLD......
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Jul 19, 2025, 11:29 PM
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I remember a .25 cents gas war.
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Ultimate Tiger [38461]
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Jul 20, 2025, 2:41 PM
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Yep. I remember that price and you could get your oil checked, free air for tires, windshield cleaned and gas pumped for that .19 a gal. $1.00 would get you 5 gallons with 5 cents change back.
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Re: Raise your hand if this makes you feel....REAL OLD......
Jul 20, 2025, 2:46 PM
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...and cigarettes were a quarter a pack at the Blue Flash in Tabor City.
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Re: Raise your hand if this makes you feel....REAL OLD......
Jul 20, 2025, 3:00 PM
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I rember when pigs were $1.00 a carton or .15 a pack.
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Jul 19, 2025, 11:47 PM
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Commuted to NGJC from G'ville for the 65-66 and 66-67 school years. At times the Mom&Pop stores above Greer would have gas wars. Lowest I recall was .17. Think the usual price was .32-.35.
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Jul 20, 2025, 12:28 AM
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I remember buying regular for 19.9 cents a gallon when driving through Amarillo one time in the late 1960s. They were having a "gas war" there at the time.
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Back before the gov't started telling us what was
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Jul 19, 2025, 9:38 PM
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good for our health.
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Re: Back before the gov't started telling what was
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Jul 19, 2025, 10:46 PM
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Probably healthier to get rid of McDs instead of the ashtrays inside.🤣
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I had stacks of both in my old apartment back when
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Jul 19, 2025, 11:07 PM
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Nostalgia for sure. Used to smoke in the mall, flying, eating, etc...
Amazing what 20 years can do to an entire generation of smokers quitting and less youth smokers. Although I guess they all JUUL or whatever these days
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Jul 19, 2025, 9:26 PM
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When I was 12 yrs. old, a Quarter-pounder with cheese, large fry, and an apple pie was $1.04 including tax. I remember the day it went up to $1.10 because all I had was $1.04. The cashier smiled and through in 6 cents and said don't worry about it. Yeah, I'm old.
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Remember .29 cents per gallon gas
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Jul 19, 2025, 9:32 PM
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I think!
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Head Coach [979]
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1968, junior in HS. 2 gals and 3 guys just finishing our McDonald's after school meal in Greenwich, CT. We all blew our cash (59-89 cents each). Got into the split rear window WV and had no gas to get back to Stamford. Dug between and under the seats and came up with 34 cents. Went across the street to the Gulf station where the attendant let us borrow a gas can and got over 1 gallon of gas (28 cents/gal). Tooled back with rear tires bowed out with all that weight. Ahhh...those were the days!!!
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Starke, Florida. 1958. 6 years old.
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Walked, with my other brother and a few other guys in the neighborhood almost every Saturday to the movie theatre. (There was almost always a western playing.) Mom gave us a quarter. 10 cents for the ticket. 5 cents for a coke. 5 cents for a candy bar. And, yes, we had to bring the nickel home. She didn't want us rotting out teeth.
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....and that candy bar was the size of a double one now.....adn THOSE DILL
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Jul 20, 2025, 12:58 PM
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PICKLES in a 3 gallon jar.....
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I can r'member when a bean burrito
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Jul 19, 2025, 9:37 PM
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(extra cheese and onions) was 74 cent at the Taco Bell near the dorm there in Waco, Texas.
Back when trucks had ashtrays that doubled as change drawers and reaching in there and finding a couple of quarters, a few nickels, a dime and some pennies was like hitting the lottery.
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Mom gave us a dollar for lunch. Went to the golden arches.
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Jul 19, 2025, 9:39 PM
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Hamburger, fries and a shake. "Make sure you bring the change back."
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Re: Raise your hand if this makes you feel....REAL OLD......
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Well… my hand is up. Thanks for reminding me how outrageous prices are these days.
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Early 80s, I remember a guy.. him and his friends used to
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smoke pot then go to the MickeyD’s for a few dozen cheeseburgers. He told me those $0.39 cheeseburgers tasted really, really good and better than usual when they did that. lol
Don’t know whatever happened to to that dude, but I imagine he grew up and had a good life 🙂
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Jul 19, 2025, 11:13 PM
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I remember in the late 60s when....
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Jul 19, 2025, 11:23 PM
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you could get a Big Mac for $.55 and a large fry for $.35 - $.90 total + tax.
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DOOD, I ate the first million hamburgers McDonalds fried up.
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Jul 20, 2025, 2:36 AM
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I remember Scotties. They were basically mobile homes set up all across the south. A quarter bought you two burgers, fries and small coke. They looked like the old Crystal burgers and half a dollar would buy more than a teenage boy wanted. 1950s and 60s.
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When I was going to Clemson gas was 29.9 per gal...
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Re: Raise your hand if this makes you feel....REAL OLD......
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A McDonald's hamburger, fries, and Coke cost $ 0.99.
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Re: Raise your hand if this makes you feel....REAL OLD......
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I remember sometime in the late 70’s at a Citadel basketball camp, they let us order from Burger King one day for lunch. I don’t remember the exact price but I think I got 5 Whopper Juniors for $3. I was a little guy so no one believed I could eat that many.
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Hand raised... when I was a senior in high school in 1985 I went to McDonald's every day for lunch, senior HS perks and it cost me $3.25 for QPCheese , Large Fries, Large Coke and .05 sales tax (not as cheap as YouTube video, but cheap)
Go Tigers!! 🐅 💪
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Jul 20, 2025, 6:56 AM
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Spud, if I had seen those prices in the '60s, I would have been shocked at how high they were. I think a McDonald's burger was $0.15. Their motto was "Burger, fries and a drink with change back from your dollar."
I guess that makes me older than old..... 
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That’s about all they’re worth now, too. I used to like the food, but I rarely get anything there now.
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Jul 20, 2025, 11:48 AM
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And then the welfare state destroyed the dollar
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Jul 20, 2025, 12:40 PM
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Add me to the old club
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Remember collecting soda bottles on side of road and turning them in to grocery store for deposit money?
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Re: Raise your hand if this makes you feel....REAL OLD......
Jul 20, 2025, 2:38 PM
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Those prices are exorbitant. I remember when McD's first opened in Greenville, SC, the reg. hamburger was 10 cents, cheeseburger was 15 cents, ff were 10 cents and soda was 10 cents. And gasoline was 23 cents gal. For a dollar. You could treat a date really well.i think the White Horse Road drive in theater .25 cents for adults and children under 12 was free. Don't remember concessions prices because we brought our own food.
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Jul 20, 2025, 4:06 PM
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Definitely in that category. Thanks Spud!!!’n
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$0.25 Hardee hamburgers...
Jul 20, 2025, 5:24 PM
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When I was a preteen/teen I'd order 4 and my parents would complain I was costing them too much.
And then Taco Cid - $0.25 tacos - I'd order 8 of those and eat every bite. Ah, the good old days.
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Jul 20, 2025, 6:22 PM
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Does anyone remember Roller Coaster night at Bullwinkle's where draft started at .05 then went up every 30 mins until it hit .25 then rolled back to .05? Good Times!
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Jul 20, 2025, 6:59 PM
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Hand raised and you guys have better memories than me. Do remember the ad burger, fries, and drink … and change for your dollar. Anyone remember Clemson football ticket price from the 60’s ?
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Dynasty Maker [3141]
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The actual hash brown and apple pie in those photos were really made in the 1980s.
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Clemson Icon [25449]
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Jul 20, 2025, 9:38 PM
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I remember their commercials about getting Fries, a burger and drink and still get change from your $1 dollar bill. And you walked to a counter standing outside. There may have been a few tables with an umbrella outside. Finally they expanded to the indoor dining area.
Thanks for bringing back some great memories with my Dad. After we ate he would put me up front and my sister in the middle secure us to him with a belt. Then we would drive over to Spartanburg on his Cushman Motorcycle . It looked like what the GPD would use when they walked a beat and rode a motorcycle patrolling Greenville, SC.
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Clemson Icon [25449]
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Jul 20, 2025, 10:04 PM
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Anybody remember when you could buy or register to win a banana seat bank at an Amaco or Essco now Exxon full service gas stations.
Who remembers recapped tires ??
Bulky 8 track tape players ??
Who joined the Columbia record club got your free albums and the moved on. Never paid a dime because many like me were 8 to 10 years old ??
Great days without a laptop, cell phone and all of this coming AI in the year or two ? All you needed was a bike, ball glove, football 🏈, helmet with no padding, wooden baseball bat, and a few other toys. We were happy as could be.
I went into a restaurant the other night a family group of 12 were eating out. Why ?? Everyone at the table was on an I-Phone. Kids, mom and dad. No wonder we have communication problems in society.
Wow, how life has changed from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s then technology hit.
Thinks to all who shared memories. Sometimes it’s good to look back 😊
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