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Join Date: Jan 2016
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Wow, Keith you must be really, really old!
"Remember Getty?red. Agway?green". Wow, what year was that? I actually remember getting that gas for 25 cents a gallon. I told my son that I used to buy gas for a quarter, and he thought I was kidding. |
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Location: Cow Hampshire
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Historically, Congress increased the minimum wage fairly regularly to adjust for the cost of living, but that changed in the 1980s. Key historical rates: [1]
I remember $1.25 which is what it was when gasoline was $0.26 per gallon. (About 1964) 9 years old and allowed to mow with a "power" reel mower. I remember the step change to $1.60. We all thought we were rich! Joe K
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