who remembers 1968?

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:18 pm

Found a receipt for my lawnmower Victa Corvette 160cc still goes- that was bought in late '68 for $130 after non specified trade in. A valiant regal 225 with auto, air and $120 radio was $4000. A pack of PK chewy or a paddle pop was about 4 cents.

Wondering what an average wage was back then as comparo. A new Victa in 2 stroke now is about $600, but reckon $130 back then would be similar to $1300 now ~ about two weeks wages before tax for some wage earners. maybe buying power in these things has doubled in 40 years?

subybrumby · Post by **subybrumby** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:41 pm

When I first started work at 15 in ahh lets see, 1971, I was a first year apprentice motor mechanic. Weekly wage was about $24. I later had an FB holden sedan. At our garage that my parents owned, fuel was 53c gallon for super, 50c for standard. Kerosene was 42 cents gallon. A grease and oil change done by me on your car was $2.50 for the hoist and grease and I think oil was fairly cheap too. A can of coke, 17cents thats for the steel can, soft drinks in the aluminium can 16c. For 24dollars I had to give mum board, fill my car and have some money for the pictures.

Yeah, they were the days..if you got a squeeze and a kiss at the flicks, you were doing alright...aahhhhh

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:49 pm

Not me

I wasn't even a twinkle in my fathers eyes

:D:D

riksta · Post by **riksta** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:56 pm

I was only 4 years old and I thought 10c was a big deal, what I could bye with that back then at the corner store makes me smile.

Rik.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:43 pm

1968 is about the first year I remember things but was not into currency stuff for a few more years. 1971 I could get three tarzan jubes for a cent! Tasted pretty horrible but. Wash the snail out of a milk bottle, take it up to the shop and you'd trade it for 4 cents worth of lollies that was enough to fill small white paper bag. Plagons were better a few years later, they got ten cents.

poprock1 · Post by **poprock1** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:47 pm

1967,worked as a cleaner at a geriatric hospital, $38wk; 1968 joined the army,$86 week,trained as army aviation fitter 1969 $110wk Drum tobacco 65c.Death was cheap then.1971 left army became concretor $75wk; now a pensioner ,$530 wk combined pensioner,best purchasing power for the dollar was 1971 .

Post by **TOONGA** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:50 pm

I was 3 years old in 1968 I remember one night in 1969 mainly because mum work me up to watch those guys walk on the moon

I remember 5 cent bags of lollies from the 70's that 5 children could share

TOONGA

FujiFan · Post by **FujiFan** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:00 pm

Whats a 1968?

d_generate · Post by **d_generate** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:30 am

I remember having my 11yo face on the front page of the Daily News with Prime Minister John Gorton.

Spitting the dummy when the old man bought a HK Kingswood wagon when I wanted him to get a Monaro.

Going around late at night pinching peoples milk money (supposed to be sleeping at a mates place) so we could go for the day to Garden Island on the ferry and break into said mates older sisters holiday house then raiding her drink cabinet.

Dad buying a large block on the beach at Warnboro for $300, literally a sand dune but unfortunately he sold it not long after.

Busdriver · Post by **Busdriver** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:41 am

5 years old, and I remember watching it snow in Albury from the front veranda with the whole family (I am youngest) and thinking "Whats the big deal?" and it has never snowed like that again here.

rtcb65 · Post by **rtcb65** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:14 am

I don't remember it . I was only 3 years old . Then again, my memory is like a turbo, what goes in , comes out faster. That might explain why i don't have any memory's of being 3..LOL

Subyroo · Post by **Subyroo** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:52 pm

poprock1 wrote:1967,worked as a cleaner at a geriatric hospital, $38wk; 1968 joined the army,$86 week,trained as army aviation fitter 1969 $110wk Drum tobacco 65c.Death was cheap then.1971 left army became concretor $75wk; now a pensioner ,$530 wk combined pensioner,best purchasing power for the dollar was 1971 .

I too joined the Army as Grunt, yearly salary was near on $3,000.00, I did have one of my old pay books laying around somewhere dunno where it is just at the moment.
My 3000 V6 Ford Capri (similar to this one) cost me $3,300.00 when I came home from Vietnam in 1971.

T'subaru · Post by **T'subaru** » Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:18 pm

This might date me as an old fart, but i recall watching in school the first manned apollo flight...in black and white..

d_generate · Post by **d_generate** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:03 am

We didn't get colour till 74 so even the moon landing which I watched in high school was in b&w.

seagull · Post by **seagull** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:12 am

gee your realy old Tom

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:02 am

colour telly was 75 in eastern australia surely ? watched Evil in colour jump grand canyon in a rocket. Tsubaru must have had a poor school, thought America went colour telly before we went telly in '56? My oldies rented a telly to watch the landing on the 'moon' with all those extra shadows

, then I think some little brat got hooked on bert and ernie

subybrumby · Post by **subybrumby** » Thu Nov 18, 2010 9:21 am

We watched the moon landing in 69. We were all let out of high school to go home and watch it. A few of us snuck over to a friends place and watched it from there with our girlfriends. I think we were supposed to go back to school after but we didn't, we had a bit of fun. I was the whole of 13. wow//I'll say it again, they were good days, Bit of squeeze in the back of the school bus.(ahhh)Summer of 69..and so forth..Mate I'm a child of the sixties, learnt to play guitar with the hippies..and still playin'