By
kiki
When Connie and I married in 1954, my take-home pay was $50.00 a week. That added up to
about $200.00 a month…We rented a furnished one-bedroom apartment in Montebello, CA, for $50.00 a month (including
utilities), and for approximately $12.00 a week, we ate darn good. I didn't have a car payment
as I drove a '40 Chevy that I bought for $75.00 cash; gas was around $ .19 a
gallon and $ .10 for a quart of reclaimed oil. I drove without insurance till the early '60s, so there was no expense there…Entertainment was cheap back then, $1.50 for a whole carload at the local drive-in….In those gentler and simpler times, the most I
had to worry about was if my car would start in the mornings so I could get
to work…I loved the '50s!!
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