I remember crying when they all went to 25 cents, my allowance was a mere 20 cents, enough for 2 candy bars a week (bought at the corner liquor store, where they let me walk home bottles / beer for my mother and father routinely - occasionally I'd pull a wagon). Some value bars were still a nickel when the major brands were at 10 cents, then overnight my world was crushed by the quarter.
I remember 25¢ candy bars but also 25¢ gas. Everyone says those prices never converged, but there were these two gas stations on opposite sides of the highway near Henderson, KY, that had a price war.
@Pony I fondly remember ice cold 10 oz. Mountain Dew (hillbilly bottles) at the filling station for a nickel. And it tasted a whole lot better than the crap they bottle now.
@MrsPavlov Have you tried Mountain Dew throwback and Mountain Dew Moonshine yet? At least Mountain Dew throwback should be closer to what you remember.
@dashcloud Throwback is really close, but they modified some flavor components in the 90's when they moved exclusively to HFCS and it isn't a match. Also, the regional variances in taste disappeared with standardized water filtration by reverse osmosis in the early 80's and that probably has a lot to do with things.
DEWshine (http://www.mountaindew.com/dewshine/) actually tastes closer in many respects to what I remember as a child, but it isn't pee yellow and therefore not as fun.
Whatever they cost, they were largely paid for outta the paper machine in front of the local gas station. Change wasn't transferred past the coin return properly after people got their papers, so a few pushes of the button could net up to a couple dollars with each visit. Pity they finally fixed it after a year or two.
I think they were $.45 cents when I was a wee one. I remember I used to walk to the liquor store to buy Now and Laters ($.35) and a Gatorade in a glass bottle ($.79) when I was like 7.
$0.25 here - maybe cheaper, but that's the lowest price I remember. I recall being able to get a bar, a bag of chips and a large chocolate milk for $1.01.
Also, where I live, we call them "chocolate bars" - you almost never hear "candy bar", although everyone here would know what you mean.
Must have been a nickel. (I don't remember a whole lot about my childhood, I think I lost a lot of those memories in that car accident when I was sixteen...when a drunk ran a stop sign and broadsided our car.)
But when I was in my early twenties and living the wild life (sex and drugs and rock and roll), at the corner Circle K (like a 7-11), on hangover mornings, we'd go over there and buy candy bars, ten for a buck.
I lived in the city and I clearly remember candy cars costing 50 cents. But if you cross the border to say Indiana or maybe a few of the suburbs, they were about 35 to 45 cents and I recalled being pissed. My introduction to inflation or whatever the proper term it is called.
I grew up during the stagflation of the 70s. I think they were 10 cents when I started buying them but the price went up several times in a year or two.
I remember crying when they all went to 25 cents, my allowance was a mere 20 cents, enough for 2 candy bars a week (bought at the corner liquor store, where they let me walk home bottles / beer for my mother and father routinely - occasionally I'd pull a wagon). Some value bars were still a nickel when the major brands were at 10 cents, then overnight my world was crushed by the quarter.
http://www.candywrapperarchive.com/candy-collector/candy-prices-over-the-years/
50¢!!!!!???
You young whippersnappers get off my lawn!
Crap I'm old. Hershey bars were 5 cents.
@transplant and the big ones were 10 cents
I remember 25¢ candy bars but also 25¢ gas. Everyone says those prices never converged, but there were these two gas stations on opposite sides of the highway near Henderson, KY, that had a price war.
I can't remember how much candy bars were, but I remember I could walk to the little store down the road and buy a bottle of grape soda for 7¢.
@Pony I fondly remember ice cold 10 oz. Mountain Dew (hillbilly bottles) at the filling station for a nickel. And it tasted a whole lot better than the crap they bottle now.
@MrsPavlov Have you tried Mountain Dew throwback and Mountain Dew Moonshine yet? At least Mountain Dew throwback should be closer to what you remember.
@dashcloud Throwback is really close, but they modified some flavor components in the 90's when they moved exclusively to HFCS and it isn't a match. Also, the regional variances in taste disappeared with standardized water filtration by reverse osmosis in the early 80's and that probably has a lot to do with things.
DEWshine (http://www.mountaindew.com/dewshine/) actually tastes closer in many respects to what I remember as a child, but it isn't pee yellow and therefore not as fun.
I know this wrong, but they cost me nothing because i would employ squirrels to my bidding as a kid. They worked for peanuts.
@mfladd It's ok. You can just tell us you don't remember being a kid. We get it. It has been a while.
@christinewas Keep talkin, but I can't hear you - speak up!
Whatever they cost, they were largely paid for outta the paper machine in front of the local gas station. Change wasn't transferred past the coin return properly after people got their papers, so a few pushes of the button could net up to a couple dollars with each visit. Pity they finally fixed it after a year or two.
35 cents. I remember it well...
More than I could afford back then.
I think they were $.45 cents when I was a wee one. I remember I used to walk to the liquor store to buy Now and Laters ($.35) and a Gatorade in a glass bottle ($.79) when I was like 7.
They didn't have candy bars, back in the 1300s.
$0.25 here - maybe cheaper, but that's the lowest price I remember. I recall being able to get a bar, a bag of chips and a large chocolate milk for $1.01.
Also, where I live, we call them "chocolate bars" - you almost never hear "candy bar", although everyone here would know what you mean.
Must have been a nickel. (I don't remember a whole lot about my childhood, I think I lost a lot of those memories in that car accident when I was sixteen...when a drunk ran a stop sign and broadsided our car.)
But when I was in my early twenties and living the wild life (sex and drugs and rock and roll), at the corner Circle K (like a 7-11), on hangover mornings, we'd go over there and buy candy bars, ten for a buck.
I lived in the city and I clearly remember candy cars costing 50 cents. But if you cross the border to say Indiana or maybe a few of the suburbs, they were about 35 to 45 cents and I recalled being pissed. My introduction to inflation or whatever the proper term it is called.
I grew up during the stagflation of the 70s. I think they were 10 cents when I started buying them but the price went up several times in a year or two.
None of the above: I grew up in a country with a different currency.