I'm 70, which may seem old to some and not others. Thinking back to when I was a kid around age 12 here are some approximate prices I or my parents paid. 10¢ bottle of pop and 2¢ if you turned in a bottle 5¢ for a small root beer, 10¢ for a large root beer and 15¢ for a root beer float Gasoline when I was 17 cost 11¢ a gallon when there were gas wars and around 20¢ tops other times .22 bullets were 55¢ a box for 50 My new Chevelle Malibu with a 327 was $2500.00 in 1964 I remember our local Gambles store carrying guns, a Remington 66 was less than $70 but a lot of people didn't want it because it had a plastic stock. My trip to the doctor cost less than $5.00 and when I spent over a week in the hospital as a sophomore in high school the bill came to $900. Corn sold for about $1 and soybeans ran somewhere around $2.35 a bushel. We bought feeder cattle a few at a time (to make a load) for around $.15 or $.16 then fattened them and trucked them to the Chicago stock yards and got a cent or two more when they weighed 1000 to 1100 pounds. New shirts were around $2.00 I can't recall the price of jeans. Paper back books cost 25¢ to 35¢ Dad looked at a John Deere 4010 and it was around $5500 (that was a new tractor) These are just some of the prices I recall. Maybe some of you will recall others. | 
costs since I was a kid
