---- Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, my experience was similar.  In 1969 when I got my first real "job" (just over broke) as a newly minted college grad, I made $6500/year as a bench chemist.  That's $38k/year today.  Guess what?  There has been no real wage growth since 1969!
>
> Stuart
> Quit being a chemist in 1976

Went to work as a high school biology teacher in 1967.  $6000 a year.  Left that line of work after five years.  But whereas there has been no wage growth overall, for teachers ---------- starting pay in the same part of the country where I worked then is now around $30K.  So teachers have lost ground.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Dave Mcneely
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 1:19 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Gasoline $$ :-(
>
> Well, things change, don't they?  I drove my mother's Rambler American to commute to college in the 1960s.  Gas was $0.18 per gallon, the car got 25 mpg, excellent for the time.  A ten gallon fill up cost $1.80.  The fifty mile round trip required 2 fill ups a week, making the gas for my commute $3.60 for the week.
>
> My college tuition for a semester was $50, books cost $3-5 a pop, and I could get lunch in the college cafeteria for $1.25.
>
> I could take my date to dinner at a decent place plus a movie for $8.  Beer was $1.50 a six pack, or $1.10 if one was willing to brave the wrong side of the river (but that $0.40 mattered to me and my compadres of the time).
>
> Of course, I worked for $1.25 an hour refueling airplanes.
>
> mcneely
>
> ---- Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET> wrote:
> > I remember when I could drive to work all week for less then $13.00!
> >
> > Thanks, Tom Hargrave
> > www.stir-plate.com
> > www.towercooler.com
> > www.kegkits.com
> > www.grow-sun.com
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Rob
> > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 12:32 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Gasoline $$ :-(
> >
> > On the way home from work last night I stopped for gas, had $13 in my
> > wallet. That put 3 gallons in my bus @ $4.259 ea...
> > Sad times but still glad gas is available.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > becida@comcast.net
> > Western Washington State, USA
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> David McNeely
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