What is this world coming to?
I just got back from a trip to the Great North West. I visited my dad after 16 years of not traveling up his way. He's been down a few times and we've been in touch on the phone and on the internet....
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Dick A wrote:
i had a double scoop cone of Pecan Praline, for $2.50:B
$2.50 :h Back in the fifties we could get locally made hand-dipped ice cream for a nickle a scoop. Oh, also we had had a water cooled Coke machine that gave you an 8 oz bottle for a nickle.
Even considering normal inflation these products are very overpriced thise days. Few people pay much attention but rather just pull out the plastic. Its no wonder many of these things have become so expensive and the majority of the population is carrying considerable debt.
That $2.50 cent cone probably cost most of you $3.00.
Dick,
I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska in the 1950s and 1960s. The locally owned chain was; Goodrich Dairy stores. Their cones were two-dips for 0.10 cents during the '60s. Malts were 0.35 cents. Hot fudge sundaes were 0.45 cents. My Mother and Father owned two apartment buildings directly next to a Goodrich Dairy Store in midtown Omaha, Nebraska. The treat was for my Dad to buy me and my Brothers ice cream cones after doing hot Summer lawn work at our family's apartments before we drove home to our residence.
