re: Pictures from days gone by....

Armour’s Food Source Map: The Greatness of the United States is Founded on Agriculture (1922)

- How to Be a Lady, Containing Useful Hints on the Formation of Character by Harvey Newcomb (1850)

I saw one of these in the '90s, in a Sears store

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But folks were making a whole lot less money back then and those prices were out of reach for most working people j

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I started my first real job as a young teen in the mid 60's and the prevailing minimum wage was $1.25 an hour. At the time I figured it I could find a job making $400 a month I'd be living pretty high on the hog but that meant I'd have to be making $2.50 an hour and that was out of reach for a youngster at the time.

I can remember going to the local Western Auto store and drooling over their selection of Western Flyer bikes on their showroom floor. A nice 26 in. boy's bike with shiny new paint and lots of chrome were selling for $40 and the fancy "English Racers" as the multiple speed bikes were called back then were about $75 IIRC.

3, 6, 2, 4, 5, 1

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and now you know the rest of the story….

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I loved listening to Paul Harvey on the radio and his many interesting stories he told.

This needs to be played nationwide. The only thing he neglected to mention was, make abortion fashionable and easy to get.