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In reply to the discussion: 1969 we had no cars, no computers, no phones, no money, no TVs...we had radios and our mouths and we [View all]LeftInTX
(25,103 posts)101. I remember them being 15 cents back in 64
By 74 they were 25 or 35 cents. (I was paying for my own back by then)
But I do remember the 15 cent thing....just didn't pay attention to any incremental price increases in between.
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1969 we had no cars, no computers, no phones, no money, no TVs...we had radios and our mouths and we [View all]
jodymarie aimee
Mar 2018
OP
Yes. Gestetner mimeograph and spirit duplicators... there were no copy machines
WheelWalker
Mar 2018
#3
Xerox machines were fairly common by '69, but they were usually in copy centers.
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#7
Yes, for a large number of copies, it was still preferable to cut a mimeograph stencil
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#62
The computer wasn't really mine, but I was one of a few people with access to a CDC 1700
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#59
No, I believe it was FORTRAN still for the 1620. It was a pretty limited machine. nt
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#112
Even in a Red State, I still hear Anti-War CCR like Fortunate Son on FM pretty often.
mr_lebowski
Mar 2018
#88
We didn't stop the war in 1969. We resisted it. It continued. Nixon was reelected in 1972
Tom Rinaldo
Mar 2018
#15
folks made $1.20 an hr then...our parents made $6Grand a year...yes 50cents a day for eats and happy
jodymarie aimee
Mar 2018
#49
In the '60s I kept a ledger of every cent I spent in college and the first years working
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#74
Around '64 a classmate lived on MacDonald's which were IIRC 15 cents for the standard gut bomb.
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#76
People did have cars. Tv, and money. Plus people were probably more likely to personally interact
JI7
Mar 2018
#23
Because the discussion is about the protesters, not 'the public at large' ... duh ...
mr_lebowski
Mar 2018
#89
I remember watching protests on TV. The difference is we didn't have 24 hr. cable.
pnwmom
Mar 2018
#96
There were large ads for it in the Village Voice, EVO, and other alternative papers.
SeattleVet
Mar 2018
#72
We didn't really stop a war. There were years of protests -- 50,000 deaths of American soldiers --
pnwmom
Mar 2018
#34
68 was the year I registered as a Democrat in order to vote for Gene McCarthy
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#56
I stand corrected. Even worse. The Democratic Party screwed up big time in '68
FarCenter
Mar 2018
#71
I took it to mean that it was *possible* to create and sustain a movement
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2018
#92