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Strategies & Market Trends : Ride the Tiger with CD
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To: Rocket Red who wrote (147838)2/22/2009 12:45:49 AM
From: E. Charters1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 312813
 
In the thirties if you had 5 bucks in your pocket you were well to do. My father owned a new car (a Hudson roadster) and had 15 dollars a week to spend. He was the life of the party. The difference between cars then and now? Once he missed a corner and hit a telephone pole at about 40 miles per hour. The pole was broken and fell. The car, said Hudson, had a small nick on the bumper. He drove it away.

In 1960 I paddle a canoe a mile to a marina where I could buy gas for the outboard, and an ice cream cone. I got two gallons of marine gas called white gas, those were imperial gallons of 160 fluid ounces CDN, for 72 cents. (2.402 US gallons) My brother and I would get two double scoop ice creams cones (neapolitan or vanilla) for 12 cents each. When we got back our parents would demand, where is the change? We would burp and smile. We were supposed to get single scoops which were 6 cents. Cokes were exorbitant at ten cents per 16 oz bottle, so that was verboten.

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