Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:05:41 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:56:40 -0400, Sheldon Martin >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:23:27 -0400, jmcquown >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/27/2020 9:23 AM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:04:31 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 2:12:37 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>>>>>>> On 7/26/2020 10:34 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 3:26:06 PM UTC-10, wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 6:29:19 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I can afford to buy meat but don't like the idea of paying $30 to $40 for a hunk of meat. The last meat I bought was $6 for some ground pork.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've not seen any meat here that is $30 to $40 per pound but then again I
>>>>>>>>> don't look for meat priced that high. I did buy pork for carnitas this
>>>>>>>>> past week and it certainly was nowhere near that per pound.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My wife said that eggs on the mainland were going for $1.49/18. I bought some eggs the other day. They were $3.45/18. That was a major score because usually they're $5.49/18. I was quite pleased with myself.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At my local store here (Harris Teeter) a 30-count tray of eggs is only
>>>>>>> $1.99. Same price it's always been and always available.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Someone here told me that Walmart sells them even cheaper but I've never
>>>>>>> shopped at Walmart for groceries. Just for their other stuff.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My first trip to the mainland was to the San Francisco Bay Area.
>>>>>> I was quite impressed at how cheap food was.
>>>>>
>>>>> When? During the '60s Frisco was the least expensive place to live...
>>>>> was mostly salooons & bawdy houses left over from the gold rush days.
>>>>>
>>>> Uh... the "gold rush" in San Fransisco you speak of ended in 1855.
>>>> There have been a few upgrades to the city since then, not to mention an
>>>> earthquake that destroyed quite a lot. I guess you haven't priced real
>>>> estate in the Bay area lately. I watched an episode of 'House Hunters'
>>>> a few days ago. $1.5 million might get you a one bedroom/1 bath condo
>>>> in the Bay area these days. You'd need a budget of closer to $1.7
>>>> million to get 2 bedrooms. (When I say "condo" I'm talking about row
>>>> houses - maybe you can relate better if you imagine a row of Brooklyn
>>>> brownstones.)
>>>>
>>>> The last time I was in San Francisco (yep, it was 1969) Dad had been
>>>> transferred to Thailand. We ate at a Chinese restaurant the night
>>>> before we had to catch the flight. I'm pretty sure the food was dirt cheap.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> Prices in CA have undergone vast change since the '60s. I lived all
>>> over CA then working in the aircraft industry. Pay was very high in
>>> an attempt to draw skilled help from the east. My first job in CA was
>>> for Lockheed... Boeing and Lockheed were competing for the supersonic
>>> transport, in the end the French got it... the CA economy went under
>>> water.
>>> In 1961 the least expensive CA cities to live in were Frisco and
>>> Diego. After the French won the big contract I went to Diego to work
>>> for Hughs Tool, they were building heliocopters. During the year I
>>> worked for Lockheed my take home pay was $444.00 per week. We rented
>>> half a very nice 2 bedroom duplex in Monterey Park for $55/month. The
>>> following year in Diego we rented a lovely 3 bedroom stand alone house
>>> just north of the zoo for $60/month + $5 to rent a gas stove... at the
>>> time rentals didn't include a stove, could rent one from the landlord
>>> or use your own. At that time San Diego was the filthiest Navy town
>>> I've ever seen, wall to wall gin mills, tattoo parlors, and whore
>>> houses. I took the job at Hughs because the take home pay was $100 a
>>> week more than from Lockheed in Burbank so we rented way out of town
>>> by the zoo. My first week we lived in a hotel room in downtown Diego,
>>> $10 per week.
>>> The funny thing is that at that time Frisco was considered Southern
>>> Cal, the snobs hate to be reminded.
>>
>> In the 60s I could get 5 pounds of ground beef for $.99. Cans of soup
>> etc. were 6 or 10/$1.00 and halibut for $.19/#, What's your point?
>> Things have changed 60 years doncha know?
>> Janet US
>
> The point is that a lot of folks think CA was always expensive for
> living. The cost of living in CA was once dirt cheap nut then suddely
> rose steeply during the fuel shortage during the '70s. During the
> '60s I paid 10¢/gallon for premium in CA and got double Plaid stamps.
> A lot of people think certain restaurants were first to employ Hooters
> girls... not true... the most bodacious Hooters girls were pumping
> gas, checking oil, and cleaning windshields in skimpy bikinis in
> SoCal.
>

And ... being ***, yoose couldn't even enjoy them Popeye.