My First Car … an English Ford Anglia

  This isn’t my actual car.   I bought my car used for $500.00, but it was still sporty looking.    My car didn’t have a back seat and seemed shorter in length than this picture.   The two seats it did have were very low in the car … perfect for teenagers but I can’t imagine very [...]

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I Know a Jackass When I See One

These burros were across the road from a muddy field of big bulldozers and diggy vehicles by Gunlock Reservoir.   They have drained the reservoir and are cleaning out the sludge.    I don’t think the burros were part of the reservoir clean up but they seemed to have a regular job just the same.    There were [...]

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Puppy Love

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Well … better late than never …

I should have put this link in my earlier post but I just thought to look up the prices of food in the 1960′s.     You can see the price of foods for each decade after 1920 and will probably find yourself (like I did) spending more than a few minutes at this site.    The prices [...]

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Wages Then vs Now

  Like most young girls, my first income was from babysitting other people’s children.   A good wage for babysitting back then was 25 cents an hour.  That is a dollar for four hours!  Sometimes, it was less if the parents couldn’t scrounge together enough change.   Babysitting included but was not limited to: tending from one [...]

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