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   Bdaysuit said, 7 months ago

   When you were his age, they didn’t have dollars.
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   AshburnStadium said, 7 months ago

   Let’s bring this strip into the 21st century. Brutus, even though he looks 15 years older than my 48 years, is supposedly actually a year younger. When I was Wilberforce’s age, we were content with dollars. Wilberforce should be asking for twenty $1 bills!
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   prasrinivara said, 7 months ago

   When you were his age, $1 was a day’s pay AND sufficed for the petrol to fill your gas-tank.
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   Doctor Toon said, 7 months ago

   in 1975 I was 13 and made $5 working ten hours every Saturday for my dad
   

   
   I was rich, comic books were still only 25 cents
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   whmIII said, 7 months ago

   Inflation…
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   Perkycat said, 7 months ago

   Boy! You send them to school and …….
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   truecanadianliberal said, 7 months ago

   @prasrinivara

   North Americans refer to it as “gas” or “gazzz”.
   “Gas tank” is two words.
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   Elaine Poe said, 7 months ago

   It’s good to know that, as dim as Wilberforce has been portrayed in the past, at least he seems to have mastered his multiplication tables!
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   Bob said, 7 months ago

   in 1944 or 1945 Iwas making fifty cents an hour in a cannery. Both factory and field work. That was seasonal for most of us.
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    comicsssfan said, 7 months ago

    A candy bar is more than a dollar now, I think.
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    caller49 said, 7 months ago

    hmph, I remember when candy bars cost 25 cents and penny candy was actually 1 penny,
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    boldyuma said, 7 months ago

    1968..I still remember the farmer who came into dads gas-station complaining that gas had gone up a penny to 23cents,,lol..Another guy complained that soda pop went up a nickle from 5 cents to a dime..sigh…
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    Tigger said, 7 months ago

    Shrewd comeback
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    Tigger said, 7 months ago

    @boldyuma

    In the 1970’s my parents stopped smoking when cigarettes cold turkey went from 50¢ to 75¢
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    Bobzilla said, 7 months ago

    When you were his age a nickel would actually BUY something. Like a newspaper, phone call, candy bar, soda, moon pie, bag of chips, cigar, etc.
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