How Much Did It Cost 1960 Now

HERSHEY BAR

COST

1902 - 2 CENTS

1950 - 4 Cents, 1960 - 5 CENTS

1969 - 6 CENTS  1979 - 15 CENTS

1980 - 25 CENTS

2004 - 35 CENTS  ...   2019 - $1.00

In 1908, a Hershey candy bar cost just 2 cents. That's only 51 cents in 2016 dollars, if you adjust for inflation.

A Hershey bar today costs you three times as much -- $1.59 on Target's web site. (Thanks to Food Timeline and Oregon State University political science professor Robert Sahr for the data! Official government inflation numbers only go back to 1914!)

A box of Kellogg's  Corn Flakes was only 10 cents, 108 years ago. That's $2.56 in today's dollars. A 24-ounce box now costs $3.45 on Jet.com, the e-commerce site being bought by Walmart. So it looks like cocoa has been a hotter commodity than corn!

Baseball players also weren't making nearly as much money in 1908 as they are now.

An Average AMERICAN HOUSE

The average price of a home like this would have been about $3,845 with average wages being $1,970 annual Wages, or about two years annual wages to buy a house in 1930.

This same house would cost about $315,000 in 2019. Average annual income in 2019 is about $46,800 ... The price of an average price home cost about 6.7 years annual income in 2019, as opposed to 2 years average income in 1930, or 3 1/2 times more Expensive than in 1930.

Average Cost Of New Home Homes

1930 $3,845.00 , 1940 $3,920.00, 1950 $8,450.00 , 1960 $12,700.00 ,
1970 $23,450.00 , 1980 $68,700.00 , 1990 $123,000.00 , 2008 $238,880 , 2013 $289,500 , 

2019 $315,000

Average Wages

1930 $1,970.00 , 1940 $1,725.00, 1950 $3,210.00 , 1960 $5,315.00 ,

1970 $9,400.00 , 1980 $19,500.00 , 1990 $28,960.00 , 2008 $40,523 , 2012 $44,321 ,

Average annual Wages 2019 $46,800

Average Cost of New Car 

1930 $600.00 , 1940 $850.00, 1950 $1,510.00 , 1960 $2,600.00 ,

1970 $3,450.00 , 1980 $7,200.00 , 1990 $16,950.00 , 2008 $27,958 , 2013 $31,352 ,
Average Cost Gallon Of Gas
1930 10 cents , 1940 11 cents , 1950 18 cents , 1960 25 cents ,
1970 36 cents , 1980 $1.19 , 1990 $1.34 , 2009 $2.051 , 2013 $3.80 ,

1961 Chevy Impala

$2,600

2019 CHEVY IMPALA - Sticker Price $28,000

More than 10 TIMES More than 1961

Average Cost Loaf of Bread Food

1930 9 cents , 1940 10 cents , 1950 12 cents , 1960 22 cents ,
1970 25 cents , 1980 50 cents , 1990 70 cents , 2008 $2.79 , 2013 $1.98 ,
Average Cost 1lb Hamburger Meat
1930 12 cents , 1940 20 cents , 1950 30 cents , 1960 45 cents ,
1970 70 cents , 1980 99 cents , 1990 89 cents , 2009 $3.99 , 2013 $4.68 ,

A LOAF of BREAD COST just .22 CENTS in 1960

 And $4.68 in 2013, or 20 TIMES as Much as 1960

Some of the above can be explained due to the inflation over 80 years , but there are also many other reasons why some prices increased dramatically ( Housing Bubbles. Middle East Wars, Weather problems causing food price inflation, Population explosion, ) it also can work the other way due to improvements in technology offering much cheaper goods for example TV's, Calculators, Computers ETC.

MLB BASEBALL PLAYERS  Average Annual Salary 

2019  4. 6 MILLION DOLLARS, which is ridiculous and totally out of whack and the reason that it cost so much money to go to a Baseball Game these days, with the average price of a ticket is $53 to attend a MLB BAseball Game, with the highest price tickets, with premium box seats at Yankkee Stadium

 going for $525 per seat, up to $2,600 for front row seats. When I was a kid, and my brither Jimmy and I went to 8 or 10 Met games a year, the most expensive seat (box seats) cost just $6.00. Yankee tickets were basically the same price. This was back around 1972 to 1976 when we were going quite a bit to Shea and Yankee Stadiums.  

Hank Greenberg, left feilder, great Home Run Hitter for the Detroit Tigers. He was the first player to make $100,000 in 147 playing then for the Pittsburgh Pirates.  In 1938, he hit 58 home runs. Hank hit 331 career home runs.

BABE RUTH

"The GREATEST BASEBALL PLAYER of ALL-TIME"

For many people, and certainly for this guy, without question George Herman "Babe" Ruth was easily the greatest baseball player of all-time. Ruth hit 60 Home Runs in the 1927 MLB Season, and went on to hit 714 career home runs, most in major league history, and a record that stood until Hank Aaron broke Ruth all-time home run record years later.

After the 1927 baseball season, when a reporter bawled that Ruth made more money ($70,000 a year)  than the President of the United States, Ruth ansered "I Had a better Year than He did," which the reporter couldn't deny, with Ruth hitting a staggering, record setting 60 Home Runs, with a batting average of .356 and 164 RBI 's. His on Slugging Percentage that year was .772 with a .486 OBP.

Babe Ruth made $80,000 a year in 1930.

Babe Ruth had an astonishing lifetime batting average of .342 and hit 2,213 career RBIs.

Ruth was a starting pitcher for a little over 5 years before transitioning away from pitching and becoming an everyday player. His win loss record was a very impressive 95 Wins and 46 Lost, with an amazing 2.28 career ERA.

Players Salaries :

1958 - $16,353

1960 -  $17.934

1970 -  $29, 303

1975 -  $44,341

1980  -  $143,756

1985 -  $371,531

2000 - $1,895,000

2019  - 4.6 Million Dollars a Year "This is Insane" !!!

Mickey Mantle

1953 Topps BB Card

Mickey Mantle was a true Baseball Great. Yes Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees for 18 years from 1951 when he replace the great Joe DiMaggio in Center Field, until 1968. Mantle was considered The Greatest Switch Hitter in Major League Baseball History, with a lifetime batting average of .298, with 536 Home Runs, and a career 1,509 RBIs and 2,415 career Hits. "The Mick" as he was called, Won The Triple Crown for Batting in 1956 with 52 Home Runs, a Batting Average of .353 and 130 RBIs.

Mickey Mantle made $7,500 a year in 1951, and his salary in his final playing years was $125,000 per year. In 2019 the highest played MLB Players are making 30 Million Dollars or more (up to 37 Million, Max Scherzer). I myself am always talking about the absurd amounts of money that Professional Athletes make these days, "it's just Crazy," and I don't agree with it and I feel that many pro ball player are grossly over-paid and don't deserve money like that (anything over 15 Million is way too much)> I'm all for people making good money. What's wrong with making somewhere in-between 6 to 15 Million a Year? "Nothing I'd say. Hell, I'd be Happy just to make 1 million.

So as I've said many times, in comparison to the insane money these guys make today, 20 Million a year or more. If Mickey Mantle was playing today and Scherzer is making 37 Million a year, Mickey Mantle would have to command at least 60 Million Dollars a Year. And  in comparison, I'd have to give the great Babe Ruth "The Sultan of Swat" 95 Million a Year.

Basta !

1964 Ford Mustang

Price $2,368

1965 Ford Mustang Fastback

$2,639

A Cup of COFFEE at STARBUCKS

1968 just 15 CENTS

2019 $2.10

COLLEGE TUITION

A GALLON of GAS

A HOUSE

TV 

BEST DEAL of ALL

In Comparison to how much Money people made in 1968

and what they make in 2019, it's far cheaper to buy a TV now, than it was in 1968

The only other thing I can think of that has gotten cheaper, is the price of a Long Distance Telephone Call.

One problem. Most people pay insane amounts of money to watch TV (Cable) these days, with average cable bills at $50 a month, as compare to being FREE in 1968.

Actually, you can get a pair of Wrangler Jeans for about $25

Even LESS

So let's say the average price in 2019 is about $29

Champagne and a Movie Scorsese RagingBull

 

Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts (L)

The POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE

How to watch a movie? You go to the cinema or pop something on at home, no? Yes that one way. You can watch a movie and maybe it's good and maybe it's not. You got to a movie theater? Well not so much today, with Netflix, Cable TV, streaming, or picking out a Video (yes some still have them), or DVD from your home collection. Nowadays there are many ways to see a movie. There's the old fashion way of going to the cinema, paying money and seeing the latest movie of your choice. That was fun, and it was an event, a night out, and much more affordable than today. "Isn't everything?" Well yeah, most things are a lot more expensive than they were in years past, and somethings not. Candy bars for example are about 20 times more than they were when I was a kid. WHen I first started buying candy bars (Hershey Bar etc.) they were only 5 Cents. And guess what? They were only 5 Cents when my father was a boy, 30 years before. In 30 years, the price of a candy bar (all candy) hadn't gone up at all. When I first started buying Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Hershey Bars, Almond Joys and such, they where just 5 cents, a Nickel a piece. Then they started going up, a nickel at a time, until they got to the point they are now, between 1 Dollar and a Buck 25 depending on where you buy one. That's as muc as 25 times increase since I was a boy. The average workers weekly income has gone up only 2 1/2 to 3 times since then, yet a Hershey Bar has gone up 20 times or more. A home has gone up close to 20 times as well, yet the price of long distance phone calls have decreased 20 times. What's a person to do. The price of a movie ticket? Yes it's gone up about 25 times since I started paying for my own movie ticket 50 years gone buy at the Rivoli Theater in Rutherford, New Jersey when it was just .75 for for a "Double Feature," two movies with Cartoons in between. No more Double Features, no more cartoons, doesn't exist. And boy did I Love, and did I have oh so much fun and fantasy, seeing all those great movies as a boy, back in 1960s America, it was just great, it was a "Wonderland," the movies and movie houses of yor.

Well, again, I've gone way off the track again. Were'nt we talking about how to watch a movie? Yep. Now watching a movie in your normal way, and watching a movie with my winemaker cousin Joseph Macari Jr. of the North Fork of Long Island, New York is a whole other story. First off, you're got to have a great movie. A movie with great actors and a great director always helps. When Joe and I would be watching movies, most of them would tend to be what you'd call guy films, such as Mob Movies made by the likes of Italian-American Directors Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Movies like the Godfather I and II, Goodfellas, Casino, and Raging Bull.  The Pope of Greenwich Village by Vincent Partrick, and starring Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts is one of our all-time favorites, as is State of Greace about the Irish Mafia of Hell's Kitchen , New York, and which Gary Oldman turned in one hell of an incredible performance, playing Irish Mob Boss (Ed Harris) crazy brother, Irish Mob Soldier.

So we'd pick a movie, get it ready, then Joe would go down into his wine cellar and grab an amazing bottle of Champagne. And I'm not talking about  Vueve Cliquot (Orange Label) or MOET - White Star, I'm talking some really serious Champagne, "The Best of The Best." Joe came back that night with a bottle of BILLECART - SALMON Rose. "Wow!" Well I never had this Champagne before, I'd never even heard of it. Joe popped the cork and poured me a glass. We toasted, and then I took my first sip. Again, "Wow," It was absolutely amazing. And I was in love. Yes I do love that Champagne, Billecart - Salmon Rose. It is so very delicious, and some have said, the Brut Rose Champagne produced by the Champagne House of Billecart - Salmon is a reference point as to how a great French Rose Champagne should taste, and that's absolutely marvelous. And it should "Blow Your Mind" so to speak as that wine did for my that night, way back in the Fall of the year 2000. Yes Billecart Rose, as we call it, has to be my number 1 al-time favorite of all the great CHampagnes of France. And I've had many great champagnes, and ones that are far more expensive, and some might think better, than the Rose of Billecart Salmon, but not me. It was that special night, hanging out with my cousin Joe, watching Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts in The Pope of Greenwich Village, enjoying the film, laughing, talking about it, and savoring that fine Champagne. 

   

Billecart - Salmon

Brut Rose

The champagnes of Maison Billecart-Salmon are above all created thanks to the knowledge of the men who rigorously cultivate an estate of 100 hectares, obtaining grapes from an area totaling 300 hectares across 40 crus of the Champagne region.

The majority of the grapes used for vinification come from a radius of 20km around Epernay, where the Grand Crus of Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier and Chardonnay co-exist, in the ethereal vineyards of the Montagne de Reims, the Vallée de la Marne and the Côte des Blancs.

Yes, we do love our Champagne, we're music lover, gourmands, and film buffs, and we combine these interests into some very sepcial times. Over the years we watched Man on Fire with Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, The Silence of The Lambs and other great movies. And we drank wines like Solaia, Tiganello, Taittinger's Comtes di Champagne and other great wines, and vintage Champagne. Our, and by the way, I haven't completely set the scene. When Joe and I watched these movies and drank Champagne, it was after the whole family, after a long day at Macari Vineyards, we'd all have a nice dinner together. We cooked, ate, chatted, and drank some nice wine with dinner. Then, as everyone was quite tired and would retire to bed, Joe and I would get our movie, an awesome bottle of Champagne, and we'd dig in. Dig into a classic film and some Vintage Champagne.

"Now that my friends, is How You Watch a Movie. Wouldn't you agree?" Basta !  

Me & Cousin Joe

Drinking Prosecco in VENICE

 

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James Caan, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and John Cazale

As The CORELONE FAMILY

Sonny, Don Vito, Michael, and Freddo

In FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S The GODFATHER

"Joe and I drank "MILLE Una NOTTE" from our friends The RALLO FAMILY of DONNAFUGATA , Marsala, SICILY when we watched this one. We had to, great Sicilian Wine and a Sicilian Family, The CORLEONES of Corleone, Sicilia ...

 

Gary Oldman

STATE of GRACE

Wine Pairing ?

IRISH WHISKEY of Course !

TULLAMORE DEW

 

PULP FICTION

Our Wine Pairing ?

RUINART BLANC di BLANC

 

RUINART

BLANC de BLANCS

Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) would approve of the Champagne selection, "I'm sure."

For me, Pulp Fiction was an absolute Masterpiece, and easily director Quentin Tarrantino's greatest film. I really liked Tarrantino's first film Resevoir Dogs, but not nearly as much as Pulp Fiction, which is in my Top 10 Films. 

John Travolta, Ving Raimes, Eric Stolz, Harvey Keitel, and Samuel L. Jackson were awesome in the film, as was Uma.

The screenplay by Tarrantio and Roger Avery was the base of this great film. I'm still waiting for tarrantino to make at least one more great film, but just for this masterpiece alone, for me he's a genius. And I love another screenplay that Tarrantino wrote, but didn't direct the movie. And that would be the movie True Romance, directed by the late great Tony Scott (RIP).

 

Robert DeNiro as JAKE LaMOTTA

In Martin Scorsese 's RAGING BULL

Wine Pairing ?

 

KRUG

Grande Cuvee

Raging Bull, another great film classic from director Martin Scorsese. KRUG Grande Cuvee, what can you say, "This Champagne is Amazing!" It's KRUG after all?

 

Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper

TONY SCOTT'S "TRUE ROMANCE"

As Vincenzo Cocotti and Cliff Worley

WINE PAIRING for TRUE ROMANCE ?

POL ROGER "SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL"

 

POL ROGER - SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

 

"Dam I Love this Champagne!" What's not to Love? Pol Roger- Sir Winston Churchill is one of the Best Champagne's money can buy, "you just can't get any better." Full of those yeasty bready Brioche flavors that I love in fine Vintage Champagne. And the movie True Romance, what can I say? Dam, I just flipped for this film the first time I saw it. And seeing this movie and Christian Slater's awesome performance as Clarence Worly, just blew my mind, and I finally gained respect for Christian's acting abilities. I've know Christian since he was about 10 years old, and his mother, powerhouse Casting Director Mary Jo Slater used to bring him to a restaurant I worked in long ago (the 1980s).

This film was awesome from beginning to end, and is one of Quentin Tarrantino's greatest works. he wrote the screenplay, but didn't make the movie, which was directed by Tony Scott. The movie is filled with one awesome ensemble cast which includes: the stars Slater and Patricia Arquette (ALabama), along with cameos by Dennis Hopper (Slater's father), Christopher Walkin as Mob Boss Vincenzo Cocotti, Brad Pitt as Michael Rappaport's "Stoner Friend," Val Kilmer plays ELVIS PRESLEY, Gary Oldman is aboslutely Electrifying as wannabe Rastafarian Drug Dealer / Pimp called Drexl.

Anyway, I love the movie, and was oh so happy to turn Joe on to it. He had never seen it before, and he abolutely loved it. We had a great time watching it together, and The Sir Winston Chruchill Champagne did not hurt at all. "It was incredible!"

to be Continued .... 

I will add to my reviews of both the Movies, Actors, and Champagne's at a later date. Hope you all enjoy this for now. So until the next great movie, and the next great French Champagne. As Arnold would say, "Hasta la Vista Baby!"

Puerto Rican Stewed Red Beans

STEWED RED BEANS

PUERTO RICAN STYLE

RECIPE :

• 1 pound dried red kidney beans, rinsed, soaked in water overnight
• water to cover beans as they stew
• 1 small onion, peeled
• 6 tablespoons good olive oil, divided
• 1 pound calabaza (Caribbean pumpkin), peeled and cut into 1 inch cubes or 2 red boiling potatoes, peeled and cubed
• 7 ounces of Goya Frozen Sofrito (defrosted), or other Sofrito of your choice
• 1 6-ounce can tomato paste
• 5 or 6 Garlic cloves, minced
• 1 packet Sazon Goya
• 5 or 6 Cilantro leaves, finely chopped or a bunch of cilantro finely chopped
• Salt to taste

Put olive oil and onions in a large pot. Cook on low heat for 6 minutes. Add garlic and cook on low heat for 2 minutes, as you stir.

Add rinsed Kidney Beans to pot and fill with water, covering the beans by 1 inch.

Bring to the boil, then lower to a steady simmer, and cook for 1 hour.

Add remaining ingredients to pot, and continue cooking until the beans are getting tender, but still slightly firm.

Serve with cooked Yellow or White Rice.

Enjoy!

LUIS GUZMAN

Lower East Side New Yoork Puerto Rican

"Ah Papi" !!!

4 Dumplings for a DOLLAR No More

A little bit of Serendipity on the Lower East Side of Manhattan yesterday. I needed to buy a few items down on Eldridge Street yesterday. This wasn't my only reason for jumping on the F Train at West 4th Street near my apartment. No I usually try to couple things together, and my reason for picking that particular store I was going to, was that it was just a block away from favorite Dollar Dumpling Joint, "Prosperity Dumpling" on Eldridge, 2 blocks North of Canal Street.

I hadn't been down there in a few months and I was jsut dying for some of those tasty Dumplings, and especially at just a Buck a Pop per order. Without a doubt, thee Greatest Food Value per for your money in the whole of New York City, hell, maybe even the country. And I've been extolling these virtues for several years now, and was the first to report on Prosperity on Eldrige while everyone else was just riding the #1 Dumpling - Vanessa Dumpling Band-Wagon.

I discovered Prosperity Dumpling one early evening about 3 1/2 years ago after strolling around a bit after my haircut from the Chinese ladies on Eldridge. It was Love at First Bite, and has been Luv ever since.

So last night I hop on the F Train. At first I was planning on getting off at the East Broadway stop, but at Delancy & Essex I jump off the train there. Figured I'd take a little extra walk and exploration before heading over to Prosperity, but then I was walking on Clinton, checking things out, and what do I stumble upon? Prosperity Dumpling! Wow, I couldn't believe it. They opened a branch on Clinton Street. Awesome.

Well, I continued walking around a bit. Exploring. Then decided to have my Dumplings at the new joint instead of the original down on Eldridge. I ordered a order. Just one order, I figured i walk down to the store, then have another order down on Eldridge. Got them. They were Yummy of course, and I needed more. I order wasn't enough, so ordered 4 more.

They hit the spot, and the second order did the trick. I had my fill, and just for Two Bucks. Yes $2.00 for two orders of tasty home-made Pork Dumplings. You can't beat that with a stick.

Just one problem. People at Prosperity Dumpling, when are you gonna open a shop in the West Village, somewhere near Houston and McDougal Streets? Please? We need One!

by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

PROSPERITY DUMPLING

4 FOR A DOLLAR

A THING of BEAUTY