The Good Old Days (early sixties)

I remember that my old man got one for a thirty five dollar bid

 

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This is getting sketchy for me now. At some point during the sales they offered different sales tiers - coins starting at $3xxx, coins starting at $7x.xx and a higher priced tier and at some point a low end priced tier
for damaged and otherwise undesirable coins.

 

The prices of the GSA coins depended on which sale you are talking about and which group of coins you were bidding on. The Mixed Circulated catagory contained all of the obviously circulated coins including circulated CC coins. These were the coins in the softpacks. (For some reason a lot of the MS 78-CC dollars were sent out in these softpacks.) The Mixed Circulated catagory sold for $3 each.

The next cheapest catagory was the Mixed Uncirculated and Mixed CC group. These were the Uncirculated non-CC dollars and the CC dollars that were MS but which had been culled out of the Uncirculated group because of toning. (These come in the hardpacks labeled Uncirculated Silver Dollar, and Carson City Silver Dollar.) The Mixed Uncirculated may have been $7, the Mixed CC's were $15. Next were the 1882, 83, and 84 Uncirculated CC group. They were $30 apiece. Next were the 1881 and 1885 CC's I believe these were around $60 each. The final CC dollars had various higher minimum bids and these all sold for more than their minimum bids.

After all the sales in the 1970's there were still a bunch of 1882, 83, and 84 CC's left. These were put up for sale in 1980. Originally they were going to sold for I think $30 but the huge run up in silver in Jan and Feb of 1980 caused them to raise the Minimum bid about a month before the sale to $60. In the meantime silver CRASHED back down to $10 an oz. Under pressure at the last moment the minimum bid was reduced to $45 each. Unfortunately they also raised the maximum number you could bid on from 5 coins to 500. The number of submitted bids greatly exceeded the number of available coins. Rather than cutting down the number of coins awarded per bidder so that everyone could have some they simply filled the bids in the order they were received and most of the coins went to the big bidders and most bidders lost out. There were a lot of sore feelings over that sale.

 

1962 was when I got my driver's license and '64 I bought my first almost new car. '64 El Camino !! I collected in scouts until about '60 and hoarded change after that pulling silver whenever I cashed the coins in. Best one was the 1932 S Washington my grandpa gave me in '58. Told me they hadn't made many of those.

 

Conder, Thanks for the info on sale of CC morgans by GSA

I bought one ... an Uncirculated 1885-CC

I dont remember exactly when I bought it but it must have been in the late 1970's
And I cannot for the life of me remember how much I paid for it.

So your posting of $60 is helpful (if that's true, I got a good deal!)
(I have to say that sounds a bit low to me)

The coin is in my safe dep box, i really should get it out and take a photo.

This is a stock image of what the case looks like.

 

Yes, and check it for the VAM-4 "Doubled Dash". It's a "Hot 50" VAM and is valued at $1K in MS63, $1.5K in MS64 and $2.5K in MS65.

 

Thanks for the information on the GSA sales. I didn't buy any but I was interested and followed the sales. I do remember at first the sales were very unorganized and the government took a beating. And there were several sales after that. My brother may remember more because he bought some. But he was in and out of the country during those times so who knows.

What are (For some reason a lot of the MS 78-CC dollars were sent out in these softpacks.)?

After a couple of years lost to Peace Love and Eternal Cosmic Wisdom then sex drugs and rock n roll I'm surprised I remember those times at all.

"If you remember the sixities you weren't there" At least I think that's the quote

Beautiful 1885 CC.

 

'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'

'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.'All the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?''It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never woreLevis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only atSears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)We didn't have a television in our house until I was 16.It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a..m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people..
I was 16 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'Chef boy R Dee.'When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too.
I never had a telephone in my room.The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.Pizzas were not delivered to our home But milk was.All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers , six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at6AM every morning.On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?MEMORIES from a friend :My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.How many do you remember?Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.Air-conditioning was rolling down the car windows.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.Using a clothespin to clip a piece of cardboard to your bicycle wheel to make it sound like a motorcycle.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Older Than Dirt Quiz :Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.Ratings at the bottom.1. Blackjack chewing gum2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers7. Party lineson the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels...[if you were fortunate] )
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody14. Mickey Mouse Club15. 45 RPM records16. S &H greenstamps
17. Hi-fi's
18. Metal ice trays with lever19. Mimeograph paper20. Blue flashbulb
21. Packards
22. Roller skate keys
23. Cork popguns24. Drive-ins
25. Studebakers
26. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting olderIf you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the bestparts of my life.

Don't forget to pass this along!!Especially to all your really OLDfriends....​

 

thanks for the VAM tip, CPM ... will do!

Great Memories Post!

yes, we are all so old ... we all remember when you had to get up out of your chair to change the channel on the TV.

i am so old I remember (barely) my dad pulling out vacuum tubes from the back (inside) of our black and white TV and testing them in the "tube tester" machine at a local drug store and then buying replacement tubes when the machine said they were bad, whenever our tv would blink out (that was probably around 1961 or so).

that really does seem like an eon ago

one of my fondest memories was when we bought our first home air conditioner for our living room It must have been around 1964. A window unit that seemed to weigh about 300 lbs and needed a special 220V outlet. It was so magical that the whole family slept in the living room for several weeks (3 kids 2 adults) to enjoy the magical cool air in the middle of july

i remember that candy bars cost 5 cents

and i loved the little small (separate) triangular shaped windows in the cars (in the front) where you could direct air flow (I miss those)

if you wanted seat belts, you had to buy them and have them bolted to the floor. No cars had carpeting, but instead a funny plastic flooring where the dust and debris would fly up when you drove.

when you could open a car hood and identify all the parts (remember that!) ... and it was SPACIOUS!

coke machines that dispensed glass bottles (I miss the old 6.5 oz bottles) with the metal racks on the side for the empties ... and the little hole where you could pop off the top (no easy off caps)

and who can forget that horrible invention called "fizzies" ... tablets that you dropped into water to give it color, flavor and fizz (worst tasting stuff ever)

later they came out with TANG ... a really bad orange flavored powder ... not much better

 

Well according to cmp9balls test I'm older than dirt. I scored 20 out of 26. I missed out on 1, 8,9,10,13 and 14. But since when is 50 older than dirt?

 

It's not young'un. Neither is 61. I think if you can remember all that stuff, and be up in the good ol' age catagory, then you're doin' just fine. It's when you begin to forget things that it gets really scary......

 

I actually had a favorite "fast food" where I was growing up in the 60's. When Arby's started out (they started about 50 mile from my home), you would walk in and there would be a steam ship roast on the counter cooking under some heat lamps. The sandwiches made with their real beef were unbeatable. BTW, there were no friers of any kind allowed in their restaurants. The grease would make their restaurants too dirty.

 

Funny thing. When I used to "drive" for UPS I delivered to the original owner of Arby's. The guy made a killing selling the original idea.....

 

I also used to deliver to "Boomer" Esiason's Parents' house. Anybody remember that guy?

 

Yeah the quarter-back...

 

Here's what I do: While struggling to get to my computer desk, I just whip out a can of spinach and wolf it down. After the music stops, I'm good to go!

 

Terps QB.

Chris

 

Yes, mid 60's is when I first started collecting as well. Just pulled stuff from circulation and bank rolls. Myself and few friends were into coins. My Dad gave me some stuff from his Dad which was the premium stuff. I can remember going to the bank or store and getting a roll of dimes or quarters and pulling the silver (pre 64) ones out. Also finding Wheaties was pretty easy. My grandmother who was working at the time would give us silver dollars she would pull from the cash register at the department store she worked at.

As I got older and went to school all the coins went into by coin box and I basically left them alone for close to 30 years. Well recently I decided to get back into the hobby. It's amazing how bad I mistreated the coins back then. Lots of finger prints, etc. Fortunately I kept some of the good stuff in flips. Lately I have been replacing/upgrading all the coins with better condition coins. It's ironic. I keep all of the sets in Intercepts and have a coin inventory program. So when I buy a coin I record the date and where I bought it. The coins in my sets with no date or store location are obviously from my childhood. It's kind of sad, but most of the coins in my albums are from what I have recently bought. I almost could have started over two years ago when I got back in, to get where I am presently at, but me doing this as a kid is what always stayed in my blood.

I also have some Red books from the 60's. It kills me to see those prices. It's all relative though.

I wish I had the disposable income I now have back when I was 10

 

Well, I only missed one. Black Jack Chewing Gum must have been a regional thing because it wasn't around the MD suburbs of DC. I also remember the wash tub wringer well. My stupid brother was trying to keep a shirt from going through and he just would not let go as it pulled his arm in up to his elbow.

9. PF Flyers tennis shoes?

10. Butch wax for flattop haircuts.........not my style!

13. Buffalo Bob?

14. Who's the leader of the gang made for you and me.......M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E and The Adventures of Flip and Marty.

 

Our first family car with A/C was a 1960 Ford Galaxy 500. All of the kids in my 8th grade class wanted a ride home.