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Message:: [QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 3299325, member: 19250"]One must also remember that this time peroid the introduction of credit cards,inflation, and the value of the dollar growing smaller.50 cents in the mid 60's got you two hambergers, two fries,and two milk shakes.So then the 50 cent piece more or less became obsetlete so to speak....As inflation grew,and one other factor....and think about this one" the repeal of the blue laws"!For those whom are unaware what the blue laws were....no commerce was allowed on Sundays. Stores were closed peroid! No malls, no super markets, nada nothing.... Sunday was for church and family...nothing else.Repeal the law and store have another day to sell.....the longer the store were open the more goods could be sold.More goods sold...more demand...the more demand the prices spiked to cover  cost of said goods. The more demand for goods...now Moms who once stayed home to raise the kids,now need to work to afford all the new goods available.And IMHO the begining of the decline of the family .As Sunday was again a day for church and family .You went after services to your grandparents home...you saw them and perhasp your aunt,uncle and cousins.As one of  the last of the baby boomers generation I can attest that durring the late 50's and most of the 1960's  that was life in America.[/QUOTE]