AMC Gremlin (Groovy)
Prices in 1977
(the year I headed off to college in my AMC gremlin, named Barney)
• Cost of a new home-$54,200.00
• Median Household Income-$13,572.00
• Cost of a first-class stamp-$0.13
• Cost of a gallon of regular gas-$0.62
• Cost of a dozen eggs-$0.82
• Cost of a gallon of Milk-$1.68
God I envy you had college in such days. but at the same time I'm content with the things we enjoy now too except for the high cost of everything,
ReplyDelete1977-
ReplyDeleteno personal computers
no computers to write papers
no cell phones
no i-pods
instead we had:
type writers
land lines-25 cents a minute for long distance
boom boxes