50 cents? Where do you live, 1978?
My sad airplane tale....as a 6 year old I bought one of those airplanes for about $15...it was 1955. Too young to fly it on my own I awaited my busy father's help. He became I'll and died. The plane sat on a shelf in the basement of my mother's house unmoved, untouched for 50 years. One day a few years back I determined I was going to fly that damned plane. Retrieved the box only to discover the plastic had disintegrated into hundreds of broken shards. All that was left was the engine supported by the wire struts. The plane that never flew......one thing worse than delayed gratification is gratification denied.
Alden 403 Moc Toe Boot - Brown Chromexcel - $680 The classic "Indy" style Alden Boot in the classic Horween brown Chromexcel. 
Grant Stone Diesel Boot Dark Olive Chromexcel - #395 Goodyear welted, Horween Chromexcel, classic good looks. 
Himel Bros. - The Ross Mk. 1 Leather Jacket Classic D-pocket motorcycle/aviator style jacket. 
There were three sizes of bottled Coke available in the mid-1950s -- the regular six-ounce bottle which cost anywhere from five to seven to ten cents depending on what your local bottler did, the "King Size" ten or twelve ounce bottle priced anywhere from ten cents to fifteen cents depending, again, on your bottler, and the twenty-eight ounce "Family Size," which usually cost around twenty cents to a quarter.
The introduction of other sizes than the regular 6 ounce bottle was a triumph of the bottlers over Coca-Cola headquarters, where company president Robert Woodruff had lived for decades under the slogan "one product, one package, one price." But the competition from Pepsi and RC, both of which emphasized their twelve-ounce bottles, and the increase in sugar prices after the war, forced the company to finally give in to bottler demands. That was the moment that set us on the course to where we are today with an endlessly brand-extended line of Coca-Cola products in an endless range of packages. Somewhere Robert Woodruff is reaching for an ice-cold six-ounce five-cent Coke, and saying "Glad it's not *my* problem."
It also depends on where you live. Or, more specifically, drive. Here in southern California the lowest toll I've found is $0.61 if you use FasTrak (our version of EZ Tag) and can be as expensive as $7.08 for a single toll on certain roads using the same device.
August 15, 1971
This is another perfect example of our collective gluttony in modern society. I remember the small 6 ounce bottles and Pepsi being sold in 10 or 12 ounce sizes. I also remember pint bottles from the grocery store being split with one of my siblings. Now if you purchase a fountain soda at a "convenience store" the small size is 32 ounces! I often buy a soda there and put it in a coffee cup. The clerks look at me like I've just arrived from another planet. What was a large soda at McDonalds is now a small.There were three sizes of bottled Coke available in the mid-1950s -- the regular six-ounce bottle which cost anywhere from five to seven to ten cents depending on what your local bottler did, the "King Size" ten or twelve ounce bottle priced anywhere from ten cents to fifteen cents depending, again, on your bottler, and the twenty-eight ounce "Family Size," which usually cost around twenty cents to a quarter.
The introduction of other sizes than the regular 6 ounce bottle was a triumph of the bottlers over Coca-Cola headquarters, where company president Robert Woodruff had lived for decades under the slogan "one product, one package, one price." But the competition from Pepsi and RC, both of which emphasized their twelve-ounce bottles, and the increase in sugar prices after the war, forced the company to finally give in to bottler demands. That was the moment that set us on the course to where we are today with an endlessly brand-extended line of Coca-Cola products in an endless range of packages. Somewhere Robert Woodruff is reaching for an ice-cold six-ounce five-cent Coke, and saying "Glad it's not *my* problem."
