Time Capsule - On This Day In History

[Donna D.]

For those that have the more vintage all molded towables, perhaps you'd like to see what was popular/what was happening when your trailer was built? Plug in any date and a year to see: dMarie Time Capsule

[carlkeigley]

The year I was born.................

1949 Prices
Bread $0.14/loaf
Milk: $0.84/gal
Eggs: $0.68/doz
Car: $1,650
Gas: $0.27/gal

House: $14,300
Stamp: $0.03/ea
Avg Income: $3,569/yr
Min Wage: $0.40/hr

[carlkeigley]

My wife's birthday.........


1953 Prices
Bread: $0.16/loaf
Milk: $0.94/gal
Eggs: $0.75/doz
Car: $1,850
Gas: $0.29/gal

House: $17,400
Stamp: $0.03/ea
Avg Income: $4,706/yr
Min Wage: $0.75/hr

[papa-t]

It's so cool to look back and see how things were then. OMG

[rgrugg]

The year I was born gas was $.19 per gallon and a stamp was $.03.

[Donna D.]

My trailer is a 1988, I see fuel was still under $1 a gallon:

1988 Prices
Bread: $0.61/loaf
Milk: $2.00/gal
Eggs: $1.13/doz
Car: $14,065
Gas: $0.96/gal
House: $138,300
Stamp: $0.25/ea
Avg Income: $38,608/yr
Min Wage: $3.35/hr
DOW Avg: 2,169

[carlkeigley]

Guess I overlooked the "year your trailer was built".........LOL

2013 Prices

everything is blank? haha

[Donna D.]

It's okay Carl, just have fun with it. Everything with year of trailer to birth year to maybe... wedding year?

[jerrybob]

I recently restored a 1895 Studebaker Stanhope Horse Drawn Buggy.....it originally sold for $30 with shafts. You could get yourself a good horse for about $15 to pull the buggy.

[_Scamp87_]

1987 Scamp 13 (1987 is our best guess)


I was a junior in high school.
I remember the gas station next to my dads house was the cheapest $0.68/gal
My grandparents (Mamaw and Papaw) were my best friends. They drove an old Maverick and we went to Shoney's to eat all the time on $10.
That's about all I remember.

[carlkeigley]

I graduated in 1967 from High School.
During one of those 4 years of HS, I found
a ten dollar bill in the parking lot. I carried
it quite a while to see if anyone claimed losing
one. I "feasted" for three weeks at the local
Dairy Diner when no one claimed it.

An ice cream cone about ten inches high above
the cone was 20¢. You had to have a quick licker
in the summer time.