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Who Remembers When Cigarettes Were Only .33/Pack? | |
jackfoos  User ID: 75483061  United States08/30/2021 12:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That was back in the mid-70's and you had waaaay more brands to choose from, sold in vending machines that could be six feet wide: Benson & Hedges, Newport, Salem, Raleigh, MORE, Winston, Pall Mall, Kool, Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Eve, Tareyton, Lark, L&M, Camel, Maryland, Doral, Old Gold, Kent, Vantage, Viceroy, Winchester, Parliament, Real, Lucky Strike... Quoting: GSB/LTD ...it was like a smoker's Chinese buffet! Especially in airports and hospitals. Do you one better. Remember when they were 29 cents a pack and you could send a note with your 10 year old to allow him to buy them for you? In the 80s I was that kid. I was an awesome shoplifter too. My sister thought she was the craftiest bitch alive forging my mom's signature and letting us keep the 40-50 cents change. Get a jolt cola, cigarettes, with a box of chips ahoy in my waistband. They seemed surprised we were so eager to run that errand. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79256365 United States08/30/2021 12:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That was back in the mid-70's and you had waaaay more brands to choose from, sold in vending machines that could be six feet wide: Benson & Hedges, Newport, Salem, Raleigh, MORE, Winston, Pall Mall, Kool, Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Eve, Tareyton, Lark, L&M, Camel, Maryland, Doral, Old Gold, Kent, Vantage, Viceroy, Winchester, Parliament, Real, Lucky Strike... Quoting: GSB/LTD ...it was like a smoker's Chinese buffet! Especially in airports and hospitals. 25 cents a pack when I started in the mid-60's. Then again gasoline was between 19 and 24 cents a gallon as well. And if you filled up you got a piece of glassware... Raleigh cigarettes came with coupons and they had a catalog you could use to order gifts with the coupons you'd collected. Yeah: I recall both the fillup freebies and those Raleigh coupons - an idea that Marlboro ripped off later with their own catalog. The freebies weren't limited to gas stations, though... Banks and grocery stores both gave them away; Banks did radios, electric blankets, toasters, mixers and coffeemakers when you opened a new account and I got my first set of encyclopedias from an IGA foodstore! A dime for the first volume and .75/each for all the rest. Sets of classic books, cookbooks and even dictionaries and atlases were popular, too. But both banks and grocery stores got their start back in the 1930's when movie theaters would have "dish nights" where women could take a home a piece of decent china every time they plunked down their nickles, dimes and quarters. But with the price of a movie ticket today, they'd have to give you more than a cup & saucer! A cheap cellphone that would stop working in three days sounds about right. Yeah, my grandma used her Raleigh's coupons to order stuff. You don't see any of that today. I used to love going to the green stamp store with my mom and grandma. I remember my parents getting free dishware from the grocery store and that's also how I got my entire encyclopedia set. The local movie theater would have specials where you paid for your ticket with a certain amount of pop bottles. The roller skating rink would have penny Fridays. Each Friday, they would give a different year, and you got in for a penny as long as it was that year. My grandma would dig through all her pennies trying to find the right year so my cousins and I could go skating. |
| lin318 User ID: 80679789 United States08/30/2021 01:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That was back in the mid-70's and you had waaaay more brands to choose from, sold in vending machines that could be six feet wide: Benson & Hedges, Newport, Salem, Raleigh, MORE, Winston, Pall Mall, Kool, Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Eve, Tareyton, Lark, L&M, Camel, Maryland, Doral, Old Gold, Kent, Vantage, Viceroy, Winchester, Parliament, Real, Lucky Strike... Quoting: GSB/LTD ...it was like a smoker's Chinese buffet! Especially in airports and hospitals. 25 cents a pack when I started in the mid-60's. Then again gasoline was between 19 and 24 cents a gallon as well. And if you filled up you got a piece of glassware... Raleigh cigarettes came with coupons and they had a catalog you could use to order gifts with the coupons you'd collected. Yeah: I recall both the fillup freebies and those Raleigh coupons - an idea that Marlboro ripped off later with their own catalog. The freebies weren't limited to gas stations, though... Banks and grocery stores both gave them away; Banks did radios, electric blankets, toasters, mixers and coffeemakers when you opened a new account and I got my first set of encyclopedias from an IGA foodstore! A dime for the first volume and .75/each for all the rest. Sets of classic books, cookbooks and even dictionaries and atlases were popular, too. But both banks and grocery stores got their start back in the 1930's when movie theaters would have "dish nights" where women could take a home a piece of decent china every time they plunked down their nickles, dimes and quarters. But with the price of a movie ticket today, they'd have to give you more than a cup & saucer! A cheap cellphone that would stop working in three days sounds about right. Yeah, my grandma used her Raleigh's coupons to order stuff. You don't see any of that today. I used to love going to the green stamp store with my mom and grandma. I remember my parents getting free dishware from the grocery store and that's also how I got my entire encyclopedia set. The local movie theater would have specials where you paid for your ticket with a certain amount of pop bottles. The roller skating rink would have penny Fridays. Each Friday, they would give a different year, and you got in for a penny as long as it was that year. My grandma would dig through all her pennies trying to find the right year so my cousins and I could go skating. A lot of retailers would give TV (Top Value) stamps. My mom gave me a full set of china that she got with her TV stamp redemption. I still have them and have never used them. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79159550 United States08/30/2021 02:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That was back in the mid-70's and you had waaaay more brands to choose from, sold in vending machines that could be six feet wide: Benson & Hedges, Newport, Salem, Raleigh, MORE, Winston, Pall Mall, Kool, Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Eve, Tareyton, Lark, L&M, Camel, Maryland, Doral, Old Gold, Kent, Vantage, Viceroy, Winchester, Parliament, Real, Lucky Strike... Quoting: GSB/LTD ...it was like a smoker's Chinese buffet! Especially in airports and hospitals. 1978 - .75 1981-1983 - $1 1984-1987 - $1.25 1988-1990 - $1.35 1990-1994 - $1.55 1995-1997 - $1.85 1997-1999 - $2.25 2000-2001 - $2.55 I quit, went to snuff |
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