I noticed when TRAVIS went to watch the 1st PORN, he got like 6 packs of CANDY, a SODA, and a BOX of POPCORN for under $2.00 Now I must admit, even for 1975/76 that's SUPER CHEAP. If it were today, those items would be at least $20 at the CONCESSION STAND.
shareAdjusted for inflation, he probably spent around $10-$15.
Still, much cheaper than today. And with all that food and a movie, those are some good times.
That part always kills me, good one! I remember thinking it was somehow cheaper because it was a porno movie. My wife (then girlfriend) used to be able to see a movie, sodas and bon-bons for a total of $15.00. My son took me for Father's day to a noon show, it cost him $20.00 for two tickets, maybe $20.00 for popcorn & sodas and I bought him a drink for as he just turned 21 ($10.00 plus a $2.00 tip). Travis would freak.
shareWhat about Easy Iris charging $20 bucks for 15 minutes of pleasure? Hell, $30 for a half-hour was an even better deal. Now those were the days!
shareAnyone else find it weird they're selling food at a porno theatre. Like surely if you're going for that sort of thing you aren't going to want a bag of sweets.
shareThat's the government robbing you blind via inflation.
shareInflation hasn't gone from $2 to $10-15. The low-grade theater was likely lower=priced than others
shareInflation has skyrocketed through the roof and movie prices are a good example. Overheads, like rent and utilities being the biggest culprits. It would also depend on where one goes to see a movie and where one lives. I recall an adult ticket price being around $1.50 in the mid 70's, the average price is now around $18.00 or even more depending on the cinema or presentation. I find the bigger corporate chains are the ones that fleece and about twice as much as the independents. That's 100% more inflated, just by today's prices.
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It has.
$1.85 in 1976 dollars would be $10.23 in 2024.
More actually, because today’s inflation gauge does not include all the consumer items it did back then.
Wasn't he disappointed as they did not have Juju beans, which "lasted longer" ?
I though the exact same thing.
Taking in consideration that in my country a small Coca Cola and medium box of popcorn you pay something like 12 EUR, not taking in consideration the the ticket price that is 6,50 EUR.
And our minimum wage is 505 EUR, that's why cinemas are empty.
Travis said he could take 300$ a week, that is 1200$ at the end of the month.
Exactly. In most European countries prices are as you mentioned (ever more expencive where I live though), and an average salary is around 500 - 600 EUR a month. Of course it varies a lot between the countries, but that stands for most of them, especially south and eastern ones.
1200 USD (1000 EUR) a month is an above average salary ever for today's european standards. And the prices are 10 times higher.
I'm gonna move to USA, living here sucks
No, you shouldn't move to USA for obvious reasons, they suck - a lot.
Also you pay a lot for those products because they are all American company's, like MacDonald is expensive, they should block American company's in Europe like Trump want's to do on China.
Think about this: How much do you pay on a regular restaurant in your country? I'm sure is not as expensive, at least in my country is cheap because the products are all nacional.
Block USA, is the solution.
Unfortunatelly, McDonalds is still one of the cheapest restaurants where I live, and it is more expencive than it is in USA (I checked their prices).
I can give you exact prices, if you wish.
Eating one standard meal for one person (of course without drink, salad, or similar) in an unexpencive restaurant, or a large pizza, costs about 9-10 euros.
So eating out, concidering, your gonna order a drink, and something extra (a salad, or a desert) in an ordinary restaurant usually costs you about 20 euros for one person. Not many people can afford it.
Official minimum wage here is 570 eur. But you have to concider that minimum wage here doesn't really mean mimimum wage, it's actually a standard salary, many people have bellow that, for a full time job (don't ask me how that's possible, it just is).
Renting a small 2 room apartment (100m2) costs about 1.000 eur+expances. So it's literally impossible to rent it, with practically any job.
So most people live in their parents home, even in their 30s and 40s.
Other live in a rented room, which still costs 1/3 of an average salary.
Gas costs 1.6 EUR a litter. So a full tank is about 60 EUR. So with an average salary, you can but less than 10 tanks of gas, if you would not pay for rent, food, clothes, electricity, or anything else.
So yes, it still sucks. And I'm aware that americanism (capitalism) made it this way, when we were still communists (30 years ago), living standard was at least 10 times higher, plus there was much less crime, unemployement and poverty.
according to this site http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
If in
1975
I purchased an item for $
1.85
then in
2016
that same item would cost:
8.28
On one of the Blu-ray extras, DP Michael Balhaus says that at the time in and around Times Square, ticket prices were less than a dollar, and you could get a beer and a couple of hamburgers for about a dollar fifty.
You could spend all day watching movies and get fed for less than five dollars!
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So how much do 12 year old prostitutes charge for their services these days?
shareMy inflation calculator just said that the $350/wk he quotes in a letter had the purchasing power of almost $1,500 in 2016.
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Back in 1981 when I first started going out on dates, I was able to take a girl out and eat at a restaurant like Bennigan's or TGIF or JoJo and then go to a movie with popcorn and drinks, all that for $20.
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