On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:12:16 -0400, Balanced View
wrote:

$1.00 in 1964 had about the same buying power as
$6.83 2008.

You are totally nuts. A gallon of gas, a magazine, a paperback, a pack
of cigs, a six pack, were all a quarter in 1964. A .Colt 1911 .45
pistol was $62.50. Levi's were $2.25.

Casady