Richard Casady wrote:
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


Go check it your self , they're all over $6.00

http://www.dollartimes.com/calculators/inflation.htm
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
http://www.coinnews.net/tools/cpi-inflation-calculator/