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GENERAL DISCUSSIONS! => Anything Goes! => Topic started by: Patricia Lotte on December 28, 2009, 08:26:40 AM

Title: A blast from the past - Bon appetit ...
Post by: Patricia Lotte on December 28, 2009, 08:26:40 AM
Those were the good days ...
Title: Re: A blast from the past - Bon appetit ...
Post by: SandyB on December 28, 2009, 04:43:24 PM
Mmm the prices  .. and yes  it was  real food . not plastic ... although Mac Donalds rates top of the plastic  food  scale ....
Title: Re: A blast from the past - Bon appetit ...
Post by: Ricky Barron (RIP) on December 29, 2009, 07:08:49 AM
On the same subject.....I happened to be at the opening of the first Spur Restaurant (The Golden Spur in Newlands) when a Spur burger, chips, onion rings and all the trimmings set me back a whopping 40c. This was circa 1967 when pocket money at boarding school was about R10.00 a term!
Title: Re: A blast from the past - Bon appetit ...
Post by: Patricia Lotte on December 29, 2009, 10:16:58 AM
... and a packet of Simba chips only cots 7c ...
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Post by: Stevie on December 29, 2009, 11:34:33 AM
You   got  two  Wilsons Toffees   for  5 cents .
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Post by: Rhona on December 29, 2009, 03:33:35 PM
And the bioscope on a Saturday afternoon for 15c............I used to get 35c pocket money  :ciupa1:
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Post by: georg ruf jr. on December 29, 2009, 11:28:15 PM
I even remember 8 or 10 cents for the movies.
Unbelievable how inflation grows....
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