Times are changing

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Arnold

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I just received the January issue of Bay & Delta Yachtsman and, for the first time in many years, there is no ad by Marine Max. They must be trying to save money.
 
There used to be alot of ads at the end of the magazine - everything from real estate to boats to this, that and the other thing. That all seems to be cut way back. I was just on the Yachtsman website. Unless I missed the link, I couldn't find any online copies of the magazine. Tough economy.
 
Yes, time are a changing. I can remember crossing the San Mateo/Hayward bridge was....25 cents (1 quater).....!
 
Not exactly boat oriented, but I started smoking at $.50 a pack. Quit at $1.50 a pack.
 
I remember back in 1978, somebody I knew had trouble selling a Hemi Challenger for ..... $3,500.
 
I remember cigarettes in vending machines for 23 cents...you put in a quarter and the 2 cents change was under the cellophane wrapper!
 
I remember, in 1965 I bought my first car a VW-bug new from the VW dealer in San Carlos. It cost $1250 out the door. I worked a summer job in a machine shop for $1.25/hr
 
Out of college in 1968 started work at $425 per month. I told my wife if we ever made 12,000 per year we would be rich.
 
Another Toy - San Carlos - I grew up there - on the Alameda! SC High, class of 68. Bought my first boat when I was about 16 - it was a 16' wooden hull outboard, and we proceded to convert it into a "Cracker Box", sort of. We built 2x12 stringers, with redwood, glassed the hell out of the hull, dropped a small block corvette engine in the middle, direct drive with no transmission - the prop shaft was connected to the engine! The seat was at the transom, and luckily, never put it in the water! I also put a small block in a bug-eye sprite...
It's a small world...
Jim
 
Remember betting my mom, think in the very early 70s, that there was no way she'd quit smoking when cigs hit $5.00 a carton. Was the easiest $20 I ever won. Really wished she won that bet since the cigs got the best of her in 1992.
 
Comfortably Numb - I grew up in San Mateo (Hillsdale H.S. class of 67), my first boat was a "D" outboard hydro, second boat was Sanger flat bottom w/big block chevy. Today-Someone down the street from me has a restored "bug-eyed" sprite. When I was in High School, one of my friend had a Buick in his "bug-eyed" sprite, I never got a ride in it though.
 
And I remember a political activist in 1972 saying that there will never be a black man in the White House. To which my father retorted, "The American people will elect a black man president when a black man is the best candidate".
 
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