I was laughing at how Louise and Florence was reacting to Marcus wanting George to give him $200. I almost spend $200 in Trader Joes last month. But I see that $200 back in 1977 was like almost a $1000 right now....$954


45 years ago. Guess it makes sense

I was laughing at how Louise and Florence was reacting to Marcus wanting George to give him $200. I almost spend $200 in Trader Joes last month. But I see that $200 back in 1977 was like almost a $1000 right now....$954


45 years ago. Guess it makes sense

It's like in the episode of All in the Family when Mike needed his appendix out, the surgery was only gonna be like 3 or 4 hundred dollars, and they were even acting like THAT was expensive!!!! Nowdays I don't think you can even get any surgery for less than $20,000

In the late 1970's, around this time or a bit later, I was in a supermarket with my mother and found a bill under a soda machine at the checkuout. I went to get it thinking it was a dollar and it was a $20 dollar bill! To an a 11 year old kid then this was a fortune, and it was, since that $20 was worth what $80 is worth now.

A lot of older shows will talk about money and we can look back then and laugh. Some examples, when James Evans on Good Times thought he got a job paying him a whopping $4 an hour, the family was so happy they threw a party.

On Mary Tyler Moore, Mary told Murray that Ted made $31,000 a year (in the early 1970's) and Murray was besides himself with jealousy.

Harris mentions on Barney Miller as a detective in New York (probably as a Sargent) he made something like $15,000 a year. In New York City, and made enough to afford to rent an apartment.

In an early episode of Columbo, he mentioned that he was making 11,000 a year (early 1970s).

In the late 1970's, around this time or a bit later, I was in a supermarket with my mother and found a bill under a soda machine at the checkuout. I went to get it thinking it was a dollar and it was a $20 dollar bill! To an a 11 year old kid then this was a fortune, and it was, since that $20 was worth what $80 is worth now.

A lot of older shows will talk about money and we can look back then and laugh. Some examples, when James Evans on Good Times thought he got a job paying him a whopping $4 an hour, the family was so happy they threw a party.

On Mary Tyler Moore, Mary told Murray that Ted made $31,000 a year (in the early 1970's) and Murray was besides himself with jealousy.

Harris mentions on Barney Miller as a detective in New York (probably as a Sargent) he made something like $15,000 a year. In New York City, and made enough to afford to rent an apartment.


In 1975 George was mad at Lionel for turning down a job that paid $20,000 a year. Today that would be like $110,000 today

In those days, my parent's mortgage was $62. monthly.

In 1978, my parents bought the house we were living in, they purchased it from the previous owner for a price of $47,000. Years later, both my parents passed on and I became owner of the house, I sold the house in 2012 and got $380,000 for it. The actual sale price was about $415,000, but there were some deductions at the closing and I ended up with $380,000 after the deductions.