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Some of it is just relative.  When the mastodons (we didn't worry about them; it was the saber tooth that could mess you up) and I roamed campus, gas was $.19/gallon, as was hamburger, mock chicken was a real thing because real chicken was more expensive, a bottle of Jack Daniels cost $4.75 (Black Label, not that cheap Green Label stuff) and Coquilles St. Jacques cost $2.75 at L'Ommies.  When our son was born 5 years later I had to get a student loan to cover the uninsured portion of the hospital and doctor costs.  $600.00.  Upon GSB graduation a friend of mine bought a 3 BR in Palo Alto, and my uncle built a 2000 SF home on an acres of apricots in Los Altos Hills for $60,000.  It was on Mandoli  Lane; you could look it up.  Same lot,  VERY different house nowadays.  My best job offer with an MBA was $16,000 plus a car; P&G offered me $12, and Target/Federated Dept. Stores offered $10.8.  Of course we still had to walk through 10 foot snow drifts to collect the mail.

I guess global warming is worse than I thought.  Or maybe this was during the last ice age.

BC

[BostonCard]

Some of it is just relative.  When the mastodons (we didn't worry about them; it was the saber tooth that could mess you up) and I roamed campus, gas was $.19/gallon, as was hamburger, mock chicken was a real thing because real chicken was more expensive, a bottle of Jack Daniels cost $4.75 (Black Label, not that cheap Green Label stuff) and Coquilles St. Jacques cost $2.75 at L'Ommies.  When our son was born 5 years later I had to get a student loan to cover the uninsured portion of the hospital and doctor costs.  $600.00.  Upon GSB graduation a friend of mine bought a 3 BR in Palo Alto, and my uncle built a 2000 SF home on an acres of apricots in Los Altos Hills for $60,000.  It was on Mandoli  Lane; you could look it up.  Same lot,  VERY different house nowadays.  My best job offer with an MBA was $16,000 plus a car; P&G offered me $12, and Target/Federated Dept. Stores offered $10.8.  Of course we still had to walk through 10 foot snow drifts to collect the mail.

I guess global warming is worse than I thought.  Or maybe this was during the last ice age.

BC