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1. Wahlin Scott B

   
   7/11/2011 3:07 PM

   It seems to me that a 45 record cost about a dollar in 1970. Is that true?

   
   
   
   
2. Melvin Waldron

   

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   7/11/2011 6:07 PM

   I can't answer that but around 1979 and 1980 newly released cassette tapes were $5.99.
   
   Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO
   
   
3. Clay Putnam

   

   33 posts
   
   7/11/2011 7:07 PM

   wahlins said: It seems to me that a 45 record cost about a dollar in 1970. Is that true?

   
   
   That sounds about right. I remember as a kid in the early 70's collecting bottles to turn in for the deposit money. I would then ride my bike to the local TV store to buy a 45. If I remember right it took about 20 bottles at $.05 each to buy a record. Wish I still had those old 45s.

   
   
   
   
4. Wahlin Scott B

   
   7/11/2011 8:07 PM

   I guess I recollected correctly. Does it not seem incredible then that you can still by songs on the net for the same price? I understand that a 45 had two sides, but who cared about the reverse side anyway (unless it was the Beatles)? My brother is the historian of the family who still has the original "Hard Days Night" 45.

   
   
   
   
5. Larry Allan

   

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   7/12/2011 4:07 AM

   I was a LP guy. Screw those tiny pieces of wax. They didn't have the decency to put a proper hole in the middle. You had to buy those inserts that I always lost. Give me the big wax and make it "Meet The Monkees" 3.99 in the Woodbridge Smokeshop right next to the Woodbridge Hotel which I frequented once reaching the then drinking age of 18

   
   
   
   
6. Clay Putnam

   

   33 posts
   
   7/12/2011 6:07 AM

   wahlins said: I guess I recollected correctly. Does it not seem incredible then that you can still by songs on the net for the same price? I understand that a 45 had two sides, but who cared about the reverse side anyway (unless it was the Beatles)? My brother is the historian of the family who still has the original "Hard Days Night" 45.

   
   
   I guess I'm not that surprised. Remember when a 25" TV cost almost a $1,000? Competition and technology have a way of driving down prices.

   
   
   
   
7. Homme David R

   
   7/12/2011 12:07 PM

   Funny how the price of necessities goes up, while the cost of extras or optional items goes down.
   
   This explains all the unemployed folks I see walking around talking on cell phones.
   
   Goodbye middle class............
   
   Dave Homme
   Falls Resort

   
   
   
   
8. Keith Pegg

   

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   7/12/2011 3:07 PM

   45's were on the way out by the mid to late 60's, I remember buying a few seems like 10c to 25c in the mid 60's but we were all getting the big 33 1/3 at 1.99 to 4.99.
   
   Keith too old to remember

   
   
   
   
9. Jason Baker

   

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   7/13/2011 11:07 AM

   I was -2 in 1970.

   
   
   
   
10. Wahlin Scott B

    
    7/13/2011 3:07 PM

    keith8 said: 45's were on the way out by the mid to late 60's, I remember buying a few seems like 10c to 25c in the mid 60's but we were all getting the big 33 1/3 at 1.99 to 4.99.
    
    Keith too old to remember

    
    
    I probably bought most of mine in the 65 to 68 period. I thought they were about $1. You would always take a friend to get an Icee because one Icee was 11 cents and two were 21 cents with sales tax. (I am old enough to have worried about saving one penny? I am going to have to start checking out walkers at yard sales.)

    
    
    
    
11. Peter Bowman

    

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    7/13/2011 6:07 PM

    jasonbaker said: I was -2 in 1970.

    
    
    Jason,
    
    Ask your parents if they still have the mobile they made for you out of their Monkees 45s.