When I was young, there was a dollar movie theater in town, where you could view not-so-recent movies or rescreenings of Ishtar. I also recall going skating on Wednesdays for dollar skate night. But I am not old enough to recall paying a quarter and a dime for a movie. This I cannot fathom. How much was a Coke? A nickel?
I Don't Get It 
There’s still a dollar theater in a town not too far from here. I haven’t been there in a while, but the college students enjoy it.
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Oh I remember 25 cent movies at the Dream Theater. And pop was a nickel in a machine. A dime at the Drug Store. You kill me Lady. You are a Social Biographical Historian. Peace Out.
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Peace out. You are aging backwards like Benjamin Button. I want that.
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Some would call it senility. Later
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Yep, 5 cents if you drank your coke in the store and 7cents if you took it outside. But then when you were finished you could take the empty back in for the 2 cent refund.
Ruth from At Home on the Road
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I imagine it wasn’t 96 oz then?
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Nope, they were really small bottles. Maybe 8 or 10 oz. Not sure,that was a long long time ago.
Ruth from At Home on the Road
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never mind that the Poster claims the Movie playing has something to offend everybody! Lets GO!
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I saw that and couldn’t figure out what it was. !
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The poster says that the movie was “The Loved One.” Wikipedia describes it as “a 1965 black comedy film about the funeral business in Los Angeles, which is based on ‘The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy’, a short satirical novel by Evelyn Waugh.”
I can’t answer the question about Coke, but while talking last night with my 93-year-old father, he said that in the 1930s a hamburger cost 5 cents, and a haircut was 25 cents. And pennies were great for buying candy, like licorice sticks.
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