Y'all must've had high tobacco taxes in Minneapolis. I was able to buy premium brands Camel, Marlboro - for $1.50-$1.75 in 1989 in Denver. And GPCs were 89 cents a pack in many places.
And the liquor store near my first house in Englewood, CO sold loosies into the late 1990s. I think they were a quarter and there was a variety of brands in the glass. I think it was a heavy bottomed rocks glass but I can't remember for sure.
You were a frikkin zygote in 1984. :) Actually you're right - I went and checked and 90 cents seems to be about the going price. In my defense I was smoking roll-your-own's at the time (see the beginning of the Canadian hitchhike memoir). But I'll go back and change the math in the post so as to be accurate.
No need to change it - it's 40 year old memory and memory is faulty. It just seemed expensive. Being unable to scrape up a buck or two for a pack of cigarettes just illustrates how tough things can be for some people.
And I was a whole 13 years old in 1984. Not in utero...
Y'all must've had high tobacco taxes in Minneapolis. I was able to buy premium brands Camel, Marlboro - for $1.50-$1.75 in 1989 in Denver. And GPCs were 89 cents a pack in many places.
And the liquor store near my first house in Englewood, CO sold loosies into the late 1990s. I think they were a quarter and there was a variety of brands in the glass. I think it was a heavy bottomed rocks glass but I can't remember for sure.
You were a frikkin zygote in 1984. :) Actually you're right - I went and checked and 90 cents seems to be about the going price. In my defense I was smoking roll-your-own's at the time (see the beginning of the Canadian hitchhike memoir). But I'll go back and change the math in the post so as to be accurate.
No need to change it - it's 40 year old memory and memory is faulty. It just seemed expensive. Being unable to scrape up a buck or two for a pack of cigarettes just illustrates how tough things can be for some people.
And I was a whole 13 years old in 1984. Not in utero...