Memories of the 70s for "Gen Y"

[BrilloPad]

The UK gloating in post war nostalgia

[mudskipper]

The Saint
Brady Bunch
Heidi
Columbo


Enid Blyton
Nancy Drew
The Beano

[stek]

HR Puff'n'stuff!!

The Double Deckers!

[original PM]

The average house in 1971 was £5,632.

Now it is about £300K, so a pint should cost about £5.75 now, or house prices are overpriced.

Based on the pint being about £3.10, the average house should cost about £160K.

So either beer has become amazingly cheap, or houses have become idiotically expensive.

Interestingly enough it was 6 quid a pint last night at Wembley and ten quid a burger

So based on that I would say southern house prices are about right.

[DimPrawn]

Interestingly enough it was 6 quid a pint last night at Wembley and ten quid a burger

So based on that I would say southern house prices are about right.

If you are talking about Wembley beer prices then you should be comparing it with London house prices. Nearly £500K for Wembley.

[stek]

I was watching The Good Life from 1975 and in one ep. Jerry Leadbetter's salary was mentioned, £18,000. Now I looked on some website that worked out the equivalent current salary, was about £134,000 in today's money, which seemed a bit much to me. Especially as when I first started working in 1979, my salary was £6292 so broadly equivalent to £45,000 - can't be right for an 18 year old.

Unless inflation was so rampant in the late seventies it was really worth like 20k, even that seems too much.

[vetran]

£51 chicken!

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[Bee]

I remember:

I did not like to eat until 5 years old.
Punching the boys at school.
Superman movie.
Close Encounters movie.
ABBA

[BlasterBates]

Obviously I wasn't an Abba fan, but I persuaded my sister to buy had all their records.

[Bee]

Obviously I wasn't an Abba fan, but I persuaded my sister to buy had all their records.