1965
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222222)
United States
July 7, 2025 4:40am CST
I could talk forever about the 1960s and 70s; but here's some trivia about 1965:
Minimum wage was $1.25 - I worked at the library from the age of 14-17. Because I was a student, I was paid $.70 per hour. The college kids received minimum wage. I wonder how they got away with that?
A postage stamp was ***$.05***. Today they are $.76.
Gold was an amazing $35.12 per ounce. It is now over $3,000.00 per ounce. I wish I would have invested in gold!!!
A dozen eggs was $.53. I have heard of egg prices of $5.00 per dozen and more today.
A movie ticket was $1.00. How I remember those days when we'd go see any movie we wanted to for a buck...and sometimes a double feature.
Top on the charts were the Beatles singing Yesterday and the Rolling Stones with I Can't Get No Satisfaction.
I graduated from high school in June of 1965.
Do you have any memories from 1965?
Photo Credit: Pixabay
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
7 Jul
Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how one might want to look at it, 1965 was before my time, so I have no memories of it. But it definitely seemed like an interesting time. Minimum wage was $3.35 when I started working, but my first job paid student's wages at $2.50 when I was 14.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
The 60s and 70s were "the bomb". Best time ever.
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@porwest (112717)
• United States
7 Jul
@LindaOHio I do remember the 70s, but I was a kid. I wouldn't have known if it was good or bad because I was a kid and had nothing to worry about. lol
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89450)
• Rupert, Idaho
7 Jul
Wow, those prices are so different....but so were earnings, so makes sense.
No memories here from then obviously because I wasn't even a thought then.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
@MommyOfEli2013 I know what you mean. Mentally I feel like 22...physically I feel like 90.
@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
Ahhh. Another youngster. I feel so old.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89450)
• Rupert, Idaho
7 Jul
@LindaOHio I don't feel young with my health
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@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
7 Jul
Very little, because I was only five. 
Good year for music, though!!
Good year for music, though!!2 people like this
@FourWalls (86568)
• United States
7 Jul
@LindaOHio — don’t know, I’ll have to ask my parents why they were so slow. 
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
@FourWalls lol I could be the oldest one here.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
Yes. All of you are so much younger than I am. How did that happen?
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
7 Jul
@LindaOHio - I have never been a big fan of The Beatles.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
I liked the Beatles better. Even went to their concert in the 60s.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
@LadyDuck That's OK. We each have our own musical preferences.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
7 Jul
No, I don't remember anything about 1965. I turned 2 years old in October 1965. 
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
7 Jul
@LindaOHio I don't feel like a youngster today.
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@Ineeddentures (33875)
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7 Jul
Oh yes
1965 was the year I started school
That's about all
I do remember the first class photo getting taken
But not much else
I was going.
60c years ago
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@Ineeddentures (33875)
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7 Jul
@LindaOHio
I am indeed
A youngster of 64 years old
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
7 Jul
Let's see . . The car looks familiar. I was twelve years old when you graduated. Or almost twelve, my birthday is in August. Seventh grade. I was a sad and scrawny kid with a younger brother and a two year old sister.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
That's a 1965 Mercedes Benz I believe. I graduated at 17. Everyone here is so much younger than I am. Bummer. I'm sorry you were a sad kid.
@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
7 Jul
Well, yeah we lived in a house next to the highway then. I went one year to a school that had a hill in the background. In the winter we would slide down the hill on cafeteria trays at recess time. You know fun stuff that would never be allowed today. Poor kids!
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@abhi_bangal (7679)
• Ahmednagar, India
8 Jul
We often talk about such comparisons. And it's always fun to compare two different time periods. As you mentioned eggs, we used to talk about rice. I used to mock my mom, saying, you should have stored houseful of rice back then. Today we wouldn't need to buy such costly rice. (It's another thing that the rice would have rotten by now).
I also told her that you should at least have bought gold then. Gold wouldn't have rotted. But then those days there was money only to make both ends meet. Those were such days. Though we can afford a lot of things today, the time won't come back 
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
8 Jul
Thank you so much for commenting. I have enjoyed everyone's input about that year.
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
7 Jul
I was 8 and my dad was still with us life was good my summers were spent in the Catskill Mountains and it seemed the world was a nice and friendly place,
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
8 Jul
Yes. Things were totally different than they are now.
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@Marilynda1225 (91013)
• United States
7 Jul
Yup, 1965 brings back some really good memories for me too. Gosh those prices compared to today are unreal. I graduated in 1964, married in 1965 and had my first child in 1966. 
The good old days
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@Marilynda1225 (91013)
• United States
11 Jul
@LindaOHio Yes I married young. When I look back I think I was crazy
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
Wow you married young. Thank you for sharing your memory.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
It was a long time ago. My high school is having a 60th reunion this year!!!
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
8 Jul
Not sure of the year but 65-68, one of those were the lucky years in our town. Going to the movies was only $.25. Kids were dropped off in groups to watch the movies and they could stay for the next feature if they wanted to. kids were well mannered and behaved back then.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
9 Jul
@LindaOHio Yes, we would have gotten "the look" very fast. That usually did it!
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
8 Jul
Yes. We never would have thought to be rowdy. Our parents would have killed us! lol
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@Orson_Kart (8250)
• United Kingdom
8 Jul
I was but a young lad in 1965. I don’t think I had any concept of money and the cost of things. My only concern then was sweets and watching kids tv. I think it was mainly things like Watch With Mother and The Magic Roundabout that I recall, but memories of Doctor Who haunt me to this day. 
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@Deepizzaguy (122067)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
7 Jul
Not really since I was four years old.
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@Deepizzaguy (122067)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
8 Jul
@LindaOHio You are welcome.
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
8 Jul
Another youngster! Thank you for commenting.
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@Dreamerby (10111)
• Calcutta, India
7 Jul
Wow that's a long time back! Nice that you can recollect these memories!
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
7 Jul
Yes. I have a lot of memories from that time.
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