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Glyn Barnes
That was wild. I was at college but helping on a milk round at weekends and holidays. One eldery customer disputed her bill and made me add it up time and time again without telling me what she thought was the problem. Eventually I discovered she had converted back to LSD added it up and converted the total to decimal, as I result she was convinced she should pay a half penny more than I was asking for. Once I had explaind this to her I had to explain to many customers why their delivery was late.

 
You delivered milk to elderly ladies who did acid??? 

That may have expalined it!

jamesg1213

sharke
I remember when a bottle of Brown Ale was 99p 

First time I got drunk was on 3 pints of (proper, with bits in) scrumpy, at 27p a pint. Hammered for 81 pence.

I remember as an impoverished student with a side line in milk delivery "Top Draft Heavy" (a type of mild ale so ancient you cant even google it!) was 11p a pint. Some evening we nursed a half for hours! Bitter was a couple pence more and larger was for the boys who left school ASAP and went trawling and were minted.
 
But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

Glyn Barnes

jamesg1213

sharke
I remember when a bottle of Brown Ale was 99p 

First time I got drunk was on 3 pints of (proper, with bits in) scrumpy, at 27p a pint. Hammered for 81 pence.

I remember as an impoverished student with a side line in milk delivery "Top Draft Heavy" (a type of mild ale so ancient you cant even google it!) was 11p a pint. Some evening we nursed a half for hours! Bitter was a couple pence more and larger was for the boys who left school ASAP and went trawling and were minted.
 
But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

Up until around 1992 there was a legendary pub in Newcastle called the Broken Doll, a real dive. It was basically the cause of my downfall at nearby Newcastle College. So easy to skip lessons and head to "The Doll." 99p for a bottle of Brown and I think just over a quid for a pint of Slalom D - a stupidly powerful lager that unsurprisingly tasted like rat's p***. And I think it was just over a quid for 10 ciggies at the time. You really could go out and get stupidly drunk on a tenner. And then we'd climb bridges and paint our band names on them 
 
Such great times. 

Thinking about it the price of beer since the early seventies as increased about 20 fold. New albums were about £3.50. The same inflation would make an album £75 and a single £20

Glyn Barnes
Thinking about it the price of beer since the early seventies as increased about 20 fold. New albums were about £3.50. The same inflation would make an album £75 and a single £20

True, but this is BEER we're talking about here! 
 
It's not uncommon to buy a pint of nice micro-brew around here for $7.  At some of the biggest, hottest nightclubs in Hollywood back in the 80's you could get something like a bottle of Corona and pay at least $10 each.
 
I used to have Widmer's Drop Top on tap at my home (1/4 keg) and it only cost me $56 for 60 pints (the big ones)!  Mmm...  Cheap, draught (draft) beer.  Now THAT'S the way it should be! 

Glyn Barnes
Thinking about it the price of beer since the early seventies as increased about 20 fold. New albums were about £3.50. The same inflation would make an album £75 and a single £20

Fair point Glyn. Mind you, I would argue that the real cost of beer in the pubs is what has increased. The price of 'supermarket' (especially canned) beer has probably fallen in real terms. I worked in an off licence when I was 18 and the cost of beer we sold was around the same as the boozer, if not slightly higher.
 
Undoubtedly, the price of supermarket alcohol is one of the reasons for the decline in the pub trade in this country over the last 20 or so years.

Bars started declining here when our society got serious about impaired driving.

SteveStrummerUK
Fair point Glyn. Mind you, I would argue that the real cost of beer in the pubs is what has increased. The price of 'supermarket' (especially canned) beer has probably fallen in real terms. I worked in an off licence when I was 18 and the cost of beer we sold was around the same as the boozer, if not slightly higher.
 
Undoubtedly, the price of supermarket alcohol is one of the reasons for the decline in the pub trade in this country over the last 20 or so years.

Good point, and it becomes a vicious circle, less people go to the pub, so the atmosphere isn't as good, so less people go.....


There were around 20 pubs in my town in the 70's more than one per 1000 people. They all used to do a good trade. Now there are fewer, and town has grown. With the exception of Weatherspoon’s all seem to be struggling.
 
 

BobF
Bars started declining here when our society got serious about impaired driving.

Certainly a factor in the UK for country pubs but I don’t think it made much difference in the towns and cities. I think the smoking ban had a big effect, in many ways it’s a good thing but it has reduced custom in many places.
 
 

SteveStrummerUK

Glyn Barnes
Thinking about it the price of beer since the early seventies as increased about 20 fold. New albums were about £3.50. The same inflation would make an album £75 and a single £20

Fair point Glyn. Mind you, I would argue that the real cost of beer in the pubs is what has increased. The price of 'supermarket' (especially canned) beer has probably fallen in real terms. I worked in an off licence when I was 18 and the cost of beer we sold was around the same as the boozer, if not slightly higher.
 
Undoubtedly, the price of supermarket alcohol is one of the reasons for the decline in the pub trade in this country over the last 20 or so years.

While we're on All Our Yesterdays, do you remember buying cans from an 'offy' window at the back of the pub after kicking out time? probably Watneys, maybe Whitbread Trophy or Tankard..or Skol Lager

Glyn Barnes
 
There were around 20 pubs in my town in the 70's more than one per 1000 people. They all used to do a good trade. Now there are fewer, and town has grown. With the exception of Weatherspoon’s all seem to be struggling.
 

Worcester was once quite (in)famous in having 365* pubs in the City, one for each day of the year!
 
The local in-joke (should that be inn-joke) was choosing which one to visit twice in a leap year
 
*I wouldn't be at all surprised if that figure's now down to a few dozen.