Groceries
Price for one gallon of milk in 1970?
$1.57
bus ticket Atlanta to NY?
$32.30
movie theater ticket?
$1.55 (same as almost $12 in 2023 money) increase in price due to increase in cable TV watchers
Thanksgiving dinner?
$17.12
microwave?**
$495
Average cost of potatoes per pound in 1970?
13.4 cents
one night at Days Inn in Atlanta?
$8.88
Elvis concert ticket?
$8
gas per gallon?
36 cents
21 inch color TV?
$500
Average cost of one dozen eggs in 1970?
61 cents
airplane ticket to California from New York?**
$152.50
high-end restaurant dinner in Atlanta per person?
$10
median monthly rent for all households in 1970?
$108
window a/c unit?
$200
Average cost of one pound (4 sticks) of butter in 1970?
$1.03
rent a car for one day?
$10
new mustang hardtop?**
$2,721
power bill yearly?
$10.582 (2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour with average annual consumption being 481 kWh equals 1,058.2 cents/by 100)
dryer?
$190
Average cost of one loaf of white bread in 1970?
36 cents
a 4 day cruise with Venture Cruise Lines could cost you as little as?**
$135
median price of 3 bedroom house in Atlanta
$11,900
stamp?
6 cents
new, American-made Fender Stratocaster guitar?**
$275.60