the price of survey and other related text books were reasonably priced. I ran across this list in a 1982 issue of The Arizona Surveyor and thought the readers would be interested to see how the prices have escalated since then.
1982 Economy
President: Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President: George Bush
Population: 231,664,458
Life expectancy: 74.5 years
Dow-Jones
High: 1,070
Low: 776
Federal spending: $745.76 billion
Federal debt: $1137.3 billion
Inflation: 6%
Consumer Price Index: 96.5
Unemployment: 7.6%
Prices
Cost of a new home: $83,900.00
Cost of a new car: $ 1800
Median Household Income: $20,171.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.20
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $1.30
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.84
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $2.24
uhhh..
Not disagreeing with those numbers, except:
New cars cost more than $1800 in 1982. They cost more than that in 1972; Ford used to advertise the Pinto and Maverick as "Still under $2000".
Mine was red.
1982
1 Olivia Newton-John Physical
2 Survivor Eye Of The Tiger
3 Joan Jett and The Blackhearts I Love Rock N' Roll
4 Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder Ebony And Ivory
5 J. Geils Band Centerfold
6 Human League Don't You Want Me
7 John Cougar Jack And Diane
8 John Cougar Hurts So Good
9 Steve Miller Band Abracadabra
10 Chicago Hard To Say I'm Sorry
uhhh..
Don't start hasslin me boy or I'll never release the nun. 😉
Besides it's the first thing I could plagiarize.
Sister Mary Bogart
If you see her..remind her she still owes me twenty bucks. B-)
Remember when you were young
You shined like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Yes, unfortunately I do remember when
I thought most of the popular music at the time was crap
And time hasn't changed my opinion
🙁
I check my Itunes for 1982. I only have 3 ... Steve Winwood - Valerie, Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun, and XTC -Senses Working Overtime. 1982 must have been better than 1981. I have nothing from 1981.
> 1982 Economy
>
> President: Ronald W. Reagan
> Vice President: George Bush
Ah, the bad old days. I'm sure not missing them at all. That was when the saving-and-loans were deregulated, creating the bubble that destroyed the real estate market in Texas for several years afterwards. What a bad old time that was to be a surveyor starting out in private practice, too.
Many of the longterm problems we're just now digging our way out of began then. No nostalgia here.
