As A Doctor, Here's The First Thing I Thought When I Found Out Trump Has COVID-19 (Page 14): Yeah. I was in Louisiana on a batteau heading out to go craw fishing. I saw a tug boat that...

Tug484

Seth wrote:

Listening to them was one of the factors in my moving to Nawlins in the late 1970s and taking a job as a deck hand on a push boat (a tug that pushes barges around)

Yeah. I was in Louisiana on a batteau heading out to go craw fishing. I saw a tug boat that had my husband's name on it. I took a picture.
I loved craw fishing, but I don't like to eat them.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

Yeah. I was in Louisiana on a batteau heading out to go craw fishing. I saw a tug boat that had my husband's name on it. I took a picture.
I loved craw fishing, but I don't like to eat them.

Never got burnt fingers at a crawfish boil?

Tug484

Seth wrote:

Never got burnt fingers at a crawfish boil?

I like all the other things they put in them, but not the Crawfish.
My husband and son's love them.
We used to go to all the Crawfish boils in Llano and the last one I went to, they had changed it. A plate instead of a loaded flat beer box.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

I like all the other things they put in them, but not the Crawfish.
My husband and son's love them.
We used to go to all the Crawfish boils in Llano and the last one I went to, they had changed it. A plate instead of a loaded flat beer box.

...🎵and the times they are a changin'...🎶😁

Tug484

Seth wrote:

...🎵and the times they are a changin'...🎶😁

Yeah, along with prices.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

Yeah, along with prices.

Big time. Occasionally, for amusement, I google "cost of living" for a year when I was decades younger to compare what I was paying then for basic items to what they cost now. Talk about exponential increases...

Tug484

Seth wrote:

Big time. Occasionally, for amusement, I google "cost of living" for a year when I was decades younger to compare what I was paying then for basic items to what they cost now. Talk about exponential increases...

Boy, don't I know it. It's insane.
I met a woman once that told me when she got married, her husband made $14.00 a week and they lived much better then than they were at the time I met her.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

Boy, don't I know it. It's insane.
I met a woman once that told me when she got married, her husband made $14.00 a week and they lived much better then than they were at the time I met her.

In 1971, you could spend $225 a month for a two bedroom apartment on Nob Hill in San Francisco. Now I doubt you could touch the same apartment for under $4000.

In the West Village in NY, an apartment that ran $275 a month in the late 1970s would cost an easy $4500 a month now.

My grandfather paid $10,000 for the house I grew up in, in Forest Hills, NY (Queens) in 1950. The last time it was sold, in about 2007, it went for a little over $800,000.

People who had the foresight and the money to invest in various types of real estate in large cities back in the 1960s and 1970s are majorly well off today.

Tug484

Seth wrote:

In 1971, you could spend $225 a month for a two be... (show quote)

Before my dad died, his bank let my sister in law and I check his safety deposit box. He had paid $6.800.00 for a 166 acre irrigated farm with a house.
My son bought 7 1/2 acres of bare land about 13 years ago for $33,000.00.
Times are changing.

Seth

Tug484 wrote:

Before my dad died, his bank let my sister in law and I check his safety deposit box. He had paid $6.800.00 for a 166 acre irrigated farm with a house.
My son bought 7 1/2 acres of bare land about 13 years ago for $33,000.00.
Times are changing.

And changing fast.

Tug484

Seth wrote:

And changing fast.

I'll say.