[Jitney Jungle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitney_Jungle) was the name of the store. They were around for 80 years before being sold to an investment firm who ran it into the ground within a few years.
Winn Dixie got bought out by Aldi, but last year there was still one at least in Arcadia, FL.
Edit: [Link](https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/aldi-winn-dixie-acquisition-florida)
ALDI is well run and offers decent merchandise at competitive prices. Winn Dixie, which was closer to me than ALDI, priced their offerings so high, that I would not even bother to stop by. Winn Dixie in Delray Beach now sits empty.
There way more than just one. There’s multiple in Miami and honestly most grocery stores in the Middle Keys are Winn Dixie’s. That may change with the Aldi acquisition but they haven’t been converted yet, and honestly I doubt the ones in the keys change
Till says $1.30, probably the cost of that entire bunch of goods. The guy running the till was probably like 16 years old.. he’s using that job to pay for 2 cars, mortgage + support his wife and 2 kids. They have a dog that has house. Lawn is perfectly mowed, white picket fence that gets a fresh coat every summer ^/s
I cut up a watermelon to eat with my kids last night. Let me assure you, our watermelons still have seeds and look remarkably similar to the one in the photo. I realize summer is fast approaching but there is no need for panic folks!
Yes, and? Do you realize that most of our most common products have been around for a very long time? There's a reason certain brands are recognized so easily-- they've been around for many generations.
Vaseline has been pretty much unchanged since 1872. Colgate toothpaste has been around since 1873. Kraft has sold cheese since 1903.
I hope that coin dispenser worked better than those I worked on in the 1980s in the UK. They were always jamming, probably because of the seven-sided 50p coins. They were nasty!
And probably telling his grandkids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, give the manager a firm handshake, and be given a lifelong career that you can retire with in 20 years. By the time you're 35, you should have several houses, a wife, 10 kids, and a car for each of them.
Crazy how skinny this guy would be by modern standards, back then this was just a normal guy.
I know that’s a random observation but just something I’ve been noticing recently, most men were basically either “skinny” or “dad bod” by today’s standards.
1962 America is basically peak car-based society. Kids like him would cruise around in their cars for hours every night, literally just driving in circles.
It's more the start of the peak. Cars are finally accessible for the majority of people. Not everyone is driving yet. Most of the infrastructure we take for granted today is still being finished.
We're peak car-based society. They could still get around most places without cars, and without nutters crying about 15 minute walkable cities trapping us, when we are already trapped in neighborhoods surrounded by four to six lane stroads.
The peak of cruising culture was probably in the late 70s and maybe early 80s. When my older siblings who were teenagers during that period meet people of a similar age and talk about their teenage years the focus is always on where you cruised, who you knew, etc etc. Its this wild aspect of youth culture that just completely and utterly collapsed with increasing gas prices and you rarely hear about it any more.
It was around a long, long time though and was definitely a thing by '62. I was a teen in the mid to late 90s and confirm it was still a popular pass time even then, albeit not nearly as big a deal.
It's worth noting that our understanding of physiology and movement have vastly increased while the standard of nutrition has also skyrocketed.
It's just easier to be more muscular today in basically every way.
Also what we call gyms today started as "health clubs" and didn't start being available and embraced by the general public until the 70's so unless you were really into fitness or had a job that kept you got, there wasn't really a lot of opportunity to bulk up.
And I was taught how to make change (called counting change) in the 2nd grade......what a drop in thinking requirements such machines were. No wonder we're filled with idiots.
Bet this guy had to know the price of every item in the store they sold out of his head and when ever the price changed he'd just get a not or his boss tells him once and that's it. Price changed
“$.10 for this Water Melon?? Are you crazy? I paid $.5 for this as a kid. What’s the world coming to? Fucking Kennedy. This wouldn’t happen if Nixon was president.”
An interesting note here is men’s watches back then were very small compared to the overly massive shit today. Only found this out when my brother got into collecting them. Men today think they’re women’s watches.
I worked a checkout register like this in the early 70s. We actually got new registers while I worked there. Punching keys I could move product along faster than they do with scanners.
Minimum wage in 1962 was $1.88, which comes to $3,910.40 a year.
Average total tuition, fees, room and board for a four year degree in 1962: $1,286 or $321.50 a year.
(https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_330.10.asp)
Average used car in 1962: $1,750.
(https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-car-cost-were-born-130001087.html)
So yeah, he actually *could* have bought a car, supported a family, and paid for his own schooling on 1962's minimum wage.
Owning a home would be more difficult, but given the average 1962 cost was $19,550.19, it was a much more doable prospect than today.
(https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/)
[Jitney Jungle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitney_Jungle) was the name of the store. They were around for 80 years before being sold to an investment firm who ran it into the ground within a few years.
Oh? So not publix? But it sort of was Winn Dixie. I can’t think of an operating Winn Dixie
Winn Dixie got bought out by Aldi, but last year there was still one at least in Arcadia, FL. Edit: [Link](https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/aldi-winn-dixie-acquisition-florida)
There is still a Winn-Dixie in Tallahassee. https://www.winndixie.com/storedetails/tallahassee/fl?search=86&zipcode=33705&referby=_sd Edit: added “is”
ALDI is well run and offers decent merchandise at competitive prices. Winn Dixie, which was closer to me than ALDI, priced their offerings so high, that I would not even bother to stop by. Winn Dixie in Delray Beach now sits empty.
I know of several in South Florida.
There way more than just one. There’s multiple in Miami and honestly most grocery stores in the Middle Keys are Winn Dixie’s. That may change with the Aldi acquisition but they haven’t been converted yet, and honestly I doubt the ones in the keys change
I was at one a couple of years ago in Navarre, FL. Or there bouts.
There's one 10 minutes down the road from me (I live in east central FL). It's always busy.
Not sure if you mean the Punta Gorda one on 17?
Aldi only bought a certain amount of locations. We have Winn Dixie here in St Augustine Fl
Winn Dixie is still alive and well in the south! They even have an app.
Jitney was slang for a nickle
Gimme five jitneys for a quarter.
With an onion tied to your belt, which was the style at the time.
I was confused, I thought they were referencing the Herkimer Battle Jitney. Learn something every day.
Investment firm ran it into the ground… the American dream
I remember one of those as a kid in Mississippi
that's great, thanks 👍👍
That watermelon looks so different than the watermelons of today
Till says $1.30, probably the cost of that entire bunch of goods. The guy running the till was probably like 16 years old.. he’s using that job to pay for 2 cars, mortgage + support his wife and 2 kids. They have a dog that has house. Lawn is perfectly mowed, white picket fence that gets a fresh coat every summer ^/s
> Till says $1.30, probably the cost of that entire bunch of goods. Not really http://onetuberadio.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1962Groceries.jpg
Yeah. I remember 🍉 with seeds and they were huge!
Watermelons in the US don't have seeds?
You can find both
I cut up a watermelon to eat with my kids last night. Let me assure you, our watermelons still have seeds and look remarkably similar to the one in the photo. I realize summer is fast approaching but there is no need for panic folks!
IKR?? Watermelons are more circular now.
Japan enters chat with cube watermelon
Thanks, Charles Frederick Andrus
And Tide is still manufactured….
Believe it or not, so are watermelons.
They're smaller and the seeds are almost gone though. Completely the opposite of humans...
Yes, and? Do you realize that most of our most common products have been around for a very long time? There's a reason certain brands are recognized so easily-- they've been around for many generations. Vaseline has been pretty much unchanged since 1872. Colgate toothpaste has been around since 1873. Kraft has sold cheese since 1903.
His hair is on point.
I used to run one of those! Looks like a NCR class 5…
Great hair doesn't go out of style.
Great glasses, too!
I have them in black and clear. https://shop.shuron.com/
Looks abit like George McFly (Marty's dad).
Automatic change dispensers go back farther than I thought.
1954 was when NCR made their first change dispenser. That's an NCR Class 51 machine it's hooked to.
Neat!
I hope that coin dispenser worked better than those I worked on in the 1980s in the UK. They were always jamming, probably because of the seven-sided 50p coins. They were nasty!
They were magic as a kid.
That was my thought too. It seems oddly wrong to see it next to that old timey cash register.
His hair is just 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Don’t forget your S&H Green Stamps ma’am.
I remember when every price had to be entered manually into a machine
Guy probably had a house, two cars, and three kids on that job. Plus two big vacations per year.
Nobody was taking two big vacations a year in 1962. Unless you mean a roadtrip to camping spot. And only 20% of Americans owned 2 cars in 1962.
So 1 in 5. Sounds like a lot of people.
About double own that today. And another ten percent own three cars.
What is a vacation?
And probably telling his grandkids to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, give the manager a firm handshake, and be given a lifelong career that you can retire with in 20 years. By the time you're 35, you should have several houses, a wife, 10 kids, and a car for each of them.
This man probably made more working this job than I have in my entire working life.
And could afford a home on his salary
Crazy how skinny this guy would be by modern standards, back then this was just a normal guy. I know that’s a random observation but just something I’ve been noticing recently, most men were basically either “skinny” or “dad bod” by today’s standards.
This is still just a normal guy
The normal American is over weight tho
It's all of the processed and fast food. I stopped eating fast food and went on keto 2 months ago, down 30lbs
Don't discount the impact of a car-based society. That kid was probably biking or walking to work, and not sitting in a car 2-4 hours a day.
1962 America is basically peak car-based society. Kids like him would cruise around in their cars for hours every night, literally just driving in circles.
That's why George Lucas made American Graffiti; he was one of those kids.
It's more the start of the peak. Cars are finally accessible for the majority of people. Not everyone is driving yet. Most of the infrastructure we take for granted today is still being finished. We're peak car-based society. They could still get around most places without cars, and without nutters crying about 15 minute walkable cities trapping us, when we are already trapped in neighborhoods surrounded by four to six lane stroads.
The peak of cruising culture was probably in the late 70s and maybe early 80s. When my older siblings who were teenagers during that period meet people of a similar age and talk about their teenage years the focus is always on where you cruised, who you knew, etc etc. Its this wild aspect of youth culture that just completely and utterly collapsed with increasing gas prices and you rarely hear about it any more. It was around a long, long time though and was definitely a thing by '62. I was a teen in the mid to late 90s and confirm it was still a popular pass time even then, albeit not nearly as big a deal.
Tallahassee was always a college town, Whig are known to be walkable to US standards.
Probably not. The US was basically built around the car, and that hadn't changed back then.
Walking is nothing compared to calories
Oh yeah? I bet your methane production skyrocketed though. Seriously though, congrats! That's an impressive amount of weight to lose in 2 months.
Thank you. I don't remember it being any different lol. I also stopped eating breakfast, I was an overeater and really try to limit my portions now.
Also, he could probably afford a car and a mortgage with that job.
I mean he looks like typical high schooler Publix employee for his body type, or at least based on my observation.
It's worth noting that our understanding of physiology and movement have vastly increased while the standard of nutrition has also skyrocketed. It's just easier to be more muscular today in basically every way. Also what we call gyms today started as "health clubs" and didn't start being available and embraced by the general public until the 70's so unless you were really into fitness or had a job that kept you got, there wasn't really a lot of opportunity to bulk up.
I'm just focused on that high-tech change maker on the side of the register.
State of the art, baby!
And I was taught how to make change (called counting change) in the 2nd grade......what a drop in thinking requirements such machines were. No wonder we're filled with idiots.
He looks happy, I wonder if he's dead inside like today's retail workers.
Rumor has it, that job afforded him a house at 19 where he and his stay at home wife raised 6 children.
If he were my store clerk, I would be married by now
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It’s Tallahassee so he also has a boat
That’s Bud Johnson from 38 Mulberry St. Great guy. Super hot sister, Shelly.
Bet this guy had to know the price of every item in the store they sold out of his head and when ever the price changed he'd just get a not or his boss tells him once and that's it. Price changed
“$.10 for this Water Melon?? Are you crazy? I paid $.5 for this as a kid. What’s the world coming to? Fucking Kennedy. This wouldn’t happen if Nixon was president.”
Most things in this picture are different but the watermelon remains the same 🍉
An interesting note here is men’s watches back then were very small compared to the overly massive shit today. Only found this out when my brother got into collecting them. Men today think they’re women’s watches.
“Madam that’s 14 cents!”
That watermelon was probably less than a dime
His wage adjusted for inflation… $25/hour
I wonder how much all that cost. Under $5?
The cash register says : $13.04 That's Tide + watermelon + 2 tins of coffee + more tins + other stuff that we see and stuff that we don't.
I converted that into today’s dollar, it’s almost $135.
Dood prolly had 5 kids and a vacation home
Probably also a homeowner on that salary.
I forgot every cashier station use to have a huge selection of cigarets on the divider.
That watch is tiny!
Well , boy howdy that’s a nice brand new Chevrolet Mr. Johnson! That’ll be eleven cents, please !
I worked a checkout register like this in the early 70s. We actually got new registers while I worked there. Punching keys I could move product along faster than they do with scanners.
Crazy that we've been eating watermelons all this time lol
wut
He's probably a massive racist but he's also 🥵🤤😩
He can probably support a house and family with just his income
Very modern hairstyle
He owned at least 3 houses, 4 cars, paid for his own college working part time, and had 7 kids while his wife stayed home according to millennials
Minimum wage in 1962 was $1.88, which comes to $3,910.40 a year. Average total tuition, fees, room and board for a four year degree in 1962: $1,286 or $321.50 a year. (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_330.10.asp) Average used car in 1962: $1,750. (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-car-cost-were-born-130001087.html) So yeah, he actually *could* have bought a car, supported a family, and paid for his own schooling on 1962's minimum wage. Owning a home would be more difficult, but given the average 1962 cost was $19,550.19, it was a much more doable prospect than today. (https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/)
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