Ad Of The Day

There was a coffee shop on the USC campus in 1951. Look at those prices! And milk is served with every meal.

29 thoughts on “Ad Of The Day

  1. Here are the top 10 teams in Sagarin’s strength of schedule rankings and their record:
    1. FSU (0-2)
    2. Fresno St (1-2)
    3. Pitt (1-3)
    4. BC (1-3)
    5. UF (2-1)
    6. BYU (1-3)
    7. USC (4-0)
    8. UCLA (2-2)
    9. Stanford (2-2)
    10. Georgia So (0-3)
    As you can see, USC is the only undefeated team in the group.
    Here are the strength of schedule rankings for all of the undefeated teams:
    7. USC (4-0)
    14. Georgia (4-0)
    26. Alabama (4-0)
    29. Michigan (4-0)
    30. SDSU (4-0)
    32. TCU (4-0)
    37. Clemson (4-0)
    47. Texas Tech (3-0)
    59. Duke (4-0)
    65. Oklahoma (4-0)
    80. Wisconsin (4-0)
    84. Penn St (4-0)
    88. Washington (4-0)
    92. Navy (3-0)
    98. UCF (2-0)
    103. Wake Forest (4-0)
    104. Utah (4-0)
    111. Memphis (3-0)
    112. Minnesota (3-0)
    117. Virginia Tech (4-0)
    123. Washington St (4-0)
    138. South Florida (4-0)
    164. Miami (2-0)

    • Peaceful Warrior,

      People also forget, if you are undefeated, by default your strength of schedule reduces. You are beating your opponents.

      Then there is the body blow. Stanford couldn’t recover from the USC game.

    • Well, it doesn’t look like Washington State has gotten too taxed on the way to our Friday showdown. What a joke of a schedule they have…..

    • Thanks for the data crunching, PW!

      Looking forward to Dupe or Miamiscum falling from the undefeated ranks Saturday.

  2. Yeah, right, Scotie, have you heard of the concept of ‘relativity?’

    A good wage in 1951 was $5000. Today that same wage would be about $35,000, or a seven times increase (at least)

    So your hamburger and drink at 35-cents in 1951 would be about $2.45 today.

    Sounds about right.

    I wish we would go back to the days when a dollar was a dollar, and a millionaire was a true millionaire. Today you need at least 7-million bucks to be the equivalent of a 1951 millionaire.

    • I’ll bet that the quality of the 35ยข burger in 1951 was WAAAYYY better than a $2.45 burger today.

    • Where can you get a burger for 2.45? Every place I go to is 11-19 bucks, and no milk today.

  3. It’s rather shocking they felt the need to advertise with those prices. If it was that way today, the whole campus would be filled with cheapskate non-students and homelesses.

  4. That was before a certain political party learned how to tax everything in sight multiple ways.

    Imagine how the prices today would increase with a $15 minimum wage.

  5. Did you also get milk if you ordered the hamburger & root beer special?
    I’m confused.

  6. That is the 1st year my dad took us to the campus and football games, he went to SC and demtal school,later taught at the dental school in late 70’s and 80’s; I know we ate on campus but it seems like it was somewhere around the book store; it is an interesting memory,I was 8 then and my brother was 5.

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