post is from a jai alai forum, not my writing. Basically the minimum $2 bet fifty years ago is still $2 ( or less), but it was really like $20 back then, and the handles have gone down !
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Inflation
[SIZE=-1]Posted on March 29, 2010 at 00:54:39 AM by bigplay
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Think about this,
Dania opened in 1956? I think. At that time minimum wage was $1.
$1 in 1956 spends like $8 today.
Admission was at that time $1, that's true for at least some of the seating area ( I saw a ticket)
was the minimum bet $2 at that time?
Because if so, that would be equal to about $24 to get in the fronton and place 1 minimum wager !
Any old timers out there, feel free to chime in and tell me about the good ole days. Perhaps a day at the fronton that changed your life (for the good hopefully)
I met a really old guy at old daytona dog track, and he told me his life would probably had been very different if it was not for a single night there when he was young..
The story was something like he hit for the entire pool, holding the only ticket for the daily double,
I think he said it was $4,000
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Inflation
[SIZE=-1]Posted on March 29, 2010 at 00:54:39 AM by bigplay
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Think about this,
Dania opened in 1956? I think. At that time minimum wage was $1.
$1 in 1956 spends like $8 today.
Admission was at that time $1, that's true for at least some of the seating area ( I saw a ticket)
was the minimum bet $2 at that time?
Because if so, that would be equal to about $24 to get in the fronton and place 1 minimum wager !
Any old timers out there, feel free to chime in and tell me about the good ole days. Perhaps a day at the fronton that changed your life (for the good hopefully)
I met a really old guy at old daytona dog track, and he told me his life would probably had been very different if it was not for a single night there when he was young..
The story was something like he hit for the entire pool, holding the only ticket for the daily double,
I think he said it was $4,000