FLASHBACK: 1979 Season!

Junior · January 20, 2011, 06:36:34 PM

The Courthouse Theater was brand new that year...I was still working in the Foods Department and celebrated my 17th birthday at the Vineyard Restaurant...SDC Entertainment legend D.A. Calloway was still just a lowly performer, doing a piano/singing/comedy act at Valley Theater...The '79 brochure says the admission for an adult that year was just $8. It all happened in 1979 at SDC. Check out my Flickr site for photo proof:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan

sanddunerider · January 20, 2011, 06:46:16 PM

$8.00!!!!?

?? wow, now lunch is that much.. OR a sasparilla and peanuts...2 1/2 gallons of gas..

Hey rube your the math whizzz... what the percent increase in price over the last 30 years?

rubedugans · January 20, 2011, 07:11:16 PM

Looking at inflation first,
In 1979 you purchased an item for $8.00 then in 2010 that same item would cost:$24.03
Rate of inflation change: 200.4%

For a current one day admission of 59.11 (including tax), that translates to in 1979 $19.68.

So if you can see this, a one day pass today is more than twice as expensive as in 1979.
(It is actually 2.46 times more expensive!)
Some 1979 stats:
Median Household Income: $16,461.00
Cost of a new home: $71,800.00
Cost of a new car: $ 5,770.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.15
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.86
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.85
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.62

sanddunerider · January 20, 2011, 08:18:24 PM

LOL!!!!

Is that ALL you could come up with?

? LOL!!

Thanks rube! knew you would have the answer(s)..

okiebluegrass · January 21, 2011, 09:19:36 AM

WoW

I think we need to add "and statistician" to his title

sanddunerider · January 21, 2011, 09:33:52 AM

ABSOLUTELY!

rubedugans · January 21, 2011, 11:21:08 AM

Some other 1979 items:

sanddunerider · January 21, 2011, 12:38:34 PM

CLASSICS!!!!! All of them..

How-doFolks · January 21, 2011, 03:21:19 PM

Kill'r!!

KBCraig · January 22, 2011, 06:59:45 AM

In 1979, I hauled hay for a nickel a bale.

Inflation: the invisible tax.

rubedugans · January 22, 2011, 10:22:05 AM

Federal spending: $504.03 billion
Federal debt: $829.5 billion
Unemployment: 5.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.15

Your $0.05 pay...
Would be a whopping $0.15 cents a day now.

Junior · January 22, 2011, 11:48:41 AM

Rube, Baldknobbers opened their theater on Highway 76 in 1968. The brochure above says "20th anniversary" which would put it at a release date 1988. The other two brochures for SDC and Shepherd of the Hills are from 1978, I've got copies of them. Now, your Baldknobbers brochure COULD be from 1978, as they performed together in the Branson area since the 1950s. SO, I guess I should take that into consideration. Could you clarify? Thanks!

Junior · January 22, 2011, 11:51:27 AM

WHOOPS! We're talking 1979 season, not '78. Sorry.

rubedugans · January 22, 2011, 12:03:38 PM

SOTH is obviously from 79' as it says 1979 season.

From: http://www.baldknobbers.com/history/

QuoteThe Baldknobbers Jamboree, Branson's first country music and comedy show, started a tradition that goes back to 1959 when brothers Bill, Jim, Lyle and Bob Mabe began entertaining visitors in downtown Branson on the Taneycomo lakefront.

So Baldknobbers started in 1959 with their first brochure making the 20th the 1979 season.

As far as the SDC brochure I had I was pretty sure it was 1979.

History Buff · January 22, 2011, 12:34:55 PM

If I'm not mistaken, if 1959 was their first season, 1978 would have been their 20th.