1984 pub beer prices

[mantis]

I'm going to a function next month, the bar at the club is selling beer at 1984 prices. No one I have asked can remember how much a pot/middy was & I can't find anywhere on the net that has it.

So can any BF posters remember?

 

[sabre_ac]

Been to an "80s" night where they supposedly had 80's priced drinks..I seem to remeber pints being 4-5 dollars.

 

[mantis]

Been to an "80s" night where they supposedly had 80's priced drinks..I seem to remeber pints being 4-5 dollars.

I think they were ripping you off. I was thinking about $1.50 pot/middy, but I could be wrong.

 

[jim boy]

I remember buying 2 stubbies for $2 exactly at the local bottleshop in 1987, so $1.50 a pot would be about right for 1984

 

[mantis]

Cheers Jim Boy, trying to work out how much money to take, seems that $20 will be more than enough.

 

[Pantsless]

Can't really help with 1984 prices, but in the pubs around Melb Uni in 1994, pots were $1.90.

 

[wang]

Was 16 in 2000 and I vauguely recall paying $2.20 a pot. I would have thought 1984 prices might have been cheaper than $1.50.

 

[- PC -]

Cheers Jim Boy, trying to work out how much money to take, seems that $20 will be more than enough.

$20

Bus ride into the city, night at the Grenfell Tavern, Maccas, $2.50 each for a taxi and enough to buy the Sunday paper the next morning



I can recall pints being about $1.20-1.50 and ''schooners'' around 90c- $1.10

 

[mantis]

PC, aren't schooners bigger than middies? I thought the smaller ones were called ponies, well in Vic anyway.

$20 certainly doesn't go far these days, if you are going for a night on the town.

 

[- PC -]

Schooners and pots are both 285 ml

 

[TigerCraig]

not in NSW

here a middy is 285ml, a schooner is 375ml

 

[- PC -]

Yes its hard to work out whats what

In WA a middy is 285 ml another is 425 but not a pint and a pint is 525ml

In SA it was Butcher 200ml Schooner 285ml and Pint 425ml , I also think ponys were 185ml but I could be mistaken

 

[TigerCraig]

Actually a NSW Schooner is 425ml (same as SA pint). (mls confuse me - I still think in ounces). The old diggers still drink "sevens" - 7 ounce glasses

The spawn of the devil appearing now in Sydney city bars is the "schmiddy" - sized between a middy & a schooner, at schooner prices

 

[Lidge]

<managed a pub in '86>

1984 prices.

Pots = $1.00 - $1.10
Pack of Cigs (25's) - $2.00ish

I need a time machine.

 

[TigerCraig]

door charges were normally about $2 each too.

Used to go out with a pocket full of nice green $2 notes

 

[- PC -]

Pack of Cigs (25's) - $2.00ish.

Correct I gave up in 1986 when Escort Red 30s were 2.20 a pack

 

[Leper]

<managed a pub in '86>

1984 prices.

Pots = $1.00 - $1.10
Pack of Cigs (25's) - $2.00ish

I need a time machine.

Spot on Lidge... I still remember all the old derro's at the Burv cracking the sads because a pot went from 96 cents to $1.02 in about that year. It was about the same day dollar coins came out. Coincidence?

 

[Philzsay]

Only beer I had in 84 was sneaking a few sips from my grandfathers or uncles tinnys.... well I was 8 at the time

 

[medusala]

1984 prices.

Pots = $1.00 - $1.10

I can distinctly remember paying $1.40 a pot in '88.



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[MrAaron]

imagine if there was a time now where we could get petrol in 1980's price ??

 

[Lidge]

imagine if there was a time now where we could get petrol in 1980's price ??

They way petrol prices are heading, won't be long before we see the kids sniffing beer.

 

[Welshy84]

For future reference

 

[Gavin Excell]

Cigarettes $1.75

That would be a pack? Great value