You are lucky. Very few remember those times. My grandfather 1894-1986 told me when he was a kid everything you bought cost a flat $1.00, $ 5.00 etc. He always joked about this .99 cents and $ 1.99 prices. Un-American he said. It was the early 60's and all we had close to the farm was the Coast to Coast store. Back then most all the imported stuff was from Japan. I was only a kid, 10 years old but remember how he would turn items over and look at where they were made . If it wasn't America he was furious, " Why do they sell this imported stuff when the same thing is made right here in the USA ? " I thought he was just a cranky old man. Looking at the decline of American jobs today, I realize he was looking to the future. Now, I think he was a cranky old genius !