the toll of inflation

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:01 PM -0500 2/6/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 2/6/2009 08:11 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>rom a slightly later generation, I remember well "That and 15 cents
>>will get you on the subway."  15 cents was annoying, since unlike the
>>earlier fare you needed two separate coins (or, worse, a whole
>>quarter).
>
>Admittedly my memory is fuzzy, but wasn't it when the fare went to 15
>cents that tokens were introduced?  Or were you annoyed that you had
>to use two coins to buy a token?
>
Yes, and yes.  Whence the variant "That and 15 cents will buy you a
(subway) token". Was there a time, if I'm not totally off-base, when
the bus fare was maybe 12 cents while the subway tokens were 15?

LH

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