$29 for a cab ride in the 60's?
that seems kinda high even for LA
shareWhen a cab driver knows that you're not a local they will drive around just to run the meter up.
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I'm assuming his boat made port in Long Beach, like the bike did. If that's true, then trip to hotel would have been about 35 miles. According to this website, http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ , $29 in today's money would be $183.43.
LAX to Pasadena, which is within 7 miles of that distance, would cost $60. He definitely got ripped off.
Lol one of my favorite parts is when he gives him the 10 cent tip instead of 10 percent.
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It definitely gives the impression he knew he took it in the rear pocket but was not going to bend over or take it in the other rear pocket. The cabby charged extra for his luggage as well.
Back in the day the I-110(29.4mi) from San Pedro and the I-710(35.6mi) from Long Beach freeways did not exist the thing is though...old 4 lane road or modern freeway it still takes over an hour and a half in day time traffic to get there.
LA la land sucks!
If you like inspirational underdog wins movies like this, you'll like Cool Running, about the Jamaican Olympic Bobsled Team. I need a hankie for the end of both of these movies.
There seems to be the feeling that the evil taxi driver overcharged poor ol' Burt. However, if you stop to estimate the distance from the Port of L.A. all the way to Sunset Boulevard, I think you'll find that $28 was actually a pretty typical price, even in 1962! (I know because I used to ride taxis all over L.A. in the 1960's.) What many of you probably don't know about the taxi business is that if a particular taxi ride is over a certain distance, the driver is allowed to charge a "FLAT RATE." This flat rate is usually figured at one and a half times what the meter actually reads. The meter should have read a lesser amount such that the driver could have then added the additional fifty-percent flat-rate charge. That the director didn't take this into account probably reflects his own ignorance of the taxi business; or possibly, the director was simply using this as an additional rhetorical device to demonstrate Burt's general ignorance about life in the U.S., thereby adding to the sympathetic reading of an otherwise naive and bumbling character. I'll admit that the driver was really a rude creep, but hey, I didn't feel he was overcharging! Anyway, the driver got his comeuppance when Burt only gave him a 10 cent tip.
shareBastard dident even deserve a 10 cent tip.
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