Depends what you mean by similar position, absolutely or relatively? In other words, what would be equiv lifestyle be today?

A holiday every year, a new car and a house full of apple stuff?

In the UK you could get a TV and washing machine off craigslist for not very much. You could fly to continental europe and back for less than £100 pp. You can pick up a car for maybe £2000 or so.

Difficult to say what a bar managers salary is today, I've seen very vary from marginally above minimum wage to maybe £50-60K.