Sky High Prices

[Hanshi]

Beowulf, I remember getting my first BP rifle.  It was in the mid 1960s and I ordered it from Numrich Arms.  It was a .45 Heritage model underhammer.  It was very nicely built with a real walnut stock.  Price is a bit foggy now, but I paid somewhere in the $70s, IIRC.  But it also came with a (two, actually) fringed heavy leather scabbard, one of which I still have and use.  It also came with a cheap scissor  type bullet mold.  I still have the mold - I used it for years and did okay - although the ball is not as nice as what I get from my Lee & Lyman molds.  I killed bobcats and squirrels with that ball and 60 grains of Dupont & spit patch.  Later I bought a nice .58 zouave for well under a "C" note and a .44 c&b from Navy Arms for around the same $$.  My most proud moment with the Remmy c&b was when I astonished a close friend by shooting a buzzard out of the sky.  My best shot with the zouave was with a prb.  I killed a large fox squirrel with a shot through the neck, exactly where I aimed.  AND, it only made a small entrance and exit slit that was hard to see.  Those were wondrous days.

[Hanshi]

Back then the stores closed at 5:00 and were closed on Sundays and there was no on-line shopping. 

I  remember the days of "blue laws" when it was impossible to buy anything on Sundays.

[beowulf]

Since we're now crying about how little we made, I can probably top (bottom?) you all. As an usher in a movie theater in 1960/61 I worked 48 hours a week for $12.50 plus free popcorn. 25 cents/hour wasn't much even then but I was in high school and didn't have any time to spend it between school and work hours. I saved up enough to pay for my first quarter's tuition in college the next year.

Back then the stores closed at 5:00 and were closed on Sundays and there was no on-line shopping. 

got me beat ! lol worst pay I ever got was for digging potatoes .50 cents a bushel ! which was ok , I was 9 years old so 1966 . I like telling kids what kind of pay I got .and what I could do with it !  and you know danged well they think I`m lying like a congressman seeking re election !

[old salt]

IN 1965 I had a whapping pay of 90 dollars a month as a full time navy sailor, oh that was before taxes.

[beowulf]

amazing and somewhat frightening how much things have changed the last 50 years or so ! 

[Patocazador]

In 1947 after my dad got out of the Navy, we bought a brand new brick house on a corner lot. It cost $9700.00 Now you can't buy the cheapest car for that, maybe not even a decent motorcycle.

When I worked in Rochester, NY as a 19 year old, a draft beer cost a dime and McDonald's hamburgers were 15 cents. Of course gas was .29/gallon as it had been for ages. I once brought a bunch of Coke bottles to a gas station to trade the refund in for a few gallons.