Pete;
You forgot about the price of gasoline, which as I recall was about 25 - 30
cents a gallon on average and occasionally there was this phenomenon called
a "gas war" where the price could drop into the teens!! That same gallon of
gas would regularly be over $2 per gallon minimum in today's dollars. The
price of ham rigs today (including Ten Tec) is really quite a bargain.
Reid, K7YX
-----Original Message-----
From: AC5E@aol.com [mailto:AC5E@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:49 AM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] Annotation to prices in perspective
I failed to completely annotate my previous posting. Quoted retail prices
were from the Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, Ms) edition of 5/6/69.
Average salaries are quoted from the financial "section" (quarter page!) of
the same "newspaper."
Big Macs were normally 35 cents - "reduced to 25 cents for graduation."
Hamburgers were reduced to 15 cents from 20. All other items were at their
normal selling prices. A&P and Gordons Market normally sold sirlion at 49
cents, McCaffereys always had chicken at 15 cents or less. New cars were
$2300 and up. Most three BR bath and a halfs were 10 to 12 000, house notes
were around $100 a mo, Doc Graves charged three bux for an office call, five
for a house call, and a room in either of the local hospitals was 18-20
dollars a nite. With all the "scrumptious greens" you could hold. The
normal
cost of a delivery, including the doctors fees, was $600. Caesarians were a
bit more.
And a Collins station would set you back more than the cost of a brand new
Fairlane, or equivalent econobox. But only the local banker could write a
check for a new Collins station. And he was so deaf a new station of any
sort
would have done him no good.
73 Pete AC5E
73 Pete Allen AC5E
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