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Times have sure changed

nashflashnashflash Member Posts: 727 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I was looking through a 1955 Gun Annual that I am selling and saw a new Colt Government Model in nickle for $71.05 . It's amazing what can happen in 47 years isn't it ?
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yup, its called inflation. I remember back when I was little, in the late 80's early 90's, you could buy a VHS tape for $25, now you can get the at wal-mart and their only $4.99.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know if any of you had one of these stores in your town or not. At the tender age of 17 I worked for Standard Grocery Store. It was owned by the National Tea Co. I was a stock clerk there. On breaks my buddies and I would opt for a 16oz. bottled Coke, and two Hostess cakes or pies. The grand total for the break was .35. Times hae changed and you know what? In thirty years we'll look back at today and remark, "Man things were sure different then." If God tarries that long.
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  • punchiepunchie Member Posts: 2,792 ✭
    edited November -1
    Hard for us to realize that these are the 'Good Old Days' for our children/grandchildren isn't it?

    AN ARMED SOCIETY IS A POLITE SOCIETY
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  • BikerBoiBikerBoi Member Posts: 38 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Once again not to be a smart * but leeblackman inflation means that the value of money goes down so how did the price come down if the value of the money also went down.. that would mean that the movies value went down also!

    Guns arent dangerous! Im dangerous!
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    punchie, the saddest part of your comment is the realization that for our grandchildren, the price of firearms may be the least of their nostalgia for 'the good old days' when private individuals were even allowed to purchase / posess handguns, or indeed, any firearms.
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  • BikerBoiBikerBoi Member Posts: 38 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yea im with u Iconoclast cause im 13 and i dont want gun control to be stoppin me from havin a handgun or a rifle or any knd of gun... it makes me sad to think i may not be able to have any guns when i grow up

    Guns arent dangerous! Im dangerous!
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  • LagoLago Member Posts: 464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In 1958, at age 16, I bought my first rifle thru Sears mail order. Still have that .22 bolt action also.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,510 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I took my wife and sons to a movie the other night....4 tickets, 2 large popcorns, 3 large sodas...39.00

    Mt sons were amazed when I told them about going to the movies as a kid. Double feature, tons of cartoons etc. Ticket, popcorn, coke and a bag of candy used to set me back 1.00.




    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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  • BikerBoiBikerBoi Member Posts: 38 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My dad tells me about times when he was a kid that he used to get candy bars for nickles... i wish it were so now... they're about a dollar now!

    Guns arent dangerous! Im dangerous!
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  • nashflashnashflash Member Posts: 727 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to fill up my 67 GTO , buy a little beer from the local bootlegger a burger and fries from the Dairy Queen and still have change left from a $20.00 . Now the doctor put me on a diet so I can't do the burgers and fries , don't drink beer anymore and $20.00 won't even start to think about fillin up my Ford pickup.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    BB, now I understand (& forgive this once) the "Cool Site" thread. When I was your age, I could buy two really good comic books and what would be now a 'king-size' candy bar for a quarter! But as punchie noted, you will someday be reciting the prices of today's goods to your equally astonished children! The only thing that has gone down in price in the past (mumble, mumble) years has been electronics such as calculators & computers.



    Edited by - Iconoclast on 07/31/2002 16:23:10
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Youth is Wasted on the Young !

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Things are still cheaper today then they were back then. Just think how long it took a person to work to pay for that $71.05 pistol.

    AlleninAlaska

    Free men are not equal and equal men are not free
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Movie 15 cents, coke 5 cents SloPoke 5 cents.

    Am I old or what?

    You can buy a large color TV now for much less than a small black and white cost in the early 50's.

    A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Dateline 1969. A 7 year old boy returns home from the Li'l General convienence store with his bagful of various candies, (maryjanes, squirrelnut zippers, jawbreakers, sixlets, etc.) All he had to do to purchase these items was to wait for Dad to give him that SHINY LITTLE DIME on saturday morning. I would eat my candy and watch "The Rat Patrol" and "The Monkies" on a 12" black and white TV. God those were the days!!
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    BikerBoi-
    When it comes to electronics, lots of things that are dirt cheap now were big ticket items back then. In the early '80's a VCR ran you $1000.00 or more. I don't remember exactly how much camcorders were, but they were also big time expensive. A standard pocket calculator was about $150.00 and plain jane digital watches were over $100.00.

    I'm wondering what items we consider hi-tech now will go this route soon. Maybe high end cell phones for less than $10.00?
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Txs, I was privileged (?) to use one of the first electronic calculators. Man, it would add, subtract, multiply and divide . . . all in the twinkling of an eye and it only cost $700! My first 80386-based home PC with a huge 10MB hard drive, only $6,000. I agree, cell phones will soon become so ubiquitous that they will be virtual freebies and companies will be offering minutes for as little or less than conventional land lines today.
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  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now that I'm growen, I wish I could act like a child, and get away with it.
    TOOLS
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  • 218Beekeep218Beekeep Member Posts: 3,033
    edited November -1
    Interstate,I remember those "penny candies"
    (a penny apiece)maryjanes and such.
    My mother used to talk about when she got
    them for a penny a bag.Even when she
    would go on gator hunts,or fishin` trips
    with my dad,after they got married,
    my dad(23)would buy the suger,coffie,food etc.,
    a case of salt,to roll the gator hides in,
    she would get a bag of penny candies.
    You see,she was goin` on 14

    .218
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:
    Once again not to be a smart * but leeblackman inflation means that the value of money goes down so how did the price come down if the value of the money also went down.. that would mean that the movies value went down also!

    Guns arent dangerous! Im dangerous!


    Its a joke, I was being sarcastic as to the growth of technology. Think about it a minute, back in the day VHS's were expensive cause they were fairly new, now everythings going to DVD so they are super cheap.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You have to understand I have a sick and twisted since of humor.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    .....10 cent Cokes (in bottles) chilled in a cooler with circulating water....slide the bottles through a series of tracks then they came out the locking mechanism when your money went through....we sometimes cheated and removed the bottle caps, dropped a straw into each bottle and sipped out the contents.

    19 cent gallon gas.....during the "Gas Wars"......
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I'm a whole year younger than interstate. I can remember going to the corner store in the early 70's with a quarter in my pocket. A Nestle' crunch bar, Hershy bar, or Necco wafers were .05 cents. Most of the rest were a dime. A 10 ounce bottle of coke was .20 cents. When you finished you took the bottle back in and got a nickle back. The bottle was the heavy green glass refillable kind. The cooler was one of the big red ones with water in it.

    Lee, that comment about being "real little" in the 80's or early 90's, really makes a guy feel alot older than he should. Thanks!!!LOL

    Woods
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    Times have indeed changed; I can remember ads for a Lahati recoilless anti-tank cannon (37MM). Can't remember the exact price but memory tells me it was all of $19.95. Best part is that the ads were on the back of COMIC BOOKS!!!!!

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    BikeBoi,
    Me thinks by the comments made to Leeblackman and your mention of items being cheaper back in the early 80's you are not indeed a 13 yr old. You say you're 13. I really don't buy that. You would have to have an IQ higher than the national debt to come up with some the post you've had at your tender age. Your grasp of economics at your tender age astounds me if you are indeed a 13 year old. A quote from Leeblackman I will use "If I'm wrong correct me........."

    PS Your spelling has taken a strange twist as well. Just a thought.

    Edited by - 96harley on 08/01/2002 10:08:40

    Edited by - 96harley on 08/01/2002 10:10:26
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  • vol fanvol fan Member Posts: 301 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt - we used to do the same thing with those crest-type soft drink machines.

    1975: A Texas Instruments 4-function calculator was $ 125; the top of the line HP scientific calculator was $ 350 (I still have it and it still works, but the one I use at work is a solar-powered freebie). "Computers" were mainframes with punch cards in fortran or cobol.

    Also 1975: Gas was $ 0.25/gal, rent was $ 75 a month; A Whopper, fries, and a coke was $ 1.63, but mostly we got by on $ 0.19 boxes of macoroni and cheese. I bought a new Firebird when I graduated for $4900.Paid $ 125 for my M70 .270.

    Gotta get off of memory lane now, it's too depressing......



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