Remember when you could buy.....

Back in 1937, you could get a new Winchester M70 for $67.50, or a Smith & Wesson registered .357 Magnum for $60. A Holland & Holland Royal double rifle was 150 pounds sterling, or roughly $750 without taxes or duties. At the same time, gold was worth $35/oz., and if you were making $15 a week, you had a pretty good job, for those that had a job at all during the Great Depression.

It all sounds cheap, but it's all relative to the value of the dollar at the time.
 
Can't remember the year, but I still have a full box of 50 CIL bullets- .257, 86gr, SP for my old 25/20 that I paid a whopping $1.10.
Mind you, back in the day, even $1.10 seemed expensive.
 
On the subject of gas. I remember when we lived in NE Ontario when I was a kid in the 50's, Dad would send me to the local gas station with a gallon can and a Quarter (.25 cents) to get gas for the lawn mower, I would come home with the can full.
The day everything was switched to metric #2 gas in Midland was .23.2 cents per litre.
 
porpoise said:
20 years ago a model 70 was 700 dollars. a marlin 336 750 dollars. a 700 was 600 dollars. seems to me the prices are much lower in real dollars.
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Were those the solid gold models or something? $450 would be pushing it 20 years ago.
 
On the subject of gas. I remember when we lived in NE Ontario when I was a kid in the 50's, Dad would send me to the local gas station with a gallon can and a Quarter (.25 cents) to get gas for the lawn mower, I would come home with the can full.
The day everything was switched to metric #2 gas in Midland was .23.2 cents per litre.
 
How about chocolate bars that came in two sizes, small $.05, large $.10 .... Saturday matinees for kids at small town theatres, $.25 would get you in, and leave enough for a small candy bar and drink.
 
I remember getting a full chocolate bar or bag of chips for .10 and a coke for .15 for a grand total of a quarter. Getting a quarter from my grandmother then (early sixties) was a big deal. The quarter then was real silver (made a tinggg when you flipped it with your thumb). Wish I'd have kept a few of those.
 
Anyone remember what a box of .22s went for? I'm thinking for under a buck you could buy a box of whiz bangs.
 
Dating myself ... but

A brand new Firebird HO 350 cu.in/325 HP - 4 gear ... ordered & delivered for $ 3206.00 all in. Gas (Sunoco 260) at 31 cents/gallon.
A round of Trap or Skeet at the local Club was $ 1.00 a box of AA's $ 2.25, but a case (500) (not a flat) was available for $38.
A new S&W Mod. 29 in a presentation case $ 292 ... a new Browning SxS (BSS) for 237.50.
A new 650 Triumph Bonneville $ 1050. Bulk 4831 ( there was no "H" then $1.00 a pound in bulk.

But then, wages weren't quite what they are today either.
 
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