Going thu some old gun reciepts,from JIMMY`S SPORT SHOP Canon City,Co.2/8/74 (S&W mdl.60 ser.# R99284 $125.00 still have it.
11/21/70 (mdl.60 R218880 $110.00
11/21/70 (mdl.15 ser.#K992796 $97.00
8/15/70 (K38 ser.#K933016
GART BROS.Denver
12/26/70 (COLT S.A.ser.#55571 $200.00
9/10/70 (COLT 45 Auto 225.00
3/30/71 (S&W mdl.39 ser.#A142112 &110.00
Swanson Firearms Denver
9/972 (S&W mdl.14 ser.#1K96140 $115.00
6/24/72 (S&W mdl.15 2in.nikle ser.#1K25784 $122.00
4/10/71 (S&W mdl.36 ser.#6J4404 $92.00
And my favorite one
PARKER CREDIT JEWERY 7 SPORTING GOODS,LEADVILLE,CO.
5/22 62 S&W mdl.28,4in.ser.# S203259 $50.00
Still have a lot of reciepts.
Dick

Isn't it fun going through old receipts and wishing you could buy the equivalent guns for the same price today.

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SWCA1967 SWHF244

New Winchester Model 94, 1956, $65.00
New Remington Model 721 300 H&H Mag and a box of shells. 1957, $81.00
New S&W Model 10 1966. $60.00
New S&W Model 58 and a box of shells. 1967, $81.00 because I couldn't afford a Combat Magnum at $125.00

I had to pay the big bucks:

New S&W Model 60 $127 (5/12/75)
New S&W Model 17 8-3/8" $191.80 (5/27/80)

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US Army '72-'95

What was a gallon of gas in 1970? 32 cents?

Iggy, I bought my model 94 the same time you did, for the same amount!
If we could back in time and know what we know now, we all would be rich.
I have zero talents, I never have been exceptional at anything. However it seems that every gun and car that turned me on from the late 40s up through the late 50s when I was growing up, became a sought after classic! If a guy had a good old safe, weather proof barn and bought old cars, pickups and guns he would have the finest ira or 401k in the world today! Not only that, but it would be tax free if you kept a low profile! I remember wanting to buy a beautifull 40 ford coup for $200s, I once started to buy a beautifull 56 t-brid with both tops for $1,200s! My dad talked me out of it, asking where I was going to haul my stuff as I was liveing on the road back then. I remember a tip top shape model A coup I was going to buy for $200s, but no way to get it to wisconsin from louisanna, as I had a company truck that I was towing my car with. I think the biggest deal I passed on was about a late 1930s or 40s mercedes coup in west virginnia for $800s. The only other one I seen was a picture in playboy advertisement for a sound system they had put in arlo gutherys car that looked identical.
I called them all right years ago, but today I dont see one car out there that I get the same feeling about!

S&W M/36 3"HB $110.00 in 1976, M/29-2 6 1/2" Blue $240.00. The 29 was really hard to find as the Dirty Harry movie had just come out the year before, you took what you could find and were glad to get it. Every dealer at the gun show had Highway Patrolmen N.I.B. on their table for $150.00 and could not give them away, they were S&W's red headed step child at the time.

I paid $ 153 for a model 60 no dash and $ 302.00 for a nickle 29-2. I didn't have any money then; the total of those two guns was two weeks pay (at that time), and I had to save for months to get them. Still have both, by the way. Bill

I don't buy new guns, but I can buy good used S&Ws now much easier than I could back in those days. I bet that in 1970 an average school teacher in Georgia didn't bring home $375 per month after taxes. And a new Model 15 was $97? No way a teacher could afford one. Even a used one at $50 would have been a luxury.

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Yep. As a first-year high school English teacher in 1970, my annual salary (before taxes) was $5,800. I purchased my first Smith revolver that year, too, an ANIB Model 48 in 8 3/8, for $97 with a tooled leather holster and belt.

2 Colt Match Targets @ $135.00 each. That was a fortune in 1973. Wish I had forgone the SS Chevelle and bought all I could at the time. I do have one still NIB.

My father in law gave me a Ruger standard pistol 22lr. (before mark I) The box is marked $87.50. 1974.

1970 with a top Federal LEO agency, salary was $8000 per year. Don't go very far!

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Martin Co,FLA(finally made it)

Prices will always differ from state to state but when I lived in NC, I bought a Series 70 MkIV 45 Auto for $159.95 in late 1973.

That same year I bought a Ruger 45 ACP/45 Colt (interchangeable cylinders) with 4 5/8" barrel, Serial number 00075(I think) for $79.00..the old 3-screw Ruger you pay a mint for today.

Anyone care to join me in a few bars of "Precious Memories"?

June 1973--Mdl 66 no dash $149
Sept 1972--Mdl 60 no dash $120
Dec 1971--Mdl 29-2 $195

Sometime around mid 1975--Pre Mdl 26 used $150

I still have the Mdl 66.

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U.S.A.F---E-7--Retired

Typical value increase in classic handguns = 10X
Typical value increase in classic automobiles = 12X
Typical value increase in Teacher's impact upon children: PRICELESS!

Pretty sure you could find it for 20 cents if you shopped. Gas shortage was a couple of years down the road.

unfortunately what our .gov has done to our dollar is criminal.

$100 in 1970 is about $550 in 2009 dollars.

Mod. 15-3 4 inch 7/1971 $97.50 (P&R)

Mod. 36 no dash 2 inch 1974 $96.00 (Pinned)


Mod. 66-1 4 inch 1979 $165.00 (P&R)

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Lost in the 50s

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S&W Model 29, six inch, blue, in presentation box, spankin' new, $176.00. I had just put on SSgt stripes at Malmstrom Airplane Patch. Still, it was a big chunk of money...

I bought this 3-screw Ruger .45 Colt without the ACP cylinder, but with a box of ammo, for $100 including tax in late 1973. Ruger manufactured only a few of the Old Model revolvers in .45 Colt before they went to the New Model. I used this one for deer hunting for years, and my nephew "keeps it for me" and hunts deer with it now. It got me started hand loading for my revolvers. Yep, "Precious Memories" in more ways than just prices.


pwhphd, thanks. We hope we have a positive impact now and then . . . . . . . . . . Did you ever find a Model 18?

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