My, how things have changed!

[SCBoy]

Was going through some of my Dad's things and I found this. Not sure if you can read it in the photos, but the price tag says: JM Fields...$.89! JM Fields was a store similar to Wal-Mart, but there hasn't been one in our town since the late 60's. Seems cheap until I remember that I was working for $1.56/hour!

 

[Krell1]

I guess you have to look at these old prices and think about what salaries were at the time. When I was shooting competitive bullseye in the mid 60's and 70's I was paying a buck a box. Now you can't even find any. Times have changed.

 

[arjay]

I remember buying a box at a time from k mart in the 70s,never felt rich enough to buy a whole brick!

 

[Rocksprings]

22s

I remember a few years ago a box of 22 shorts was 50 cents..Well maybe more than a few years.

 

[BC38]

Yup, I can remember in the early 70's the CCI mini mags that are now $12 a 100 round box were $1.29
Just like my dad could remember 5 cent bottles of Coke and 3 cent candybars

 

[gwpercle]

I have a box just like that, 1/2 full of 22 LONGS...
When I get home I'll check the Price Tag.
I do miss price tags....now , after you buy something, years later you can't look at it and marvel at how cheap it was back in the good old day's.

Gary

 

[Mr Pokeyman]

We had a JM Fields in York, Pa back in the 70's. It was along interstate 30 and was indeed similar to Walmart. The manager allowed us to use the store during the night for canine training. We would have a guy go inside and hide. Then we went in and let the dogs find them. I wonder what happened to Fields since they always seemed to have a lot of business.

 

[daddy bear]

Going back to the mid fifties, I recall buying HV HP ammo for $5.00 per brick. Shorts, preferred by Dad, at 35-39 cents per box of 50.

Even farther back, I was eight when WWII ended. There were few consumer goods available. Ammo was available for protecting farms and ranches from predators. Supply was short. I recall stopping by the hardware with Mom and sometimes there was no ammo., I recall buying ammo by the round and getting ten. When we got a half box, we had hit the mother lode. Also, unlike the present shortage, there was no price gouging. It was not only considered unpatriotic, but it was unlawful.

I always compare prices back in the good old days with the wages. When my bride of fifty-nine years (I know, young marriages are not supposed to work out well) and I married, gasoline was from 19 to 25 cents. We were both enrolled as students and depending on class schedules, we worked a combined sixty to seventy hours per week at $1.00 per hour or $70 per week before taxes. (yes, everyone paid some tax back then). Compare that to our retirement incomes today and gas at $4.00 is a bargain.

I couldn't afford a Mountie in '58 @ $65 MSRP. Through the boss's wholesale account, I bought one for cousin for $48.??. Still could not afford one as we had tuitions to pay every semester.

I could keep going. Refined, all pricing is relative to earnings.

Jack