[AMRadio] 500.00 Rangers

[Brian Carling]

On 28 Aug 2002 at 21:36, W2ZR at aol.com wrote:

> Well, if a new rig is $1500 to $3000, how is a $500 boatanchor
> something "that only the very well off can afford."  My HT-37 set me
> back $495 in 1961 and my HQ-180C was $449 at the same time.  THAT, my
> friend, was expensive! I paid for it by loading freight cars over the
> summer for the princely sum of 75 cents an hour!  That's right!.  I
> worked all week for a gross pay of $30 

Must have been a heck of a long summer that year...  Thirty-one and a half weeks! 
This also assumes that your parents clothed you, fed you and paid the bills!

Grin