[ARC5] Prices in "ye goode olde dayes"

[Geoff]

I remember around 1958 my dad telling me I better be taking home $100 a week 
if I wanted to get married.

By late 1964 I was taking home enough to buy a 64 GTO convertible for cash, 
a used Drake 2B, 2BQ, HT-37, 70' of Rohn 25G, a 3 el KW rated Hi Gain 
tribander, rotator etc. at the hilltop late 19th century home I was renting 
the lower half of in historic Lexington MA.  Oh yeah, I also had a 57 Chevy 
convertible in good condition as a winter beater or when the GTO was apart 
for some serious engine mods. Sure wish I had those cars now.

This was working for National Radio for a year as a Jr tech fresh out of the 
Navy, a notoriously cheap outfit but I also had the drive to be moonlighting 
on the side fixing other peoples radios.

I also quickly advanced at National and by 1966 was Service Manager at just 
short of my 26th birthday. Money was a lot better and by May 67 I had a 
house on 8 acres an hour commute away in NH and a wife. Still did 
moonlighting at 2 area dealers and by the time I left National in 69 I had 
some decent test equipment so I could work at home in NH or when I moved to 
Chicago in 70 to take on a more challenging job for the NH company I joined 
after National....Sanders Associates for those who may have heard of that 
defense contractor.

I have very little patience with those who want things but dont have the 
drive to better themselves to get them and then are forever whining about it 
for the next 50 or so years. I was still just a tech but was soon doing 
engineering work and didnt get the wallpaper until 20 years later.


Carl


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil" <neilb at ihug.co.nz>
To: "arc5" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Prices in "ye goode olde dayes"


>> A little high for the DX-35. The price in 1957 was $56.95
>
> In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was earning $1.25 an hour for a 5-day
> week, according to the testimony of his boss, Roy Truly:
>
> http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/russ/testimony/truly1.htm
>
> That price of $56.95 for the DX-35 probably represented a little more
> than a week's wages for an unskilled worker such as Oswald.
>
> 73 de Neil ZL1ANM
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