[Hallicrafters] Fw: Re: Old Radio Shack catalogues

[John Saxon]

A very interesting online calculator
is:

http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

Plug in a price and a year, and you get the current price.

For example, in the 1940 Radio Shack calendar we have a S-17
Super Skyrider, with crystals and coils, but no speaker:
1940 price $137.50, speaker $12.00.

Todays price: S-17  $2,259.76   Speaker $197.22

One more:  1956 S-38D $49.95   today $476.88

73,
John
K5ENQ


> --- On Fri, 6/1/12, David C. Hallam> 
> > Date: Friday, June 1, 2012, 12:46 PM
> > I think if you factor in inflation
> > since those catalogs were published, 
> > those prices weren't so great.  Relatively speaking,
> > radios were more 
> > expensive back then.
> > 
> > David
> > KW4DH
> >
>