[Milsurplus] Maybe the Good Old Days Weren't

[Peter Gottlieb]

Looking through the Fair Radio warehouses, it seems a lot of that stuff is still 
there.

For me, it went from unaffordable as a kid to "I'm not paying that!" when I grew 
up a little.  Fair was good for inexpensive items which weren't so mainline, 
stuff which could be modified into something else or as a source of valuable 
parts.  To this day, when visiting Fair, I find myself buying specific pieces of 
interest and not popular (and thus costly) full sets.

Peter


On 1/18/2016 8:50 PM, Joe Connor via Milsurplus wrote:
> Those of us of a certain age pine for the good ol' days when WWII surplus 
> equipment was plentiful and cheap. I was looking through some old issues of 
> Radio-TV News and found something that surprised me.
>
> In 1959, Fair Radio was advertising a BC-779 receiver for $69.95 and the 
> associated power supply for $14.95. Who among us wouldn't jump at a BC-779 and 
> power supply for those prices? Yep, those were the good ol' days.
>
> Then I used an inflation calculator: $69.95 in 1959 dollars equals $570.50 and 
> $14.95 equals $121.93 in today's dollars. In other words, that rig cost 
> $692.43 in current dollars. If I saw one at a hamfest next summer for nearly 
> $700, I'd walk on by.
>
> See what I mean? Maybe the good ol' days weren't as good as we remember them.
>
>
>         Joe Connor
>
>
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