[Milsurplus] Maybe the Good Old Days Weren't

[Bruce Gentry]

When I first found out about Fair Radio, G&G, Meshna in 1967, I was in 
high school and made $1.25 an hour working at a TV shop on Saturday 
mornings.  Kids pumping gas or cutting grass got about a dollar an hour 
if they worked lively and got an occasional tip.  If our fathers made 
$8.00 an hour, that was considered outstanding. It took many weeks of 
allowances and $5.00 paychecks to buy a BC-348. Then there was the issue 
of getting it shipped and into the house without my (toxic) parents 
giving me the third degree!  Working full time in the summer of 1968, it 
took over a month and a half to clandestinely divert a portion of my 
paycheck from my parents' weekly seizures and accumulate  $75  to get an 
ARN-6 setup from G&G and Fair radio, almost $600 today.  I  think 
shipping is far more costly in real dollars today, the ARN-6 receiver 
and mount from G&G cost about $1.50 from New York City to Kingsport, 
Tenn. via Railway Express. I don't think you could get it shipped that 
distance by any carrier for $10-12.00 today. I don't even think I could 
get it shipped from New York City to Syracuse for that.

       Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY


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