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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: G0ALY on May 12, 2007, 07:40:17 PM
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Howdy all, I just picked up a huge stack of old 1950s & 60s gun magazines at an estate auction. I thought some of you might enjoy reading about the guns that were for sale fifty years ago.
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There could be over a hundred of these magazines… Lots of bathroom reading! I also picked up some WWII US uniform pieces and a German dress belt buckle at the sale.
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Woah i'd like that PTRD!
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I'd love a chauchat for a trusty piece of home protection. :D
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Nice:aok
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Wish they still sold for those prices.
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Ahh man, those were the days :) Although, I'd have spent my money on a surplus Corsair or P-38 if it could have been had.
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Holy jesus... [Moves folder in front of crotch] My lord...
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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
I'd love a chauchat for a trusty piece of home protection. :D
Maybe if you were lucky, the thieves would steal it :D
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Something tells me the police wouldn't be thrilled with a bunch of Boys
55 caliber AT rifles out there. Heck, you'd probably have to line up about
10 vests to stop one. :p
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the rumors are true, the world really was different then.
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Interesting, like the old car ads in the restroom at Famous Dave's barbecue. (Four-Wheel Brakes! Soon Every Car Will Have Them!)
Dunno about Ye Old Hunter -- he seems way too happy about his drooping shooter.
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M3 grease guns... $49.00
Those were the days.. even in the 60's I was buying 7mm mausers for $20 ammos was sold by the pound.
You could buy a 20 mm semi auto lahti or other cannon for $75.00
Kids brought their rifles to school and the NRA taught gun saftey and the school bussed us to the range.
course with all the senseless school shootings by cannon and machine gun in the fifties and sixties....
That all had to change and now we have "gun free zones" where no one is ever shot.
lazs
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Originally posted by Xargos
Wish they still sold for those prices.
Keep in mind that those prices were pretty darn high for that time period. In the 50's your house payment would have been less than $75 to $100.00 for a NICE house.
When I moved my Mom out of her old house I ran across some very old papers. The payment on a half acre with a 1800 Square foot house (big then) with a separate fully enclosed garage was only $55.00 on a 30 year mortgage.
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Cool ads. It's enough to make me cry, though. It makes me wonder what ads from 2007 will look like to enthusiasts in about 50 or 60 years.
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Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
I'd love a chauchat for a trusty piece of home protection. :D
:rofl :aok
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wow! i remember a department store had enfields in the very late 80s for $69
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Originally posted by VOR
Cool ads. It's enough to make me cry, though. It makes me wonder what ads from 2007 will look like to enthusiasts in about 50 or 60 years.
In 50 or 60 years, pictures of guns will be treated worse then having child porn. If your caught with a picture of a gun in the future you'll spend the rest of your life in prison.
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:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by VOR
:rolleyes:
:D
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What struck me was the price of the 9mm parabellum ammo in the Luger and P-38 ads. $9.50 for 100 rounds! There must not have been a lot floating around at the time. Using a "today's dollars" converter I found on the Internet that comes out to: $61.41 or about $30 per box of 50 compared to $9 per box today.
Highly collectable pieces like the Luger were still a good deal then by comparison, especially if all matching. The same applies to the K98k if all matching and even with a bolt mismatch. In fact, most I spot checked were not bad deals, though not typically GREAT deals.
http://www.1soft.com/todaysdollars.htm
Charon
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Good posts about dollars then and now. Hard to get accurate perspective about such comparisons. Right after WWII it was a big deal to earn $100 a week or more than $5,000 a year.
Even in the 1960s, I was appalled that some houses cost more than $15,000. When we had to pay almost $19,000 for our first house, I was nearly in shock.
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Originally posted by Halo
Good posts about dollars then and now. Hard to get accurate perspective about such comparisons. Right after WWII it was a big deal to earn $100 a week or more than $5,000 a year.
Even in the 1960s, I was appalled that some houses cost more than $15,000. When we had to pay almost $19,000 for our first house, I was nearly in shock.
Our 1966 $17K starter home in NJ sold for $324K in 2005..talk about
sticker shock :)
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Yeah, the sad thing is that necessities seem designed to suck up every disposable piece of income each generation has, at least the so-called "average" wages.
Yet the curve keeps rising, each goodie like HD TV becoming the latest minimum acceptable "necessity."
Starting out, we were so envious of people who had paid-off mortgages and owned their own houses free and clear. Made a huge difference in the monthly budget whether you had a mortgage payment, let alone usurious interest on credit cards.
Our house also has appreciated about tenfold since we bought it 35 years ago. Catch is, unless moving to a lower cost of living area, selling it would not buy a comparable house because of ridiculous real estate agent commissions and general housing parasite costs.
Reading the real estate advice columns in the newspaper is a good way to lose sleep if you have to sell or buy a house. Don't see how the process could get much more confusing and complicated. As others have mentioned, slavery is still alive and well in capitalism -- we just call it mortgages, or rent, or whatever it takes just to be able to earn a living.
But nothing new about that. Most societies throughout history require a lot of work just to survive.
We'll probably stay in our house until we exit feet first. The neighborhood has changed a lot but fortunately it's still a nice place to live.
Oh yeah, the main thread topic, guns then and now. Guns are probably one of the best investments and often also come with guarantees better than practically any other commodity.
For example, I bought a Ruger .357 Single-Six used. Was keyholing and having an ejection problem. Ruger refurbished it, including new barrel, FREE with my only cost shipping to Ruger. Let's see any other industry match that kind of lifetime warranty!
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Originally posted by lazs2
M3 grease guns... $49.00
Those were the days.. even in the 60's I was buying 7mm mausers for $20 ammos was sold by the pound.
You could buy a 20 mm semi auto lahti or other cannon for $75.00
Kids brought their rifles to school and the NRA taught gun saftey and the school bussed us to the range.
course with all the senseless school shootings by cannon and machine gun in the fifties and sixties....
That all had to change and now we have "gun free zones" where no one is ever shot.
lazs
Beautiful. :aok