Thread Number: 37178  /  Tag: Pre-1950 Vacuum Cleaners
Quality and Inflation 		[Down to Last]

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Post# 397035   8/20/2018 at 18:13 (2,075 days old) by patrick727 (I)        

Today,I found that my Hoover model 700 circa 1926-1929 sold for $79.00 when new.That is $1088.00 today. Lots of money.

Post# 397048 , Reply# 1   8/20/2018 at 22:40 (2,075 days old) by suckolux (Yuba City, CA)        

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Yes, things were very well made, often had to buy used, or rebuilt or on a factory credit plan sometimes, but they lasted a LONG time

Post# 397050 , Reply# 2   8/20/2018 at 23:20 (2,075 days old) by Rivstg1 (colorado springs)        
wow! that really puts perspective

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on the cost of high end or quality from the past

Post# 397057 , Reply# 3   8/21/2018 at 02:29 (2,075 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA)        

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Well inflation calculators don't always tell the whole story. The relative prices of different things are always changing, usually gradually. Also, it was the 20s, the economy was booming, people had money. Likely $79 was even considered a lot of money for a vac then, but they had it.

Post# 397062 , Reply# 4   8/21/2018 at 07:26 (2,075 days old) by kirbyklekter (Concord,Ca.)        
I once saw a story

of how Sears back then, sold washers and dryers with coin boxes on top and all proceeds collected by them went towards your monthly (?) payment. Some appliances were kind of pricey for the average wage earner. Heck a lot of these appliances had recently been invented and were in many cases marketed to the well healed for their "help" to use. My grandparents were paying 25.00 a month rent in Oakland in the mid forties. Paying 79.00 for a Hoover would equal 3 months rent!


Post# 397068 , Reply# 5   8/21/2018 at 13:30 (2,075 days old) by kenkart ()        
My Mother and Dad

 Were married in Dec 1950, they saved all of 1951 to buy a vacuum cleaner and Hi Fi, now think of THIS...They made 50.00 per week, BETWEEN THEM! Mother got a raise in 51 when She took over the Personel Dept of the Lenoir plant Blue Bell, which was the parent company of Wrangler Jeans,I think She went from 25.00 per week to 40 ,and they paid 99.95 for a GE vacuum and 200.00 for a Stromberg Carlson Hi Fi..then in 1952 also they bought a 48 Plymouth for 350.00 , rent was 60.00 a month and they got 20.00 off in the winter for firing the coal fired boiler in the apartment building.Think about living on 50.00 per week!And being able to have a steak EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT!!! Mother said a big T Bone was 1.00!


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