1961 Prices

[Buddy Romines]

When I graduated from High school in 1962, my dad's salary for the week was $62, that was his take home pay.  When I joined the Navy the following September my pay before taxes was $62.50.  Gosh, what a difference 46 years makes..  Also Gasoline at Sampsell's Shell was 24.9 Cents and all my customers thought that was to much.

Buddy...

[49plymouthdotcom]

At least the guy with the 1924 Cadillac is willing to dicker.  :D

[Carla]

Yes, but lets consider a bit of perspective......in those years. my father and uncles paid the then-standard rate of $1.25 per hour, or ten dollars for a regular eight-hour day's work, for low-level workers. That was considered 'a 'fair wage' for unskilled workers.

A journeyman machinist's pay scale,  depending on the nature of the shop where he was working, might  be $3.10 to $3.40/hr.

That $3.40 was the scale, then, in a union shop, anyway......many workers in smaller shops got only $2.50-ish or thereabouts.

There were times when the shop owners counted themselves d*mned lucky to make any net at all, after meeting pay-roll..... : )

cheers

Carla

[Jim Benjaminson]

Just makes you want to cry, doesn't it?

[Bob]

I was given a March 1961 issue of the HMN yesterday, wanted to share this page.

NO such thing as a low mileage Plymouth for 135 dollars today:(:(