"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Nov 3, 6:54?am, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:57:28 -0700, Chuck Gould


The "Cruise Away" Price: $23,500 :-)

Of course $23,500 was a good annual salary in those days.

Certainly an upper management figure. Many people did quite well on
$1000 a month or less back then.



Today the full tank of gas is worth over $500. Some of those old
Silvertons are still running around.- Hide quoted text -

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I think it was about 1972 that my wife and I bought our first house in
Seattle. It was a modest 2-bedroom craftsman style in a middle class
neighborhood adjacent to the University District. We paid just over
half as much as a new 30' Silverton was selling for. (Our mortgage
payment was $115- and we fretted that we would have to stretch to make
that as our apartment rent had only been $90). That has certainly
changed a lot. You could probably buy two new 30' Silvertons for what
that very same house would sell for today.

In 1973 that was 2 years salary for an engineer