I like the old ads.

[SaxonPig]

 

[mag1911]

So do I.

 

[Mike Irwin]

Good lord, $32.50 around 1950.

That's about $320 today...

Price of guns has FAR outpaced inflation.

 

[Magnum Wheel Man]

got a couple I've collected myself...

I saw this add & just had to have one ( sorry... not a revolver )

 

[tekarra]

I like the old ads as well. Times were better then.

 

[JERRYS.]

I still remember (when I was too young to buy a gun) the charter bulldog .44 spl ads, muzzle view, one pound of protection....

 

[bbqbob51]

I really like the old ads, especially the Iver Johnson ones. Can you imagine a firearm company running an ad these days that shows a small child in bed and playing with one of their guns. It's such a bad concept, it's good.

 

[James K]

I would use a 20-1 ratio for values c. 1950. Gas was $.20 a gallon (OK, 19.9 cents), a Coke was a nickel, and a hamburger $.15. That would "translate" the $32.50 S&W to $650 today, which is not too far off.

Jim

 

[Mike Irwin]

I was going with the Dept. Of Commerce inflation calculator.

 

[rmocarsky]

Monkey wards

I remember as a kid looking at Montgomery Wards catalogues and salivating ovr the Ruger .44 mag carbine.

Mail order!

Rmocarsky

 

[SaxonPig]

I bought a 1903 Springfield at Woolworth's for $69.95.

 

[BumbleBug]

I want one...

 

[Kev]

I always live the old Sears Robuck catalogs too..
I'll post some in a few, but here is some S&W for ya
Where's my time machine when I need it?

 

[Bezoar]

No the thing is, if a company put out an ad that had say " the smart mans way to stop crime", well theyd get sued by those liberals for promoting self defense.

 

[5thShock]

 

[Magnum Wheel Man]

Ok... a couple more...

 

[Magnum Wheel Man]

a couple more...

 

[g.willikers]

Notice how much more literate and descriptive the ads were back then?

Yeah, the 20x rate of inflation sounds more like it.
Lots of folks only earned about $35 to $50 per week in 1950s.
Depending on government claims about inflation is guaranteed to be misleading.

 

[Magnum Wheel Man]

another couple more...

 

[JERRYS.]

g.willikers, not only did society speak and write in a more literate fashion, it was not considered shameful to advocate carrying a handgun on your person or in your car. my how the laws have come against us since then huh?