POD 9-13 Tide contest

[arbilab]

The Tide contest offers a 'washer full of $10 bills', total $10,000, and is dated 1955. A quick trip through the inflation calculator shows that prize value today just over $89,000!

Almost exactly the same time, a TV game show raised eyebrows offering the staggering prize of $64,000 and was almost impossible to win unless the producers primed the contestant with the answers (which they did).

 

[frigilux]

Rick-- Today, they'd have to fill an HE-toploader's 5.7 cu. ft. tub with $10 bills.  I could retire to the south of France, LOL!

 

 

 

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[arbilab]

Your apology account = 999.75 credits.

Conversely the same prize today would be worth just short of $1200. A month's groceries or modest mortgage payment.

Thanks to the Fed for its constitutional mandate shepherding the value of currency. (MEGA-eyeroll).

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

These days your "in the washer prize" is a small packet of liquid Tide or Tide pods...  And NO "Satanic" P&G logo, either...

 

Did I mention your washer is a Hotpoint one-knob Builder's Special from Lowe's? Enjoy your Prize!!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[supersuds]

The Federal Reserve Board isn't mentioned in the Constitution, btw.

Anyway, one of the washer prizes you can select is a Barton. I take it from last year's thread about the Barton washer service manuals that nobody knows of a Barton washer or dryer still in existence? This might be one of the holy grails.

 

[spiralator60]

POD - Tide Contest

Is there any record of who was grand prize winner?

 

[frigilux]

I believe it was this woman.

 

[arbilab]

Eugene, the last accomodation Robert had to make to IE blew my (W98) PM away. It will let me type but not send, java on or off. No harm/no foul mate.