Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-one

[Ultramatic]

General Electric 1956

 

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RCA Whirlpool 1956

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

AMC 1956

That looks like it would make a great Pic of the Day!

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[Ultramatic]

RCA Victor 1955

 

[circlew]

AMC 1956
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AMC 1956
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I remember seeing AMC (Associated Merchandising Corp.) appliances at Shillito's downtown store. They also sold GE at the time, and even as a kid I thought the AMC models looked cheap in comparison.

 

[circlew]

RCA Victor 1955
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Peter Pan was a show I always looked forward to when I was little. I think I was 4 the first time I saw it.

 

[ea56]

RCA Victor 1955
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Holy Cow! Would you look at the prices of these TV’s, $795 and $895! That was a fortune in 1955! Minimum wage was $0.75 per hr. You could buy a nice used ‘52 Chevy or Ford then for about $500 to $600 in 1955. No wonder my family didn’t have a color TV until 1969.

Eddie

 

[ea56]

Re:#96
I well remember the first time “Peter Pan” was televised in 1955. I was 4 years old and that night my Dad and a new Manitowoc Bottom freezer refrigerator delivered which was just as big a deal as “Peter Pan” on TV.

Eddie

 

[vacerator]

Wow Eddie! TV sets were more expensive then. You were buying a fine piece of furniture and a TV. I remember my cousins 1969 Zenith Danish modern console. Beautiful walnut cabinet with two speakers. I think it cost about $700. My uncle's net pay was $150 per week. I saw him counting with my aunt once. That may have been with overtime.

 

[phillymatt53]

Wow Eddie! TV sets were more expensive then. You were buying a fine piece of furniture and a TV. I remember my cousins 1969 Zenith Danish modern console. Beautiful walnut cabinet with two speakers. I think it cost about $700. My uncle's net pay was $150 per week. I saw him counting with my aunt once. That may have been with overtime.

My first job out of high school in 1971 was a Quality Control Inspector for ITE Imperial Corp.
We manufactured residential and industrial/military circuit breakers up to 2000 amps.
Back then, my take-home pay was about $176.00, but living at home I was able to save enough for my first car, and my first nice stereo system.
Gasoline was 49.9/gal.
Cigs were 0.50 cents
LP records were $5.99
45 rpm records were .69 cents

And I remember crying when Janis Joplin died.

 

[ea56]

In 1971 I was 20 years old and had already been living on my own for a year. I worked for commission and my average weekly take home pay was between $55 to $65 per week,or and average of $60 per week.

My rent was $80.00 per mo. util. incld. and my car payment was $70 per mo., my Kaiser health ins prem. was $9.90 per mo. my phone cost $10 per mo.for a 2 party line. That left me approx $17.25 per week for groceries, gas, cigarettes and other misc. items.

But somehow I always made it and was NEVER behind on any bill and my bank acct. was never overdrawn.

Eddie