Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty

[phillymatt53]

Westinghouse 1957
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And, as Spokesman Betty Furness always says:
You Can Be SURE...... If It's Westinghouse!

 

[Ultramatic]

Philco 1960

 

[Ultramatic]

Victrola 1923

 

[ea56]

Victrola 1923
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WOW, $350.00 in 1923 for a Victrola was a helluva lot of do-ray-me! You could buy a Ford Model T for about $550.00 . When I was a teenager the woman that was like a second mother to me had an RCA Victor Victrola almost identical to the one in the ad along with a couple of 78 albums of Enrico Caruso records. It had belonged to her parents, who I believe received it as a wedding gift when they were married in the early 1920’s. The small doors at the top were for the speakers and by opening and closing them partially you could control the volume.

Eddie

 

[phillymatt53]

WOW, $350.00 in 1923 for a Victrola was a helluva lot of do-ray-me! You could buy a Ford Model T for about $550.00 . When I was a teenager the woman that was like a second mother to me had an RCA Victor Victrola almost identical to the one in the ad along with a couple of 78 albums of Enrico Caruso records. It had belonged to her parents, who I believe received it as a wedding gift when they were married in the early 1920’s. The small doors at the top were for the speakers and by opening and closing them partially you could control the volume.

Eddie

Well Eddie, look at it this way......it's not surprising....
Remember when flat screen tv's first came out?...... costing thousands of dollars!
Or the first Color Tv's..... $5-600 bucks a pop.

Whenever something NEW comes available, it's that greedy grab that manufacturers seek, in hopes that society will bite the bait.

 

[circlew]

The Victrola looks a lot like the one we have at our historical society museum.

New items are expensive partly to recoup the cost of the research and development that went into them.

 

[phillymatt53]

The Victrola looks a lot like the one we have at our historical society museum.

New items are expensive partly to recoup the cost of the research and development that went into them.

Yes, I was going to mention that, thanks.
Add into that, advertizing.