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Showed my wife the advert - she worked at the local K-mart service desk from age 14 until after we married, and remembers well selling rifles etc., with next to no questions asked!
What is also interesting - check out the price of the little colour TV!
One small advert shows the impact overseas/Chinese manufacturing has had on prices of consumer goods over the last 30-40 years. Take a walk through any discount electrical retailer and see what the same $$ amount buys you for a flat screen TV today - without even factoring in currency inflation over that time frame.
Same applies to telescopes - forty eight years ago as a fourteen year old my dream of owing a 6" refractor was just that - a dream. I never imagined as a regular wage slave having affordable 20" reflectors etc. in my back yard.
The "Good Old Days" were not always that good!
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