Originally Posted by
spiker
This is 1971 so $2.00 is more than minimum wage at the time. Bummer for him 'cause all we had between us was less than 50 cents. Took it & told us not to come back. So we didn't...
$2 then would be a little over $10 today. You got a good deal for 50 cents($2.60 today), and unlike the time I paid a lawn mower repair shop $5 ($32 today) to sharpen a mower blade, back in the late 60's, that took all of 30 to 45 seconds to do. Needless to say, I bought my own bench grinder afterwards.