Interesting item on the Bay

conehammer · 05-19-2014, 04:30 AM

It never hurts to keep these prices in perspective. According to a Google search average yearly income in 1923 was approximately $1,300.00, so that would work out to about 65 cents an hour for a 40 hour week. That Luger on the right cost more than a week's salary.... the same with the Bolo Mauser on the left... and you couldn't eat either one.

I've been a programmer nearly my entire life - a profession that didn't even exist back then so to me a loaf of bread would have looked a lot better than a pistol.. I often muse about what I'd be doing for a living 90 years ago, how would I have lived.

Jerry

05-19-2014, 04:30 AM	#2
conehammer User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 116 Thanks: 1 Thanked 55 Times in 21 Posts	It never hurts to keep these prices in perspective. According to a Google search average yearly income in 1923 was approximately $1,300.00, so that would work out to about 65 cents an hour for a 40 hour week. That Luger on the right cost more than a week's salary.... the same with the Bolo Mauser on the left... and you couldn't eat either one. I've been a programmer nearly my entire life - a profession that didn't even exist back then so to me a loaf of bread would have looked a lot better than a pistol.. I often muse about what I'd be doing for a living 90 years ago, how would I have lived. Jerry