Looks familiar. I think I remember a segment in Transworld mag on the Old School Feed.
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Originally Posted by classic510
dam i wish boards were cheap like they were back then
Cheap? That board, as set up on the cover shot, would've been about $75-$80, in 1976 dollars. For the same number of hours of work at minimum wage required to buy that board back then, at today's minimum wage you'd be able to afford a $240 setup...
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Cheap? That board, as set up on the cover shot, would've been about $75-$80, in 1976 dollars. For the same number of hours of work at minimum wage required to buy that board back then, at today's minimum wage you'd be able to afford a $240 setup...
i mean the exact same amount of money not like that
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like i wish a deck like that wasnt hella money now i wish it was the same price as it was back then
And gas was 59¢ a gallon, you could buy a new car for less than $4000, a house for less than $40,000, etc. But the average worker made only $16,000 a year, and if you worked for minimum wage, you only got $100 a week, BEFORE taxes. It only looks cheaper because you're looking at it from a 33-years-of-inflation-with-corresponding-rise-in-wages point of view...
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And gas was 59¢ a gallon, you could buy a new car for less than $4000, a house for less than $40,000, etc. But the average worker made only $16,000 a year, and if you worked for minimum wage, you only got $100 a week, BEFORE taxes. It only looks cheaper because you're looking at it from a 33-years-of-inflation-with-corresponding-rise-in-wages point of view...
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No doubt that was a little harsh my friend
That wasn't intended to be harsh at all. The "cheaper price" of skateboards, as well as many other things back then, is simply an illusion. You can't say something was "cheaper" or "more expensive" without taking into account what people were earning, which back then was on average about 1/3 of what people doing the same work earn today.
Besides, that deck isn't even comparable to an average deck today. That was a flat slab of solid oak, with a glued-on wedge for a kicktail, which is what the majority of decks were at that time. Much cheaper and less labor intensive to produce than a laminated maple deck. Nothing the average jr high woodshop student couldn't make in hour (and many of us did just that), and even today would only cost about $10 for materials. A few months after that issue of SkateBoarder came out, maple decks started becoming the standard, and deck prices nearly doubled (and we still didn't have concave or nose kicks). So 6 months later, an average board would've been nearly $100, not much cheaper than what an average board costs today, and that's if you didn't count for inflation.
Those of us who had to work at McDonald's or a gas station for $2.50 an hour after school back in the 70s in order to buy a board didn't think $75 was cheap at all...
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