[78-L] Talking Machine News - Those were the days !

[Mike Harkin]

--- On Sun, 2/28/10, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Talking Machine News - Those were the days !
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 7:42 AM
> RUSSELL BARNES wrote:
> > If Only !
> > 
> > --- On Sun, 28/2/10, Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > From: Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>
> > Subject: [78-L] Talking Machine News - Those were the
> days !
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Sunday, 28 February, 2010, 15:11
> > 
> > 
> > Just read an advert in the UK July 1907 'Talking
> Machine News'. At 
> > about $1 each.
> > 
> > Why wait: Go for it!
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> Wasn't the exchange rate back then four dollars to the
> pound? If so, it 
> would have cost around three bucks.
> 
>       Julian Vein

$4.80, if I recall my researches correctly.  And, of course, the dollar and the pound would buy a lot more, which was good because there were a lot fewer of them in your pay packet!

Mike in Plovdiv
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