"Indeed. That sounds like a small fortune in 1955 dollars. What did the average car cost then?"
On another site where folks were ranting about how short lived appliances are today, and why we cant buy a good one.
I told them about the Deepfreeze brand freezer we bought in 1948. It's a plain looking little 12CF chest type model that cost $425 in 1948 about 1/2 the price of a new 1948 car. The refrigeration part has never given a moments trouble in 60+ years, although I have replaced lid seal and hinges / latch. Using an inflation calculator I determined that would be almost $4000 today. I asked these guys, How many of you would pay $4000 for this little freezer if you saw it in the local big box store . Not many I bet.
I told them, that I suspect the reason we cant buy a good one anymore is that we walked past the good ones for too many years to buy cheaper priced junk, to the point that all anyone builds or sells anymore is low priced junk.
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