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  1. JackOfAllTradesRuss
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    rainhater, I agree, that was a lot of money in 1959 for a car radio. I was still in High School and working nights and weekends at a local ESSO gas station making $ 1.00 an hour, I thought at that time $ 1 an hour was good wages. Two years later I went into the U.S. Air Force for $ 95.00 a Month.
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    Russ, you are so right. Adjusting for inflation, your entry pay into the air force in 1959 would be near $750 in 2013.

    Today, somebody in a combat zone :rolleyes: may be making only a little over $1,100 -- in today's dollars.
     
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    There has to be a wise crack comin' soon.:D Am I right?:p
     
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    :DThanks
     
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  7. I noticed those right off. Those are called General Jumbo wheels and are steel spoked. Made in the 1930s.
     

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    Forget the horse look at the lady with cross had steering, rally trained
     
  9. My Dad picked up Vancouver Sun papaers from this dock as a 1930's paper boy.
     
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    guess its not cross handed after all
     
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    81st and Vermont, Los Angeles

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    Looking north on Vine toward Sunset and Vine.
     
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    Tom Breneman's nightclub at Vine near Sunset in Hollywood circa 1947
     
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    Simon's at Wilshire and Fairfax 1939.
     
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    Hollywood traffic 1956

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  24. Spoke and Bones in their younger years.
     
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