SHOPPING like it’s 1967!!!
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Here we take a look at an interesting old farm catalog I found. And check out those prices!!!
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I asked the Google machine. Minimum wage was $1.40 in 1967 and corn was around $1.10 a bushel. Sadness was still free.
And the national average yield of corn for 1967 was 80 bu/ac
Yes we all made less but your dollar went a lot further I believe so the better ratio meant our standard of living was higher. However the sixties was a very tremulous decade. Then came the oil crisis of 1973, that is when inflation really kicked in with a dominoes effect.
To be back in the day when farmers could get almost everything they needed at a farm store. What we have these days are hobby farm stores.
My brother and me went to the Fort Wayne TSC a lot in the 60's 70s My wife works there now 😅
In 1967 I turned 11. Got to spend a couple weeks a year with grandparents at the farm in Nebraska. My favorite stores in the town were Gambles hardware and the S&S store, which was a farm supply store. They were taken over by Country General I think and then Bomgaars. I just remember drooling over things and sometimes Grandpa would get me a keepsake, just for fun. He had a Moline model Z, not sure of the year but I have often wished I could find it. Probably long gone. My sister and I still own the old farm, built 1907. You have some nice videos to watch Ross, thanks
I think I only paid $700. for my first Deere 55! Field ready! "Warm up the way back machine Sherman!" 😁 Most all farmers had either a 45 or a 55 or a A Gleaner! Big farmers would have them in pairs.
So cool! Those were the days!
When I started working , my first job was 3.35 per hour, it was a little shop in my neighborhood of 60 homes , it was J.C. Whitney,,, Western auto,, and sears and Roebuck, big A auto parts, in town 10 miles away , no longer here,it’s a high gun shop now , elephant guns water buffalo guns, 20.000 each,lol thanks BigAl California.
That stuff was built better than the stuff today buddy
Agree!
Hey Ross I’m 16 and I only wear those old style hats on the farm and I dress like I’m in the 50s I think it looks cool and it’s practical
Them were the good ole days.
Ross, when you decide to make repo prints of that catalog, and sell copies, Ill be your first customer! I'd love to have a copy of it!
I was a 16 yr old at that time. Granted we didn't earn much money (or have much money), but a dollar was worth something.
Much more bang for your buck in those days
Crazy , Now days the gasket set cost more than the rebuild kit did. Talk about being ripped off.None of the stores listed for Oklahoma are still here . But we do have a few, ones about 6 miles from my house one of my fav places to go . Also back in 67 people only made 1.40 minimum wage .SEE
I was born in 1967 that was a great year
Here's my feelings. We climb in the time machine with three fully restored 1967 semi, twenty grand, go back and pick up all the parts we need along with maybe a couple of tractors so we can bring them back with us, hahahaha. Maybe we make a few trips and sell some stuff and get rich!!!!! Hahahaha 😂😂😂. If only we could, 😂😂😂. It was an interesting video. See you later.
That would be cool!
Thats when tractor supply was a farm supply instead of pet food store
Agree
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. We had it good back then we just didn’t realize it.
Sure stuff was seeming cheaper but remmember in 67 wages were maybe 1.50 or 2.00 per hour I thought man I am a rich man
Ross , in 46 or 47 dad started farming on his own. Dad also told me in 1949 you could buy an 8n ford new for $900. You could buy a new B John Deere for $1100.
Interesting that Green Magazine just did a short article on TCS with a brief history of the company and John Deere power blocks. It seems like we had a lot more options for things years ago. Just like pulling out the Sears and Roebuck catalog. You could order a house if you wanted to, and they were very well made.
I have been on a mission to convince people that largely prices of the goods and services has not really gone up very much but the value of the dollar sure has gone down.
I agree 100%
The sad part is the price for what we market is about the same. Dad bought a new F250 4x4 in 1974 for 1000 bushel of wheat. Wheat should be $80 if it kept pace.
The good news is you can still buy a 1974 pick up for 1000 bushel of wheat 🤣
I need to get me some Oliver slides 😂😂
This one makes me kind sad I remember those days would love to have them back
Most made in the USA back than also.
9 years old in 67. Remember going to the farm store and dealerships. Fun back then, hurts to go there now. Good video Ross, thanks
My dad bought a 1650 diesel in 67 with a 4 bottom plow for 5200
I just saw an auction where a John Deere A brought 5250
I think a gallons of implement paint out here, 200.00 and up, just come on out here and live your best live , of peanuts and 5 dollar per gallons bottles of water. Thanks BigAl California..
Very interesting, its neat to see how prices were when i was in my early childhood,thanks Ross
Put some of those prices into an inflation calculator to see a better idea of what the real cost was 57 years ago.
Supposedly a dollar then equals $9.18 today. Wow
Ross, man you have to remember that if a fellow was making more than 60 dollars a week for 40 hours after taxes , that fellow was doing very well. Like 6-8 thousand a year you were very well off. Gasoline was between 25 and 32 cents a gallon.👍✌🏻🇺🇸🙏🏽
Awesome
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If we had a time machine like in the Back To The Future movie where they went from the 1980s back to the 1950s ... we'd only be going back to the 1990s.
I’ve got a couple sets of new in box tsc sleeves and pistons and gasket sets my grandpa had bought and never used im torn between use them and keep them as a antique
Wow Ross! What memories! Id have been 10 when that catalog came out, but remember the area store very well. It was 15 miles from my hometown. I remember going there very often. If you look at the store location pg again, it would have been on Southern Ave (I think) in Dubuque IA. I couldn't see your video clear enough to pick it out, but my family bought many, many things there, and Id have to be about drug out of the store! All of the replacement roto baler belts, binder twine, combine parts, and tractor parts came from there. And across the street from it was the Sears & Roebuck store! We seemed to be at the parts counter there a lot for parts for the many David Bradley implements grampa bought before my time, but still used. Then the tool department was where Id be while mom shopped the rest of the store! TSC moved west on Hwy 20 for yrs, but closed, Im not sure what year. Sears was still in the same location for a long time. Thats where my tool cabinet and all of my tools came from when I was a HS senior, to have for my vocational school training for ag mechanics. Now they call it a Ag Power Technician program! Sears moved west in Dubuque also into a mall. It was close to the Montgomery Ward store. Sadly all are gone. My 2 closest TSC stores now are over an hour away. Never been in the area of the one, but I never drive past the other when Im in the area. I stopped last fall, but not like the "old" days. I did find a sediment bowl assembly that has a screen riser on it I couldn't leave behind! 😂😂 Not a boring video at all Ross, I really enjoyed the memories it has opened in my small mind!😊
Fantastic video. Oh the memories that brought back. I can still see my dad looking at the catalogs at the kitchen table and saying how do they expect us to pay these prices. How are we gonna make any money. Boy if he could see the prices today. Thank you for the memories you stirred up.
You figure tho, if you made minimum wage those tractor tires would take 2 weeks of working to pay for 1. Great video
I have kept catalogs from years ago also lam a little younger but my oldest is from Central Tractor in 1977. Bought up by TSC. I had seen a headache rack in the book so l called before takeover but it was discontinued l think in the 80’s it cost $79. Agee years ago l found one similar looking at Walmart delivered to my farm for $89. Couldn’t believe it best thing ever on the pickup saves rear window and some where to tie tall stuff to stand. I keep catalogs to find parts easier than on web then order from web. Enjoy your vids look forward to them
No more TSC this side of the border. In Ontario they changed to Peavey Mart late 2020 early 2021. Pretty much a glorified pet and clothing store.
You're not a moron!
😃😃😃😃❤❤ THE GOOD OLD DAYS !!!👍👍👍👍
Thanks Ross I was born that summer of 67 now I feel the sadness lol . My dad shopped there for everything. Alot simpler times back then ,most people were friendly not in competition against you . Nice flashback
From turkey creek farms be safe n thankful
A number nice walk down memory lane .
Excellent video again back in the good old days
My mom said the 1930s and during WW2 it was pretty bad good old days. She said she collected the eggs on the farm and she got caught skimming two eggs out a dozen so she could buy a pair of nylon stockings. Well her mom (my Grandma) was very angry about that. That was in 1941 when she was17. I guess desperate times lead to desperate means. When they both told the story to me in the 1960s they both laughed about it.
I was driving a 1967 tractor today. Very interesting.
I love finding old sale papers and magazines and having a look at what stuff use to be. I sure wish you could buy sickles for the price in that paper. This was a fun video
What is sadder to me than the prices is that there are no stores like that any more. In the 70's i would go with my dad to TSC on market st. Just west of the stockyards in Louisville Ky. They had everything you needed to repair any equipment, reasonably priced. Hardware stores same way find an old Bluegrass Belnap hardware catalogue from the same era its like a phone book.
Yeah Ross I remember those days, you mentioned co-op buildings I actually had three of those and a wickes building 👍🏻
Did the cost of making the stuff go up that much or did the value of the money go down? Probably both plus the companies need for more profit over last year. Most of that stuff is imported now, made in China, Vietnam, India, South Korea, and other Asian countries where labor is cheap. Of course, now, China has decided that most of their exports need to be of the highest quality. Machinist gauge blocks with more accurate measurements than supposedly top-of-the-line companies like Stearret. The new automobile that is probably going to make it's mark is Vinfast, a Vietnam-made auto that the big auto sales groups will be selling simply because they have their "Old" showrooms vacant and all of the now major names are already taken.
Yes Sirs and Madams, times have changed since 1967. We had already gone through 2 factory drag race cars by then. Our firstborn child in 1965 cost $75 for the hospital delivery. Today, that is the cost of 2 hospital Aspirin.
I have a cab with some brackets like what you show for a 431. I see that one you show lists 431 as a model. That must be the same thing me thinks. My parts 431 has some cab that is not like that but is not an Oliver cab I don’t think
A PS to my other reply Ross. The riding mower on the first page, upper left picture, we had one of! It was the toughest little machine!!! As kids we drove it all over the farm. Like you said the deck bolted solid to the frame. The simple tiller steering never failed! It had a 4 hp Briggs on it that ended up on a Montgomery Wards roto tiller to replace a 3 1/2 hp Clinton engine that had the wind up starter that you flipped over and pushed down to spin the engine. The recoil start was far faster to use! My grandpa had a David Bradley walk behind tractor like I've seen in your videos that was traded in for the roto tiller. Can't imagine a MW store doing trades, but they did back then!! Good times! Sure a different world now!
The only thing that didn't go up was the price of raw milk it's been $16 a 100 lb for as long as I can remember
I enjoyed the trip down memory lane. Farm stores in my area dont really carry much equipment parts. More pet and power tools, clothes and stoves. I only go to TSC for bolts.
And now TSC is where you go for grass seed and bird feed. I think I was told that the power block in my JD 70 was from TSC back in the day.
Yes you can't dwell on those times you really will be sad if you live then!
Back then nearly everything was made here in the USA. Now try to find something they sell made in USA.
I would’ve loved to go back to 1967 right now
I would have a brand new 1650 and 4020
I also agree with your idea of taking a semi and filling it with tractor tires
I don't think we had any tractor supply stores in our area back then. I remember my dad talking about a store that was similar that was called central tractor but they were gone before I can remember. Now we got tsc's all over but they are basically a feed store. I wish I could go back in time with you and buy a bunch of stuff at those prices to
Ross, very interesting.😢 Thanks Michael
Very interesting video Ross. Thanks
Pretty interesting video today, Ross!! Those prices definitely seem like a bargain compared to what we pay for items today….. I can remember my Dad saying from back in the day though…..those same items in that catalog didn’t seem cheap to him in the 1960’s, but who could foresee today’s prices.
One thing sticks out in my memory…..The county fair in the mid seventies, I wanted to go and bring a friend with me, and my Dad took us…We spent the the afternoon/early evening at the fair riding the rides, and getting some food etcetera…..finally Dad was ready to go home, and I mentioned I wanted to do one more ride, or something….Anyway, my Dad commented, I have already spent $10.00 dollars on you two….It’s time to go home!!! It’s crazy seeing how prices are now compared to fifty years ago! That same ten dollars today hardly buys a “value” meal at McDonald’s. 😳🤷🏼♂️
You should take that catalog to a tsc store and tell them to order that rattle chain for you! Just play dumb and see what they say.
Hahahahahaha I remember the first time that corn broke $2.00 a bushel lol and dad was walking around with his chest stuck out. Of course the yields back then were only about 100 to 110 bushel per acre
Just in the last few years, in the early 2000s i bout a 5yr old jeep for less the 15,000 including interest, you cant touch a 5yr old rig for that anymore
We had Central tractor in Jasper saved up 30 dollars went in and bought 2 foraged rock shears for a Dearborn plow payed $29 and stopped and got a burger on the 40 mile drive home a week later that were in had to save up for gas money to go back and pick them up I think gas was 30 cents a gallon the old ford truck wasn't to fuel efficient lol thanks for the memories
Wow bud nice
I did not know husky had all that equipment, thought they only had running gears and gravity boxes.
How much was a Mountain Dew in 67?
I was born spring of 67.
My parents got married in 67
Where are your Beatle Boots?
Any in Oregon on there
Tractor Supply will snatch your head off for farm supplies these days. Went to get a tube for a lawn mower tire. It was almost the same price as a new tire. Unbelievable how much todays rubber from the same rubber tree has gone up!
I was born in '67.
Paint prices have gone up like 900%
Can I have the tsc book please and if you whunt I offer a price so can you reply thank you 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😅😅!
2-4D is Agent Orange.
2-4D in its self is not agent orange
Nope. They still sell 2,4-D. I believe the AO was 2,4,5-T
@@waggtech4883 I looked it up 2-4-D is in Agent Orange. It was mixed with 2,4,5-T.
I want the 2,4,5-T then. It was better than that new and improved agent orange.
@@waggtech4883 I worked with a guy that had Agent Orange poisoning from Vietnam, it was hard to watch him go down hill like that.
all made by americans in america, and still affordable." i thought that was impossible" go figure.