Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Were Leicas always so expensive?
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:18:16 -0400
 
> ----
> Bill- if it was $250 in 1946 ( the year I was,SHUDDER!, born!),
> what did you
> make an hour?
> Dan
> dwpost@msn.com
>
>
I too was born in that Longgggg ago year...and I can tell you that in 1966 -
forget 1946 - a starting photographer at the Bridgeport (Conn.) Post earned
$1.50 per hour - $60 per week. Minimum wage.