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Posted by Julia in MN on August 29, 2009, 12:42 pm
Yes I was making more than $1200. I think that my teaching contract that
year was for $5100.
Julia in MN
Susan Laity Price wrote:
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> That was a lot of money in 1966 but bet you were making more than
> $1200 a year. Just think of paying three months salary for a sewing
> machine. Of course if you purchase a top of the line Bernina right now
> it will probably be more than 3 months salary for the average person
> reading this newsgroup.
> Susan
>
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:37:31 -0500, Julia in MN
>
>> FWIW, when I graduated from college in 1966, my parents bought me a
>> top-of-the-line Elna Supermatic. I think it cost them about $300.
>> Julia in MN
>> Susan Laity Price wrote:
>>> I am currently reading "Auditions" by Barbara Walters. It is a good
>>> book although not on my must read list.
>>> In 1972 she went to China to cover President Nixon's visit. She
>>> comments about visiting a department store in China:
>>> "Bicycles, the most prized possession---no one owned a car---cost
>>> about sixty dollars. The average factory worker made about twenty
>>> dollars a month. Denying himself all the extras, a worker could
>>> probably buy a bicycle at the end of the year. . . or maybe a sewing
>>> machine, the next most cherished item, which also cost about sixty
>>> dollars. Shoes cost a dollar fifty a pair, and face cream and shampoo
>>> were sold by the glob." page 220-221
>>> Ok can one of our social historians tell us how the cost of a new US
>>> sewing machine in 1972 compared to the average wage of the US worker
>>> at the time? Wasn't this about the time sewing machine sales began to
>>> slump in the US? I wonder if the sewing machine is still an important
>>> part of a Chinese home?
>>> Susan Price
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Posted by Pam (Dragonfly) on August 27, 2009, 10:27 pm
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> I am currently reading "Auditions" by Barbara Walters. It is a good
> book although not on my must read list.
> In 1972 she went to China to cover President Nixon's visit. She
> comments about visiting a department store in China:
> "Bicycles, the most prized possession---no one owned a car---cost
> about sixty dollars. The average factory worker made about twenty
> dollars a month. Denying himself all the extras, a worker could
> probably buy a bicycle at the end of the year. . . or maybe a sewing
> machine, the next most cherished item, which also cost about sixty
> dollars. Shoes cost a dollar fifty a pair, and face cream and shampoo
> were sold by the glob." page 220-221
> Ok can one of our social historians tell us how the cost of a new US
> sewing machine in 1972 compared to the average wage of the US worker
> at the time? Wasn't this about the time sewing machine sales began to
> slump in the US? I wonder if the sewing machine is still an important
> part of a Chinese home?
> Susan Price =A0
In 1975 a Bernina 830 was about $800. Not sure what the average wage
was then.
Pam (Dragonfly)
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Posted by Listpig on August 28, 2009, 12:17 am
Dunno about average.....in 1972, my spouse was fresh out of college as a
pharmacist, and making about 20K; minimum wage (what I made) was $1.80/hour.
And yes, that's just about when mom bought her Bernina, which was somewhere
in the upper $700s, and I inherited the 1947 Singer.
--pig
On 8/27/09 22:27, in article
d108d86d-5306-4cd2-90cd-a75d6951a829@v20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com, "Pam
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> In 1975 a Bernina 830 was about $800. Not sure what the average wage
> was then.
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Posted by Susan Laity Price on August 29, 2009, 10:26 am
Did the math. At $1.80 per hour you were making $288 a month which
would have given you $864 to spend on a machine if you sacrificed
absolutely everything during the entire year. Of course this is
assuming you got to keep all $1.80 per hour which we know you didn't
even back then.
Susan
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>Dunno about average.....in 1972, my spouse was fresh out of college as a
>pharmacist, and making about 20K; minimum wage (what I made) was $1.80/hour.
>And yes, that's just about when mom bought her Bernina, which was somewhere
>in the upper $700s, and I inherited the 1947 Singer.
>--pig
>On 8/27/09 22:27, in article
>d108d86d-5306-4cd2-90cd-a75d6951a829@v20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com, "Pam
>>
>> In 1975 a Bernina 830 was about $800. Not sure what the average wage
>> was then.
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Posted by Susan Laity Price on August 29, 2009, 10:21 am
I don't know either but probably more than $267 a month which would
have been your $800 divided by three.
Susan
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:27:13 -0700 (PDT), "Pam (Dragonfly)"
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>wrote:
>> I am currently reading "Auditions" by Barbara Walters. It is a good
>> book although not on my must read list.
>> In 1972 she went to China to cover President Nixon's visit. She
>> comments about visiting a department store in China:
>> "Bicycles, the most prized possession---no one owned a car---cost
>> about sixty dollars. The average factory worker made about twenty
>> dollars a month. Denying himself all the extras, a worker could
>> probably buy a bicycle at the end of the year. . . or maybe a sewing
>> machine, the next most cherished item, which also cost about sixty
>> dollars. Shoes cost a dollar fifty a pair, and face cream and shampoo
>> were sold by the glob." page 220-221
>> Ok can one of our social historians tell us how the cost of a new US
>> sewing machine in 1972 compared to the average wage of the US worker
>> at the time? Wasn't this about the time sewing machine sales began to
>> slump in the US? I wonder if the sewing machine is still an important
>> part of a Chinese home?
>> Susan Price
>In 1975 a Bernina 830 was about $800. Not sure what the average wage
>was then.
>Pam (Dragonfly)
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> $1200 a year. Just think of paying three months salary for a sewing
> machine. Of course if you purchase a top of the line Bernina right now
> it will probably be more than 3 months salary for the average person
> reading this newsgroup.
> Susan
>
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:37:31 -0500, Julia in MN
>
>> FWIW, when I graduated from college in 1966, my parents bought me a
>> top-of-the-line Elna Supermatic. I think it cost them about $300.
>> Julia in MN
>> Susan Laity Price wrote:
>>> I am currently reading "Auditions" by Barbara Walters. It is a good
>>> book although not on my must read list.
>>> In 1972 she went to China to cover President Nixon's visit. She
>>> comments about visiting a department store in China:
>>> "Bicycles, the most prized possession---no one owned a car---cost
>>> about sixty dollars. The average factory worker made about twenty
>>> dollars a month. Denying himself all the extras, a worker could
>>> probably buy a bicycle at the end of the year. . . or maybe a sewing
>>> machine, the next most cherished item, which also cost about sixty
>>> dollars. Shoes cost a dollar fifty a pair, and face cream and shampoo
>>> were sold by the glob." page 220-221
>>> Ok can one of our social historians tell us how the cost of a new US
>>> sewing machine in 1972 compared to the average wage of the US worker
>>> at the time? Wasn't this about the time sewing machine sales began to
>>> slump in the US? I wonder if the sewing machine is still an important
>>> part of a Chinese home?
>>> Susan Price