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---Yea, but you had to walk uphill both ways to the store and back to buy those back in 1909.
Even in major population areas like northern Virginia just 50 years ago, there were some small Sears catalog stores where you’d go in, look at the catalog, place the order, and pay by check or cash. The attraction I guess was you didn’t have to mail your payment with your order and it was thus quicker and more secure. You could have your order delivered to that small store too. Like cabelas ship to store.---
But, seriously, Sears-Roebuck was mail-order. You got it delivered to your door/post office. They were Amazon before there was an Amazon.
Wow, Monkey Wards as my Dad called them. My first (1968ish) full size tool box was/is (still have it) a Ward’s Power Kraft. I had just bought my first car—a ‘62 VW bug.I can remember walking into a big Montgomery Wards store that that had merchandise in stock. I bought a box of Winchester long rifle ammo. I had 50 cents in my pocket and got change back although I don't remember the amount or the exact year. It was either 1949 or 50 I imagine. Long time ago..
I am sure there are others older that remember cheaper but when I was a kid, dad would buy my brother and I each a brick (500rds) of 22 LR for $9.99 at the local K-mart and we would burn through that in a weekend trip to
Uphill both ways in the snow, and I’m in Florida!Yea, but you had to walk uphill both ways to the store and back to buy those back in 1909.
During a hurricane!Uphill both ways in the snow, and I’m in Florida!
That’s about 8 cents a shot accounting to an inflation calculator. 8 cents per was a fairly common price in Jan 2020... now Jan 2021? Not even close .I have a couple of boxes of Winchester Wildcats that were bought at Barkers in 1967. The price on each box is $.49. a penny a round. We will never see those days again.
Was it $9.99 per brick, or two bricks for $9.99? If it was per brick, I was getting Federal 510 .22LR (blue box) for that price at Wal-Mart in the mid-2000s. I used to buy a brick every time I went there for anything, just because I could and because it was cheap. That's how I got through the last ammo panic.I am sure there are others older that remember cheaper but when I was a kid, dad would buy my brother and I each a brick (500rds) of 22 LR for $9.99 at the local K-mart and we would burn through that in a weekend trip to the family farm.
Well the good old days for me actually include up to September 2019 when Walmart quit selling handgun ammo here. I used to stop by on the way to the range and buy just what I was going to shoot (9mm or 45ACP). Never looked at the price. Seldom kept more than a box of each at home. They were times of plenty. Then, they quit and I started reloading.Was it $9.99 per brick, or two bricks for $9.99? If it was per brick, I was getting Federal 510 .22LR (blue box) for that price at Wal-Mart in the mid-2000s. I used to buy a brick every time I went there for anything, just because I could and because it was cheap. That's how I got through the last ammo panic.
I'm getting through this one because I bought rimfire, 9mm, and .223 by the case before the panic hit. And I ain't selling ...
I can remember walking into a big Montgomery Wards store that that had merchandise in stock. I bought a box of Winchester long rifle ammo. I had 50 cents in my pocket and got change back although I don't remember the amount or the exact year. It was either 1949 or 50 I imagine. Long time ago..
We got the Sears and Roebuck and the Montgomery Ward catalogue spring and fall out on the farm. When the new catalogue came out the old one went out to the two holer out west of the house. Never did buy toilet paper. This would have been in the '40s.
Can't remember the price but the cheapest shells we could buy was a flat box of Remington Jets, they were shorts and the box looked like what Chicklets chewing gum came in. Us boys would walk the grader ditches picking up pop bottles and beer bottles, sell them at the local grocery and buy some Jets and head for the South Soloman river with our rifles. Those were the days!
I'm sorry, memory fades with time. They weren't Jets, they were Rockets.
Wow, Monkey Wards as my Dad called them. My first (1968ish) full size tool box was/is (still have it) a Ward’s Power Kraft. I had just bought my first car—a ‘62 VW bug.