ozarkhillbilly
Member
Not to rain on peoples parade, I too like old guns, cars and houses, but for one thing the old stuff that remains today was usally because it was the very best and most expensive off its day.
Most gun owners only owned a couple of firearms and for their day they were quite expensive. Automobles today are far ahead of anything made in the past, it is not uncomon to find cars with 150,000 to 200,000 miles on them with no major repairs ever and that was nearly unheard of in the pre 1990's. Every military in the world would have killed for a glock or M-16 in the 1800's. Old homes are hard to beat wonderful woodwork geat floors lots of style but only liveble after you bring them up to date and they always need work, I grew up in a large two story home built in the 1880's it was beautiful and had style.
The way peolpe afforded that style and craftmanship was 1. you were usally well off 2. you did not have 3 tvs, 3 dvds players, a stove, washing machine, microwave, computer, 3 cars, warher and dryer ect..... If you cut out all that and you can afford great craftmanship today oh and also don't plan on living past 55 so you wont have to save up for retirement.
God bless the good old days but thank God you don't live in them anymore.
Most gun owners only owned a couple of firearms and for their day they were quite expensive. Automobles today are far ahead of anything made in the past, it is not uncomon to find cars with 150,000 to 200,000 miles on them with no major repairs ever and that was nearly unheard of in the pre 1990's. Every military in the world would have killed for a glock or M-16 in the 1800's. Old homes are hard to beat wonderful woodwork geat floors lots of style but only liveble after you bring them up to date and they always need work, I grew up in a large two story home built in the 1880's it was beautiful and had style.
The way peolpe afforded that style and craftmanship was 1. you were usally well off 2. you did not have 3 tvs, 3 dvds players, a stove, washing machine, microwave, computer, 3 cars, warher and dryer ect..... If you cut out all that and you can afford great craftmanship today oh and also don't plan on living past 55 so you wont have to save up for retirement.
God bless the good old days but thank God you don't live in them anymore.