View Single Post
  #13  
Old 11-24-2006, 04:18 PM
ManFromPorlock's Avatar
ManFromPorlock ManFromPorlock is offline
AK Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 27
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandy G
I would think a TV was a big-ticket luxury item for either one of them.. Ralph & Ed were POOR...
Most of us were. In the early fifties my father was working at a defense plant and making big bucks... $85 a week. You could buy a 16" tabletop B&W for around $180 -- and that was the cheapest one around.
__________________
Being cheap isn't a character defect -- it's an art form.
Reply With Quote