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Re: 1963 prices

To: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Subject: Re: 1963 prices
From: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 18:57:10 -0500
$10,000 was not an uncommon price in southeastern Massachusetts in the early
60's.

Bud Krueger

Max Heim wrote:

> Well, it wasn't me that came up with that number. But I would think that
> in many communities that would be a reasonable figure for a modest home.
> I think my parents bought the house I grew up in (4 bedroom Edwardian on
> a double lot) in Portland, Oregon, for S11,000 around 1960.
>
> They sold it in 1974 for about $30,000, as I recall...
>
> Jeanne Blumberg had this to say:
>
> >Where could you buy a decent house for $10,000 in 1963 though? They were at
> >least triple that price in New York, and cars were about $3,000.
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the red one with the silver bootlid.

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