re: The Radio Shack catalog project

I remember going to Radio Shack and Heathkit with my dad, it was always a fun trip to walk around in there and look at all the stuff they had. Later I used Heathkit to rebuild some speakers for my stereo that I used to be proud of.

Its eye opening that the price of somethings are nearly unchanged. For example I scanned through the 1978 catalog and the price for a radio controlled toy car is nearly the same that you could buy one at Walmart today. While the median household income in 1978 was $15,060 and today is $87,460. A real purchasing power gain of 12.4%. It is just interesting how some products have drastically increased in cost and others have stayed close to the same over the last 50 years or so.