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Originally Posted by Randy Bassham
I've got an ad that shows the H845 sold for $129.00 in 1963
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Randy, that doesn't surprise me. I have a Zenith C845L in a huge table-model cabinet that sounds great, gets all sorts of stations, especially at night--and probably cost close to your $129 figure when it was new. You get what you pay for. In the '20s through the '80s, when you bought Zenith, especially, by the '60s, a well-built and great-sounding radio such as a C- or H-845, your money bought a very high-quality piece of entertainment equipment, so I am not the least bit surprised the H-845 (and likely the C-845 and C-845L as well) went for well over $100 in the early '60s. This was not small potatoes for most people in those days. Most folks made do with smaller and lesser-known brands of radios then, not to mention black-and-white TV (color television was far too expensive for most families to afford in the '50s through the seventies). If a family even had $129 that was just sitting around doing nothing in 1963 (which was not likely then and even less likely today), if they were smart it likely went for much more important things than a fancy radio.