{"id":24206,"date":"2022-10-04T01:03:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24206"},"modified":"2022-10-02T00:53:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T04:53:35","slug":"anything-for-a-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/anything-for-a-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"anything for a buck &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24207\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mini-ad-Popular-Mechanics-March-1946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24207\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24207\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Mini-ad-Popular-Mechanics-March-1946-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ad for a photo ring &#8211; only $1 US in 1946 when our dollar was worth a bit more than that.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Some people will do anything for money. While a dollar ring sounds junky (and maybe it was), 20 years later 18k gold was still about $25\/ounce Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>This ad, from the March 1946 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, touts a ring with a photo for only a dollar! Mind you shipping and postage more than doubled the cost to the buyer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The ad shows just how ubiquitous \u00a0photos were about 70 years ago. A big thanks to our good friend, George Dunbar, for spotting this tiny piece of photo history and sharing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Some people will do anything for money. While a dollar ring sounds junky (and maybe it was), 20 years later 18k gold was still about $25\/ounce Canadian. This ad, from the March 1946 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine, touts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/anything-for-a-buck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[972,973,102,613,495,1132],"class_list":["post-24206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ad","tag-advertisement","tag-magazine","tag-photo","tag-photograph","tag-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24210,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24206\/revisions\/24210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}