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Johnzer speakers, new one on me

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Yes - my dad had a set of these, 100 years ago. I don't remember what they sounded like, or what they were hooked up to, I was just a wee tyke.
 
I font know the specific brand, but I've seen and heard plenty like them before. They won't be anything super-special. Kind of like the JE Davis speakers I have. I collect them, because of the Dallas heritage... not the sound.

Plus, that specific CL pair has mismatched woofers. Not so good!
 
In the 50's to the 70's shipping was very expensive. You think it is expensive now, it was even more so now. Imagine shipping costs on a new car nowadays to be $3,000-6,000 today on top of the list price and you get an idea. People used to buy speaker kits and build their own boxes for the speakers. There were also a bunch of small regional builders of complete speakers of which Johnzer was one, early Speakerlab was another. Being built in the NW they were popular in the NW.
 
Really? I've never heard anyone say that before. I have heard freight got expensive and drove inflation for a while in the 70s (oil crisis)..
 
There used to be automobile plants on the West Coast because it was cheaper to manufacture the car on the WC than manufacture it in Detroit and ship it. Also, why do you think every town of any size had a Coca Cola bottling plant up until the early 70's? It was because shipping was so expensive it was cheaper to have 10,000 local bottling plants than the 10 or so they have today. Same with beer. We are burning up millions of gallons in oil each year to ship what is 99% water. And don't even get me started on the idiocy of bottled water which we are also wasting oil resources on. And the inflation was because the cost of gas jumped from $.33 a gallon to almost $.70 a gallon overnight, like waking up tomorrow morning to find gas costing $9-10.00. Filling your tank at $100-200.00 a pop is going to cause some serious disruption to your finances. I was just becoming a young adult at the time and remember it well. Rant over. we now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
 
Well, of course I understand that if you go back far enough, freight in general would be MUCH more expensive, but I guess I thought it had already become very cheap prior to the 70s oil crisis, whereas you seem to be saying cheap freight appeared at the same time as the oil crisis.. I suppose there is some kind of economic indicator chart out there that I don't know how to find. :)

Anyway, um, Johnzer speakers... I see they featured "Johnzer Quadraplex Construction"; I wonder what that meant? 2-axis cross bracing, maybe? Or does it have something to do with this?

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The economic dynamics were totally different in those days and do not transfer over into today's situation. In the time frame I mentioned I was making $2.25 an hour working in a restaurant. In those days it was totally different because I was making over minimum wage in a restaurant, had medical insurance and could eat as much as I wanted for free. Plus we had a locker room with showers and had our uniforms washed for us in the in house laundry. I basically only had to pay for 4-5 meals in a week. Now out of this $90.00 a week I had withholding's for taxes of about 1\3 rd of this amount because I am single. So my total take home pay is roughly $240.00 a month if I am lucky if I work 40 hrs a week because like today I get sent home early if business is slow. I lived in a big house(3,000 sq ft)with three other roommates that costs us a monthly average of $60.00 including all utilities including heat. The last time the house sold it went for over $750,000.00, I currently live a mile and one half from it.. The owner offered to sell it to me for $11,000.00 at the time. Car insurance was a big expense if you were under 25 in those days. It cost me around $40.00 a month and I was driving a 1963 Rambler, I knew people that were paying four times that amount for their muscle cars and a friend who had a 69 Corvette was paying around $2500.00 a year for insurance. It was a different world back then an one I would gladly go back to. It wasn't perfect but IMHO it was a lot better than today.
 
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