Old men and limp wrists??? Holy crap......Burrnnn Baby Burn :lol:
Not sure how affordable things were back then, average Canadian wage in '49... $1.07/hr, one wage earner per household, 4-5 kids. 2007...$25/hr, 2 wage earners per household, 1-2 kids. If you look at Don's pricelist it took 2 1/2 days of work to buy even the cheapest grass Granger and 10 hrs to buy a $250 TFO plastic today. In 1954 Grizzly fiberglass blanks were selling for between .79 and 1.39 and Wright McGill's (Granger) glass fly rods were priced from $9.95 to $23.95
BTW The first commercial tubular fiberglass rods were developed in 1946 by Shakespeare using WW2 technology, Tonkin cane was banned from importation by the US in '50 and Fenwick brought out the first commercial graphite rods in 1973.