Globetrotters looked great

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

I guess I'm getting old. Doing a girl's AAU game recently, and while we're sorting out last minute scorebook issues before the jump (i.e., one team FINALLY got us a scorekeeper), one of the centers is doing some fancy ballhandling just to pass the time. I commented that I didn't know the Globetrotters were playing today. Nobody on the floor had ever heard of them.

Wow, that's sad! If it makes you feel any better, I'm only in my mid-20's and have seen the Globetrotters twice in person.

Mark, I mean no offense by this at all but you remind me of my father. He would watch game shows all the time on GSN and call me up to tell me about them. I'd just have to laugh as he'd tell me about the lady who was winning $1,500 in a game show from the 70's. He loved his GSN.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Welpe

Mark, I mean no offense by this at all but you remind me of my father. He would watch game shows all the time on GSN and call me up to tell me about them.

No offense taken. GSN and Turner Classic Movies are my favorite cable channels. I can't get over that the "What's My Line" contestants winning $50 was considered a huge prize back in the 50s. Everything's relative, I guess. I remember my dad saying that if he could only make $250 a week we'd never have to worry about anything. I also remember our first ranch style house in the suburbs cost $17,500 - and it was brand new. This was in 1956. I was in 3rd grade.

Besides "What's My Line", my favorite GSN show is "Trivia Trap" from the mid-80s.

[LDUB]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

No offense taken. GSN and Turner Classic Movies are my favorite cable channels. I can't get over that the "What's My Line" contestants winning $50 was considered a huge prize back in the 50s.

They were paid so much just for appearing on the show. On top of that they could win $50 if the panel couldn't figure out what they did.

I looked it up on Wikipedia and it said that guests were paid $750 just to be on the show. So they were actually winning $800 not $50.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by LDUB

They were paid so much just for appearing on the show. On top of that they could win $50 if the panel couldn't figure out what they did.

I looked it up on Wikipedia and it said that guests were paid $750 just to be on the show. So they were actually winning $800 not $50.

$800 is just over $6.1k in '07 $.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I can't get over that the "What's My Line" contestants winning $50 was considered a huge prize back in the 50s. Everything's relative.

Do we have a Forum correct math guy to account for inflation and tell us what this would be in 2008 dollars? How about the guy that makes all those geometric, trigometric, diagrams? I think it's Camnron Rust. He seems pretty bright, in a geeky, nerdy, kind of way.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Do we have a Forum correct math guy to account for inflation and tell us what this would be in 2008 dollars? How about the guy that makes all those geometric, trigometric, diagrams? I think it's Camnron Rust. He seems pretty bright, in a geeky, nerdy, kind of way.

$50 1956 USD is $381.85 2007 USD.

Source: http://www.miseryindex.us/irbyyear.asp

[LDUB]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

$50 1956 USD is $381.85 2007 USD.

Source: http://www.miseryindex.us/irbyyear.asp

Which comes out to $6,190.60 if the $750 appearance feed was included. That is a lot of money for basically doing nothing, it makes sense that they were so excited.