You may not like it, but this is what Peak Performance looks like

[Ken g6]

"Peak performance"...I was expecting a thread about Viagra.

I was expecting this weird video game where you wiggle your fingers in tubes.

Spoiler

Hey, it's from the '80s too, sort of.

 

[WilliamM2]

Strikes me more as an early-to-mid 80s device, just by the aesthetic. Could even be 70s, not sure. Either way, that was a large TV for the time.

Not that large for 1980, 19". We had 27" (or 26") color TV's back in 1970.

 

[Captante]

Hehe I never paid for Adobe anything. I don't pay for M$ office either, I don't see the point. Though I do pay for Windows licenses.

Last time I paid for a non-OEM license of Windows (for my own use) was for my original copy of Win 7 Pro.

At some point I had a contract job that involved upgrading the entire company from Vista Ultimate to 7 "Pro" and I ended up with a big stack of 7 Pro disks that for some reason READ as "retail" but were packaged like OEM.

All three Win 10 Pro systems *(one of which dual-boots 11 Pro) I own are using "recycled" 7 Pro licenses.

 

[Pohemi]

Not that large for 1980, 19". We had 27" (or 26") color TV's back in 1970.

Guess I misjudged, trying to estimate relative to the size of the other components like the phonograph. I thought it was a 25-27"

 

[MrSquished]

I just showed this 3BR ranch to a client a couple weeks ago. Listed at $499K and went for around $570K - no central AC, still oil heat. Kitchen needed to be gutted, bathroom was so old school, the half bath was in the kitchen, still some wood paneling. Floors were nice, bones were solid, basement immaculate, very neat and kept well but just ooooold. So it needed like 80-100K of renovations.

This was the stove and oven. Classics like the OP.

 

[Pohemi]

Insane that a ranch so old would be priced so high...CA? Wherever it is must be a desirable area.

 

[MrSquished]

Insane that a ranch so old would be priced so high...CA? Wherever it is must be a desirable area.

Northern NJ in a quiet town about 30 miles west of the Lincoln Tunnel. Quiet corner lot on a dead end.

3BR 1.5 baths

 

[esquared]

Insane that a ranch so old would be priced so high...CA? Wherever it is must be a desirable area.

Ha ha ha ha. If that was in the Bay area it would be over a million, easy, if it was in a semi desirable neighborhood.

Burned down houses go for a million here. From 2021

This fire-charred San Francisco Bay Area home just sold for $1 million

The sale comes as San Francisco Bay Area housing prices remain competitive despite countrywide cooling.

www.cnbc.com

Here's one in LA from 2022 for nearly a million.

A burned-out, boarded-up bungalow in LA just went under contract a few weeks after being listed for almost $1 million cash

US home prices continue to climb, with a record high of more than 6 million homes valued at $1 million or more.

www.businessinsider.com

Here's one from 2018 for 1.5 million

Burned out home for sale for $1.5 million in Mountain View

The online listing for a $1.5 million home in Mountain View advises potential buyers that “opportunity knocks for your own design and creativity" and to “bring your architect, builder, and your imagination.”

www.ktvu.com

 

[Red Squirrel]

I don't get why places like that are even desirable if you have to pay that kind of money to own a basic home or in these cases, a teardown. You have to spend the rest of your life working multiple jobs just to pay it off or have gotten lucky with the lotto or something. Like if I had that kind of money to spend I would rather buy in a cheaper area, and get a much nicer house and more land. That beats any subdivision home in any city.

That's what that kind of money gets you in my area: (first two are not in my city though but about 45 min away)

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/26348617/198-big-nellie-lake-rd-w-iroquois-falls-iroquois-falls

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/26277745/2059-camp-bickell-rd-iroquois-falls-iroquois-falls

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/26037630/810-laforest-road-timmins

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/26294617/1705-kraft-creek-rd-timmins-timmins

The taxes for some are insane though. So you can't really retire in a home like that. There are areas where it's more reasonable though, I was just curious to see what's close to me in that range and those came up.

 

[skyking]

My sister and her husband brought back one of these Grundig all in wonders from Germany. He was over there in the Army in the mid-60's.
I remember how cool that thing was as a kid.

For sale on Ebay. tunes shortwave channels too!
Grundig!

It's in Albuquerque, go get it @IronWing

 

[Pohemi]

Ha ha ha ha. If that was in the Bay area it would be over a million, easy, if it was in a semi desirable neighborhood.

Nah I knew if it was CA, it'd be nowhere near the coast or larger metro area. I am a little surprised at the price for the location in NJ though.

And burned out houses for 1M+...that has to be mainly for the lots themselves. Insane.

k...soz for the OT lol

 

[BurnItDwn]

I just showed this 3BR ranch to a client a couple weeks ago. Listed at $499K and went for around $570K - no central AC, still oil heat. Kitchen needed to be gutted, bathroom was so old school, the half bath was in the kitchen, still some wood paneling. Floors were nice, bones were solid, basement immaculate, very neat and kept well but just ooooold. So it needed like 80-100K of renovations.

This was the stove and oven. Classics like the OP.

View attachment 91116


View attachment 91117

Those 50 year old appliances still work.
New appliances suck. Sure they are shiny, but they dont last!

 

[SteveGrabowski]

View attachment 91017

Where's the Famicom?

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Here's one in LA from 2022 for nearly a million.

A burned-out, boarded-up bungalow in LA just went under contract a few weeks after being listed for almost $1 million cash

US home prices continue to climb, with a record high of more than 6 million homes valued at $1 million or more.

www.businessinsider.com

Wow $925k for a burned down home in Rollin 60s hood? Ouch.