What about it bummed you out?

For those wanting a link to it: https://archive.org/details/catalogueno11200sear/mode/1up

Not much has changed?

nostr:nprofile1qqsxzpn9q3shaeunsuppuxxgn7me68wmc0nmluvu7g5c7szxd7r3t6g0ndrx7 those are gold prices. the dollar was defined as about a twentieth of an ounce back then, so priced in metal most of that catalog still costs roughly what it did. what shrank was the unit doing the counting.