They still know how to make good products today. You just have to have deep enough products for some things. In fact, most of the stuff made today is far and away superior to the stuff I grew up with so don't buy into that crap some of the old farts my age spout.
They've forgot about unplugging their black and white TV's, taking twenty screws out to remove the back cover, using a piece of wire to bleed off the high voltage on the rear of the picture tube so that they could safely remove the dozen tubes. Then they drove to the local drugstore and tested those tubes one by one trying to find the bad one.
They've forgot about bringing their 58 Ford Fairlane 500 into the local service station for a fall tune-up and then a spring tune-up. Tires lasted no more than 20,000 miles. You changed the oil in the rear end, manual transmission and the engine in spring and fall. You did a valve job at 40,000 miles and the rings before 80,000 miles. And if you got 100,000 miles out of a car, you were damn lucky.
Lastly, those $800.00 garden tractors in the 60's that everyone lusts after today would cost you $10,000.00 in the money of today. It's called inflation. :sidelaugh: