[danans]

It's still a huge change in real value vs today, but for accuracy, 22000 1961 dollars is 181000 2017 dollars.

[Atheros]

A 13.6x growth. Pretty good. But not as good as the stock market which would have given you 22.1x over the same period.

[sytelus]

You also have to take in to account all the rents you saved (dividends on stocks are peanuts relatively).