I am searching for 1978 Share Prices for the following Stocks:  
Murphysboro Coca Cola
Kodak
Holiday Inn
Murphysboro Bank & Trust
Texaco
Union Pacific.

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Request for Question Clarification by vercingatorix-ga on 12 Mar 2004 08:52 PST

Do you have tickers or cusips for the companies?

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Clarification of Question by kentuckydawn-ga on 12 Mar 2004 09:21 PST

These are different stocks and I am trying to find out what the price
per share was in 1978

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Clarification of Question by kentuckydawn-ga on 12 Mar 2004 09:22 PST

No I do not have them.

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Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 12 Mar 2004 11:26 PST

Kentuckydawn --

Do you want the yearly range for each?
Or the price on a particular date?
I assume that the first company is "Coca Cola".

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Clarification of Question by kentuckydawn-ga on 15 Mar 2004 05:43 PST

Yearly range would be just fine.  Yes Coca Cola.

Kentuckydawn --

The best stock price databases going back that far are on microfilm,
using the Wall Street Journal or New York Times.  Proquest, a
fee-based online service available for free at many public libraries,
also has the New York Times in full-text version and that's a good
place to find stock prices.

The last trading date of 1978 was Friday, Dec. 29, 1978, so these
prices come from the Saturday New York Times and are the 52-week
trading range for 1978:

Coca Cola (NYSE: KO): 35 1/8 - 49 1/4
Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK): 41 1/8 - 61 1/8
Holiday Inn: 14 1/8 - 32 3/4
Texaco (now merged into CVX): 22 1/8 - 27 3/4
Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP): 40 7/8 - 60 1/4

As for Murphysboro Bank & Trust, I could find no listing under NYSE,
AMEX or NASDAQ.  A check of the SEC Edgar database, which goes back to
1995, didn't show it being traded publicly either.  That's not to say
that the company wasn't public -- there are thousands of "pink sheet"
stocks that trade infrequently.  The best method to find where the
bank's shares traded would be to write to the secretary of the
corporation.  A second alternative would be to find a business school
library that might have pink sheet stocks listed.

On the web, at least three services provide historical stock quotes:

BigCharts.com -- quotes back to at least 1993
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com

123Jump -- quotes back to 1998
http://www.123jump.com/

Yahoo Finance -- site requires registration and Yahoo drops a stock if
it's delisted
http://www.finance.yahoo.com/
  
Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Request for Answer Clarification by kentuckydawn-ga on 18 Mar 2004 06:48 PST

I just realized why you couldn't find the Murphysboro one, it is
spelled Murfreesboro.  Sorry.

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Clarification of Answer by omnivorous-ga on 18 Mar 2004 07:51 PST

Kentuckydawn --

Murfreesboro Bancorp was public at one time and shows in the SEC
database, though all securities were delisted last year after the
acquisition of the company by First South Bancorp:
http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html

However, a check of the NYSE, AMEX and OTC markets in the 1978
year-end New York Times shows no listing for the bank.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA