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Stacey
05-22-04, 05:53 AM
The following were some comments made in the year 1957:

(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.00."

(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5,000 will only buy a used one."

(3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."

(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"

(5) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."

(6) "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage,"

(7) "Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls,"

(8) "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying damn in "Gone With The Wind", it seems every new movie has either hell or damn in it."

(9) "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."

(10) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday that they will be making more than the President."

(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now"

(12) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."

(13) "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."

(15) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."

(16) "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes.. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to Congress."

(17) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

(18) "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel."

(19) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."


Hummm.... seems like only yesterday :)


DnvrFox
05-22-04, 06:01 AM
The following were some comments made in the year 1957:


Hummm.... seems like only yesterday :)

Yeah, I graduated from High School in 1957. Just yesterday!

TrekRider
05-22-04, 01:28 PM
Yeah, I graduated from High School in 1957. Just yesterday!

Age is a state of mind. One of my favorite philosophers, Satchel Paige once said "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?" Personally, if I didn't know I was 58, I'd be 35.

Those things said back in '57 do sound odd at first blush, but what were the wages back then and wasn't inflation about 0.0%? I remember my Dad whining when a carton of Camels went up to $3, but, then, he only made about $100-$150 per week.


SamDaBikinMan
05-22-04, 01:36 PM
I took some kids to the store the other day to get drinks and commented to one that Jolly Rancher was my favorite when a kid and she was amazed they had them that long ago. But I am only 39. Sheeesh!

fujibike
05-22-04, 02:32 PM
Prices of things don't necessarily make me feel old. Though gas might have been $.25 a gallon, and groceries ran $20 a week all that is pretty relative. What was the minimum wage in '57? - $.75/hr? What makes me feel old is that I remember things like JFK, Howdy Doody, Tom Terrific & His Wonder Dog, The King & Odie, etc.

Chris L
05-22-04, 10:57 PM
Actually, none of those are even remotely familiar to me at all. Now if you were talking about 1987...

MsVicki
05-23-04, 07:18 AM
Actually, none of those are even remotely familiar to me at all. Now if you were talking about 1987...

Shaddup, youngster! :p

spanners
05-23-04, 11:38 PM
Well Chris someday you will be old like us. But, thank God, we'll never be young again.

Chris L
05-24-04, 02:28 AM
Well Chris someday you will be old like us. But, thank God, we'll never be young again.

But what will you be when I'm old? :p

spanners
05-24-04, 04:56 AM
What will I be? Dead. But I'll be sitting on a cloud playing a harp......wait a minuite, I don't wanta sit around playing a harp here, why would I wanta do that there. Maybe mountain biking the clouds. If they got harps they must have mountain bikes, right?

Stacey
05-24-04, 07:02 AM
Playing a harp, he!! I want to be drinking 'em!

ngateguy
05-24-04, 08:04 AM
Shaddup, youngster! :p

aw thats not fair you beat me to it. My sentiments exactly :D

AlphaGeek
05-24-04, 12:12 PM
But what will you be when I'm old? :p

fertilizer!