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Comments made in 1953 That's only 53 years ago!
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Posted on 09/21/2010 3:12:48 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Comments made in 1953 That's only 53 years ago!

I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00.

Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.

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

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

If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.

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.

Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.

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.

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.

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 they'll be making more than the President.

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

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

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

Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.

I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.

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.

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

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.

No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.

If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.


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To: calex59

I believe that was a 7 ounce bottle.

They were cooled in a cooler with a water fountain that cooled the water that cooled the Pepsi.


41 posted on 09/21/2010 4:01:13 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: DManA

The heading is wrong it should read 57 years ago in 1953 I should know I’m 57 born in 53.


42 posted on 09/21/2010 4:04:20 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
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To: JRios1968

LOL! PERFECT!


43 posted on 09/21/2010 4:05:50 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

I’ll certainly take the popular culture—popular music, movies, stage productions, etc.—of 1953 over that of today. However, when it comes to sports, USC may have won the 1953 Rose Bowl Game, but the UCLA Bruins were a growing force that would overpower the Trojans later in the year.


44 posted on 09/21/2010 4:06:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Venturer
Nope, you are wrong: The jingle went thus: "Pepsi Cola hits the spot, 12 full oz that's a lot, Get more money for a nickel too, Pesi cola is the one for you.

There were no 7 oz bottles.

45 posted on 09/21/2010 4:09:37 PM PDT by calex59
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To: JaguarXKE

I like this too. I was born in 1953, and by some trick of mathematics I’m getting younger! LOL


46 posted on 09/21/2010 4:19:59 PM PDT by Brucifer (Proud member of the Double Secret Reloading Underground.)
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To: calex59
Nope, you are wrong: The jingle went thus: "Pepsi Cola hits the spot, 12 full oz that's a lot, Get more money for a nickel too, Pesi cola is the one for you.

There were no 7 oz bottles.They were 6 oz. bottles. I was born in 1950 and didn't see my first 12 oz. pop bottle (RC Cola) until the early '60s, it was huge!

47 posted on 09/21/2010 4:31:04 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Something’s wrong here


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

When I was a kid in the 60’s, a postcard was 4 cents and a letter was five cents. 10 cents in 1953? I don’t think so.


48 posted on 09/21/2010 4:34:27 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: calex59

mY APOLOGIES.

Damn that Caps Lock. LOL


49 posted on 09/21/2010 4:35:21 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer

You may be right about the pop but candy bars were only 5 cents and they were big. Use to buy the kite candies 4 or 5 in a wrapper and they were 4 for a penny.


50 posted on 09/21/2010 4:36:52 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
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To: JRios1968

I wonder how much a nice piece of a$$ cost in 1953?


51 posted on 09/21/2010 4:42:56 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Well, I am sorry but I was drinking 12 oz bottles of pepsi in the 40s, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52. I lived in Bell Gardens at the time and I remember the 12 oz bottles well. If you never saw one until the 60s you were in a depressed area for sure. The jingle I quoted came out in the 40s, so yes, the 12 oz bottle was there and the only bottle I knew of.


52 posted on 09/21/2010 4:46:13 PM PDT by calex59
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To: sodpoodle

Why not? 2010 minus 1953 = 53 ????


53 posted on 09/21/2010 4:47:44 PM PDT by Elsiejay (.)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

I was making $105 a week in 1963 as a Chief Engineer of a TV station. I also bought a 1964 Chevrolet Super Sport with a big engine and leather seats and paid for it in 3 years!

Memorable days for the young!


54 posted on 09/21/2010 4:51:03 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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To: al baby
I wonder how much a nice piece of a$$ cost in 1953?

About $47, give or take

55 posted on 09/21/2010 4:52:21 PM PDT by JRios1968 (WhatÂ’s the difference between 0bama and his dog, Bo? Bo has papers.)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Your math sucks but I sure did enjoy your post!


56 posted on 09/21/2010 4:56:28 PM PDT by oldvike (I'm too drunk to taste THIS chicken)
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To: AlaskaErik

<Check your math...1953 was 57 years ago!

I was born in ‘53 and I say it’s 53 years ago. : )

I remember when I got a retail job paying $2 an hour. You couldn’t talk to me, I thought I was making so much money!


57 posted on 09/21/2010 5:03:11 PM PDT by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound
Major Events of 1953

January 7 – President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz, Jr. in real life).
January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower succeeds Harry S. Truman as President of the United States.
February 5 – Walt Disney's feature film Peter Pan premieres at selected theaters.
February 28 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce their discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.
March 5-- Joseph Stalin dies.
March 25 – 26 – Mau Mau Uprising: Mau Mau Terrorists kill up to 150 Kikuyu natives at the Lari Massacre in Kenya.
March 26 – Jonas Salk announces his polio vaccine.
March 30 – higgmeister born at Baptist Hospital, Gadsden AL
April 13 – Ian Fleming publishes his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale in the United Kingdom.
May 18 – At Rogers Dry Lake, Californian Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier (in a F-86 Sabrejet at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour).
May 29 – Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
June 2 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.
July 9 – The IRS is formed.
July 27 – The Korean War ends: United Nations Command (Korea) (United States), People's Republic of China, North Korea sign an armistice agreement.
August 8 – Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.
August 13 – 4 million workers go on strike in France to protest austerity measures.
August 18 – Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, is published.
September 4 – The discovery of REM sleep is first published by researchers Eugene Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman.
September 26 – Rationing of cane sugar ends in the UK.
October – The UNIVAC 1103 is the first commercial computer to use random access memory.
November 21 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the Piltdown Man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
November 29 – French paratroopers take Dien Bien Phu.
December – Hugh Hefner publishes the first issue of Playboy Magazine; it sells 54,175 copies at $.50 each.
December 30 – The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars).

58 posted on 09/21/2010 5:12:29 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister

You missed the most important thing about 1953:

DETROIT LIONS - NFL CHAMPIONS!


59 posted on 09/21/2010 5:14:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Rangers Magic Number - 6)
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To: dfwgator
LOL I also left out the Subway Series that year due to its narrow-based metropolitan appeal.
60 posted on 09/21/2010 5:19:49 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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