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.
When figuring your age, you subtract all the hours you spend sleeping, that doesn’t count....I sleep alot..
July 9- The IRS is formed.
One of the few things I didn’t like about Ike.
Who makes up this silly stuff?
There was no astronaut training going on in Texas or anywhere else in 1953.
Who makes up this silly stuff?
There was no astronaut training going on in Texas or anywhere else in 1953.
Now how did that happen?????????????
Though to be fair, this was simply a bureaucratic name change from Bureau of the Internal Revenue to Internal Revenue Service. Ike was actually pretty good on taxes.
Postage was tax subsidized prior to 1970.
You are absolutely right about the stamps. I remember using 3 cent stamps to send letters homed from Boy Scout camp. In 1953, I would only have been 8 years old, much too young for Boy Scouts. I don’t think first class postage went to 10 cents until the late 60s.
Yeah, so as soon as you read something like that it sort of makes you wonder about the whole thing. Like some sort of internet chain letter that gets passed around without regard to accuracy.
I noticed that too but I took the 4 years as a gift.
um 1953 was more than 53 years ago chief.
Well said, Mr. Benny!
Ah, memories......I STILL kick myself for selling mine in '75........
Strange, my mom says she is 39 and she was born in ‘49...must be something about too much discipline and too little math!
This sounded wrong to me and I found this from a tax document from Washington State.
1955 - Additional tax of 0.5 cents per 10 cents of selling price (then roughly equivalent to 1 cent per pack).That makes it 20 cents a pack in 1955 in the state that arguably had the highest tobacco prices at the time. In the Southern States the price was probably 10 cents a pack and in South Carolina cigarettes were probably only two cents a pack in 1953.
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