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

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[goat granny]

When figuring your age, you subtract all the hours you spend sleeping, that doesn’t count....I sleep alot..

[princeofdarkness]

July 9- The IRS is formed.

One of the few things I didn’t like about Ike.

[Nik Naym]

Who makes up this silly stuff?

There was no astronaut training going on in Texas or anywhere else in 1953.

[Nik Naym]

Who makes up this silly stuff?

There was no astronaut training going on in Texas or anywhere else in 1953.

[Nik Naym]

Now how did that happen?????????????

[princeofdarkness]

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.

[Pelham]

Postage was tax subsidized prior to 1970.

[blau993]

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.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

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.

[DManA]

I noticed that too but I took the 4 years as a gift.

[mad_as_he$$]

um 1953 was more than 53 years ago chief.

[ssaftler]

You are wrong. I was born in 1953. That was 39 years ago.

Well said, Mr. Benny!

[OB1kNOb]

I also bought a 1964 Chevrolet Super Sport with a big engine and leather seats...

Ah, memories......I STILL kick myself for selling mine in '75........

[Docbarleypop]

Strange, my mom says she is 39 and she was born in ‘49...must be something about too much discipline and too little math!

[higgmeister]

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

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.