Comments Made in the Year 1955 (Makes You wonder about 50 Years in the Future)

email ^ | 1/24/2008 | unknown

[o_zarkman44]

1955 was the year I was born. We have seen much progress, but has it come with a heavy cost?

[ToryNotion]

Inflation (bump).

[JamesP81]

bttt

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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

The year was 1929, and a reporter remarked, "Babe, you make more money than the president."

"I had a better year.", quipped the Babe.

[weegee]

I’d have to see a citation for the sources of these “quotes”.

They sound fake but accurate.

And I agree that our postage hikes have been too high. 10% up to 25% (for some package classes) vs. a penny for DECADES.

Gas taxes and cigarette taxes account for those products’ prices (at least at some times in the market, gas not so much today but they want to double it).

[Borges]

A lot of those sound ex post facto manufactured ‘quotes’. The word ‘Damn’ was used in various film before ‘Gone with the Wind’.

[tx_eggman]

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

Babe Ruth did this in the '20s. When he was asked why he was paid more than the president he said

"I had a better year than he did."

[DuncanWaring]

They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."

This one sounds like a fabrication.

1955 was two years before Sputnik.

[OB1kNOb]

Hello fellow 55'er. It was a great year to be born. You forgot one quote I currently find myself using:

"If things keep going the way they are, this country's going to go to h3ll in a handbasket."

[wideawake]

All those quotes are manufactured.

Cute, but not historical and rather off-base.

[CholeraJoe]

People from the 50’s would faint dead away if they heard Rap Music lyrics.

[elizabetty]

I bet the folks who started investing in 1955 are pretty happy these days.

[trumandogz]

Of course they are manufactured.

[BluH2o]

"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."

That didn't happen in 1955. The astronaut program didn't crank up for at least another 4 or 5 years.

[Borges]

Indeed. I was reading through those and wondering when they would get to “The way these politicans are going we’re going to have a Presidential Sex Scandal soon!” or “Next thing you know we’ll be listening to music that glorifies gansters!”

[tet68]

I remember telling my best friends sister that someday I’d be making $10,000 a year and then we could get married....

Bwhahahahah.

[awakened]

Rap Music? An oxymoron if ever I heard one! :)

[x]

I’d have to see a citation for the sources of these “quotes”.

They sound fake but accurate.

Agreed. These are the sorts of urban legends people get started when the boss's back is turned.

And I agree that our postage hikes have been too high.

Here's a graph that's real, but not quite accurate:

[MichiganWoodsman]

Not to make a lighthearted post into a political one, but it proves Ron Paul right about the “inflation tax”. The Federal Reserve created this problem called massive inflation because money is no longer backed by anything except mathematical trial and error.

[wideawake]

All the price stuff is silly. The US had a GDP per capita of $2,500 in 1955.

Now it is 44,200.

If gas was 29c a gallon in 1955, then it should be $5.12 now to have the same impact.