Posted on 01/24/2008 2:03:41 PM PST by o_zarkman44
Makes you wonder about 50 years from now.
Comments made in the year 1955! That's only 53 years ago!
"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to beimpossible 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 isridiculous.
"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 29cents 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 newmovie 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 yearjust 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. Theyare 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 theywill 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 toorich for my blood."
"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it."
In the late 60's I lived in Houston; had an Exxon station at the end of my street. I regularly paid 22-23 cents but during gas wars we paid 17 cents.
We always got Green Stamps with our gasoline----and they had nothing to do with environmental issues!
I don't know about ballplayers but in 1955 the president's salary was $35,000 a year.
First Class postage was 3c in 1955 and didn't go to 4c until 1960. Somebody just made this stuff up, somebody who wasn't alive in 'fifty-five.
Exactly the song I thought of when I read that post. These kids today think they invented everything.
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"--Plato
Yup, that's right. I was working as a gas station attendant in 1974. Who would of thought that someday customers would be pumping their own gas? (Besides pumping gas, I had to wipe car windows, fill the air in tires, and check the oil and water on every car or risk getting fired.)
It’s bad enough to get fwd email spam in my inbox. I don’t need to see it on FR.
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