This sounds more like someone today writing up what they thought people might have say in ‘55. It wasn’t that way.
The reference to Omaha makes me believe these “quotes” probably were of midwestern origin. I believe them to be typical of how rural people thought back in the day when life was much less complicated. The email actually traces back to someone at Kansas State U.
City folk have their “urban legends”. Country folk have their own form of folk legends can’t they? You can dispute the validity of the quotes since they aren’t sourced, but you cannot dispute the reflection of a yearning for the good ol days and how far things have gone, for better or worse.