The Fifties

[SPEEDO]

Comments made in the year 1957 . . . . . OH FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS--Skip


"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."


"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long
before $5000 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, 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 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 just 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 a night to stay in a hotel."


"No one can afford to be sick any more - $35 a day in the hospital is
too rich for my blood."


"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it."





SPEEDO

[vass0922]

LOL
Hmm I never said any of those...
Go figure

Skip:

You and I come from the same generation.

Impala cars used to be $2,200 back in '64. Mustangs were loine $150 cheaper. And remember the T-Birds? Now those were cars.

[caddmannq]

OK..I'm gonna "date" myself here...

I do remember buying gas for 24 cents a gal.

A Corvette convertable was under $5000.

A new VW was under $1500.

We went to the Saturday mattinee for a dime.

Coke was a nickle a bottle, and the new "big" bottle was a dime.

A real lunch at school with chocolate milk was a quarter & for a nickle extra you got icecream. For a dollar a week, you got 5 lunches with icecream.

RAM was about $2 million a megabyte, but no machine used over 64k anyway.

The AirForce payed my dad about $10,000 a year to be a Radarman, & we lived OK on that.

[SPEEDO]

shahani

If I had a choice I would go back in a heartbeat! Life was better then, Not so material oriented and everyone watched out for the other guy!
Today people are to busy busy busy

SPEEDO

[vass0922]

Sorry I just skipped a few other posts in here cause I'm runnin' around a bit

What are you talkin' about speedo?
Hmm dont get it

I'm with you on that.

[Knothead]

Again, one word:
Dentistry.

[Roy]

My $0.02 worth:

The cost of living is best measured by the number of slices of bread you can buy for one hour's pay.

In good times, there are eight hot dogs in a package. In bad times there are twelve. Lately there seem to be ten.

That's about all two pennies can get you now. How long before the cent yields it's place in the cash drawer, making room for $1 coins. I tend to favor rounding prices up or down to the nearest nickel and some merchants already are doing that.

[Brainchild]

Well I am about ten years too late to remember the 50's, but I can remember teh drive-ins with the rollerskating waitress, video arcades with nickel plays, buying a gallon of coke from the walk up window at the drive-in for 35 cents, and skating all night for 50 cents.

The funny thing is my kids one day will tell thier grandkids: A movie when I was young was $4.50,gas was $1.85 a gallon, and our old computers just had a cable connection. Boy are they deprived.