Comments made in the year 1955!
By blackbriar
@blackbriar (9075)
United States
February 4, 2008 6:45pm CST
That's only 53 years ago!
'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 $20.00.'
'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 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 $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.'
'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 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 of 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 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 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 $15.00 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 too rich for my blood.'
'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'
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7 responses
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
5 Feb 08
All I know is that people used to be very happy back in 1955.
I don't know what happen, but we are entering crazy time on Earth, when we have more and less happiness...
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
5 Feb 08
We were married on Oct 8th 1955, and we went on a Honeymoon camping trip to Florida. It was about 1800 miles to florida from Central Ont. Canada and we planned to be away from home for 3 weeks and spend $300.00. I had a nice car which cost $1400.00 It was a 53 Pontiac with a radio and fender skirts. There were no RV parks, so when we were tired we just pulled off the road, parked in the ditch and put up our tent. Once in West Virginia a policeman stopped his car to ask what we were doing. We explained, and he just laughed, and said," Have Fun!" Once we stopped at a farmhouse and asked if we could camp on the Farmers front yard. The Farmer thought we were crazy and invited us in to use the spare bedroom. When we declined he said,"Ok but promise me you won't leave before daylight!? I said "sure!" I think he was worried that we might take something away with us. In Memphis Tn. we saw Segregated Restrooms and Water Fountains and Had a Flat tire on the car. We stopped at a service station where there were 4 black boys (supposedly) working. They promised to fix the tire but they were having so much fun telling stories that it took them all afternoon to get the job done.Everything went well until we got back to Syracuse Ny. where the clutch went out of the car. We were stranded on Sunday morning in the city. I asked for help at an Open Service Station, (most closed on Sunday) and the attendant phoned a friend who did repair work. The man came right over and took the old clutch out But the car had been made in Canada and the regular American Part would not fit. He soon found that a Half-ton clutch intended for a truck would fit, so he installed that, and we were away. He had worked most of the day on Sunday and fixed the car. The bill came to $30.00.
WE arrived home 2 weeks to the day after the wedding and I had $100.00 in my pocket to begin Married life On.
@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
5 Feb 08
Camping roadside..I remember doing that as a kid a few times and that was back in the 70's. Love your story, barehugs. That sounds like it was a very memorial trip to tell the kids and grandkids about. And cheap at that compared to prices now.
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@estherlou (5015)
• United States
5 Feb 08
Those are great! A lot could have been said yesterday. Most are before my time, since I'm 58, but I do remember gas wars and 29 cent gas and we lived through duck tail haircuts. Thanks for sharing this...it was fun to read.
@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
5 Feb 08
Your welcome..I found it very interesting to read as well and thought some of my fellow mylotters would like to take a 'trip' back in time when the pace was alot slower than it is now.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
5 Feb 08
The more things change, the more things stay the same. I remember my parents complaining about the price of stamps, and how immoral those Hollywood actresses were, and we had to hide the Hollywood Magazines because dad and mom did not approve. The othres things we never heard about because my parents could not drive, but they did not like the duck tails the boys wore. but it was not that they grew them, it was that good boys did not have ducktails, only gangsters and bad boys. I was twelve years old at the time, so that did not concern me then.
@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
5 Feb 08
I wasn't even born yet but I can still relate to some of these comments since I remember making some myself in th 70's and 80's about the price of gas and ciggerettes.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
26 Mar 08
Thank you for the best response and it was nice bringing up memories of the past.
@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
27 Mar 08
Your welcome, suspenseful. Glad I shared the good memories of years gone by.

@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
6 Feb 08
My Dad is alot like that. He lives up in Michigan and raises cows, chickens, turkeys, ect. and grows tons of stuff in his garden. They can or freeze most all of it so they don't have much they have to buy at the store. I'd love to live like that...
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@blackbriar (9075)
• United States
5 Feb 08
lol Neither was I, danzer. I should of mentioned that this came in an email to me lil while ago and found it very interesting to share with my friends here. Back in the 70's and 80's, I do recall mentioning the price of gas, ciggerettes, and cars. Specially the gas when it was under a buck a gallon. Would love to see those prices again.







