Comments made in the year 1955!  

What kind of a comment are those? Made in the year 1955? Wow, I was not yet born then.

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...

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.

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.

Hi friend thanks for sharing this situation , it happens every where. Each and every senior member experience this. See when I started my carrear as a lecturer my salary was three hundred fifty ruppes per month in 1968. Three hundred was enough for a month's expenses. When I retired in 2006 it was thirty thousand rupees per month.A kilogram of meat cost was ten ruppes then and one hundred and sixty rupees now.
DR.B.SARAF Ph.D.

What's sad is these are all completely accurate :) Man, I would have loved to have grown up in that era.

!!HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

**AT PEACE WITHIN**

~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~

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.

Thank you for the best response and it was nice bringing up memories of the past.

Oh my but I remember alot of these. I was born in 53, and let me tell you what. Time was great growing up then. A kid could be a kid. The only fear most of us had was if your teacher called your parents because you knew you'd be walking into a lecture or a spanking.
We use to go to drive in restaurants, drive in movies, daddy would rent a house at VA beach for 3 weeks for like 200.00 a week and that was a premium and during the peak summer months.
I'd give anything to go back to those days. Personally it was better. We will never see them again tho.
It's scary thinking what it will be like when my grand children have all grown.
Thanks for the pleasant memories.