Comments made in the Year 1955! Thats only 53 years ago!  

Great comments from people all those years ago. I bet they would all die of shock if they had the hard times of this last year.

I really enjoyed (and Laughed) reading all of those. Great article and very intereting indeed.

"'Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to
be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.'"

Well, nice to know some things haven't changed lol.

Great article. So many things remain the same as so many change. We still complain about the price of groceries and gas. And it seems that kids never change. I once read that Socrates had the same complaint about teenagers. Funny that for a time all the boys did wear their hair as long as the girls. I remember those ducktail hair dos for the boys. The teachers also worried about the boys pants riding on the hips too. They had to wear a belt to school. I believe a lot of things have gone down hill since then such as the language in the movies. It has really gotten bad. Not just the language but the se* too. I wonder how we will compare in another 55 years

Hi barehugs, As they say "them were the days", but those comments sound very funny now. I think they still say "hell" and "damn" in movies once in a while lol. I remember these times very well although I was still in High school. My parents had an income of less than $100.00 a month for a family of five. My mother cut my hair, we couldn't afford the 50 cents and we didn't have a car. Well we've seen a few changes since then, I wonder what the next 53 will bring if anyone is around to see it? Blessings.

Rumor has it that Thomas Watson, the president of IBM who made the company great (unlike now) said that he thought there was a world market for maybe 5 mainframe computers.

I have old computer magazines where they commented on the wonders of 2 floppy drives or a 10 Meg hard drive..who could ever need more storage than that. Of course at one time 64K of memory was huge (if you remember these things in the not too distant past, please respond and let me know).

I remember when Apple came out with the first GUI (windows like) interface (way before Microsoft) and they said it would never be in color due to processor and memory constraints.

They guy who masterminded UPS was also told by a college professor that his company would never work.

Orville Wright said that no plane will ever be able to fly from NY to Paris.

1955 was the not only time in history that people lacked foresight.

Wow that was cute and amusing, really made me giggle.

I was a teenager at the time. I remember my parents going balistic because of the duck tail haircuts and complaining about the cost of stamps. At least we got medical insurance then. Back then we had to pay to go to the hospital. In fact, when I had to get my eyes operated on, my father wanted me to give him $200 of what I did not have. Yes times were different then. Oh and we could not use the word Stupid in front of my father.

wow, thats interesting! it just goes to prove that complaining is the normal way of life! i am a huge history fanatic and its interesting in regards to things that people were talking about things that they were not sure about happening (ie: walking on the moon) i like to read books about the 20th century and the progress that was made.