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Irish
07-09-2004, 10:19 PM
~REMEMBER 1957?

The following were some comments made in the year1957:
(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its going
to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.00."
(2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5,000 will only buy a use done."
(3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous."
(4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"
(5) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.."
(6) "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,"
(7) "Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail haircuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls,"
(8) "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies anymore. 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."
(9) "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."
(10) "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 that they will be making more than the President."
(11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."
(12) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet."
(13) "It won't be long before young couples are goingto have ! to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work."
(14) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."
(15) "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."
(16) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."
(17) "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."
(18) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."

Irish
07-09-2004, 10:24 PM
Alot of you,probably,don't remember these!I do!In the late '60s,I worked at
Sikorsky Aircraft(Conn) as a flight mechanic & crew chief.$3.90/hr was BIG
bucks.Now the minimum wage is ALOT more than that! Irish

dicksbro
07-10-2004, 03:45 AM
(Holds hand up ... )

I remember. I quit smoking six years ago, but I have noticed that the bargain cigarettes now cost more than a carton when I started. :eek:

boilergirl1
07-10-2004, 03:50 AM
one thing i love is to hear about times gone past it's these memories and times shared that make it possible to learn and potentialy improve our present day lives. ty for starting this thread.

Mercury_Maniac
07-10-2004, 04:02 AM
holy crap

Irish
07-10-2004, 08:15 AM
holy crap
Mercury_Maniac---Congratulations,on your infected scrotum.You don't have
to remember that.It will REMIND you! Irish

PantyFanatic
07-10-2004, 10:05 AM
.....(7) "Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail haircuts make it impossible to stay groomed. ....."
I still comb my hair that way.:)






































... then I put it back in the box under my bed. :(

imaginewithme
07-10-2004, 10:07 AM
Wow very interesting stuff...


PF--you're too funny.

jseal
07-11-2004, 06:51 AM
Irish,

Too true. Change is the only constant.