slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

If you are as old as I am, you either remember these comments from 1955-ish, or just forgot:

"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 will only buy a used one."

"If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. Twenty five cents a pack is ridiculous."

"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging ten cents just to mail a letter?"

"If they raise the minimum wage to $1 an hour, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."

"When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would some day cost 29 cents a gallon? Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage."

"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."

"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."

"I'm afraid the Volkswagon car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business."

"The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

"There is no sense going on short trips 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 will pay 50 cents for a haircut...forget it!"

Ring any bells?

MrEd Loc: Georgia

You rang to many bells really. I h**e to admit it, but I remember every one of them. I was just a kid then, but I remember my parents talking about most of these. Sure wish I could get gas for .29 cents now............

Loki Loc: Georgia

At least I don't have to worry about haircuts anymore. You have provided us with something of a conundrum: When you are old enough to remember these things, you are probably too old to remember them.

grace scott

I remember. 1955 was the year I got married.

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

Well they call it progress don't they.

That is when you pay more for less.

Loki Loc: Georgia

Like specialization: You know more and more about less and less, until finally you know everything about nothing.

funguy1949

Im not as old but very dang close I do remember going to the movies with a dollar got popcorn paid for the movie got a pop went there an back on a bus an still had change left over.worked at the gas station"full service" an watched the gas wars go from 33.9 cents to 0.5 cents a gallon OH THE GOOD OLD DAYS when money was money but in reality no one had that much but life was more simpler.when a dollar was a dollar.Cigs were .15 cents an no one gave a dang about where you smoked except your parents,mostly outside.for them.After going into the service my Dad would jock about him not having to buy the hole store but now only half of it since the garbage disposal "ME" had left when no one realy new what a garbage bisposal reallywas since no one back then had one only a saying back then. Except if you were a human eating machine or a goat,but in reality most of what we had back then came from hunting even at 10 years old we knew gun safty back then, fishing we also knew how to clean our own game, freash vegitables from the garden.

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rjoeholl

Remember Dick Tracey's wrist radio? Rock and Roll was just a fad? The first remote control? Mighty Mouse?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

I'm at that stage, now. :oops:

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

We used to get into the 25th St. theatre, in Waco, for Saturday matinees, free...with three empty milk cartons of the local brand. It was their way of promoting their product. We all drank that brand....can't remember the name of it, though. Buck Rogers was a staple on Saturday.

BTW, I suspect we were both born in 1949. Many of these memories are of hearing my elders speak of such. :wink:

pixie

oh yeah...it rang mine..lol...was just telling grandkids the price of things when i was growing up versus todays!...BIG BIG difference!

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

I was born in 1954 but I do remember a brand new 55 Pontiac my parents bought. As I grew up in the 60s I saw 29 cent gas $1.10 minimum wage and $65.00 a month rent even into the early 70s I once thought $5.00 an hour was a great job and my first new car was $2332.00 sticker price. I went to the movies for 35 cents and ate hamburgers for 15 cents Times have changed.

Paul Andy

Thanks for the post! I heard the Statler Brother's singing, "Ah, do you remember these,?" in my mind's ear as I read it...

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

:thumbup: Perfect! :mrgreen:

talksalot

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Sure does. We lived in the best of times.