1955 - 54 years ago - what was said

[hmm]

Can you believe this?

Comments made in the year 1955!


(That's only 53(54) years ago!)



'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.


'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 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.


'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.'

 

[MasterBlaster]

I remember smokes for two bits, lordy!

 

[Mr. Sir]

I remember gasoline for .33 a gallon and Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill wine for .89 a bottle back when I was 13 or so.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I remember when 5.00 bought you a weeks worth of fuel for a VW bug. I also remember making 1.00 an hour LOL

 

[bump_r]

I decided I was old this weekend when I was flippng through TV channes and stopped at a game to see the score. Baltimore versus Miami. I thought to myself as I read the scoreboard "Hey!, The Colts already played this weekend..." Uh, wait a minute...

 

[Al Smith]

Smokes out of a machine had two pennies inside the cellophane ,23 cents .

Gas in '63 was 27 cents regular 29 high test .5 bucks would fill up the average car . T-bone steak was at the most 49 cents a pound if that .Eggs 15 cents a dozen .

Heating oil or diesel was maybe 19 cents .A pair of JC Penny blue jeans about 3 bucks .A good job might pay 2.50 per hour

My dad bought a brand new Olds 98 in 1955 3450 dollars ,about the price of a Caddy . The first TV was nearly 400 bucks. Lots of money in '55.

In '62 or 63 my grandmother bought a new Mac 250 with a bowbar and 18" hard nose with two chains ,around $250 bucks ,a lot of cash for the time .My cousin and myself cut literly thousands of osage orange fence posts with that thing which sold for 50-65 cents a pop .We got a dime out of the deal .

 

[woodworkingboy]

"It's finger lickin' good". Kentucky Fried Chicken opened.

 

[Al Smith]

The "Colonel" was an ornery old fart . They say when he tutered a person he did so in a manner you couldn't second guess what he said .Direct,to the point with every word known to the English language ,the Queens or profane .

 

[woodworkingboy]

I met the colonel, in the lobby of the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco, went up and shook his hand. He looked impeccable in his white suit, a real dapper dude. I couldn't help also noticing that he was surrounded by a large group of middle aged attractive women, that seemed to be fawning over him. Apparently, he had more than just that one recipe.

 

[Al Smith]

Can't say I ever saw the guy .I did however know John R Roshman who started Jax roast beef ,Ponderosa steak houses ,Pappa Johns pizza and heavens only knows other businesses .

Old Jack had a motel locally ,with a little bar called JR's .Every time he blew into town,that's where you could find him .He lived in Sanibel Bell Isle Fla .

The last I heard poor old Jack,in his late 80's now was in a rest home but he could have passed by now .As rich as he was ,he was a little like Arlo Guthrie in that he just wanted to be among the common folk .