1955 comments

[flo]

COMMENTS MADE IN THE YEAR 1955

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 $2,000.00 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.

Kids today are impossible.  Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed.  Next thing you know boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.

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 of $75,000.00 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.

Thank goodmess 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 the 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.

[W. Gray]

Flo,

I got quite a kick out of that article but was curious about some of the statements and their applicability to 1955.

Here is what I came up with:

NASA did not come into existence until 1958 and did not put out a call for astronauts until 1959.

First electric typewriter was introduced in the early 1900s. It could be the writer did not see one until 1955.

Volkswagens were introduced in the US in 1949. He might not have seen one until 1955.

A stamp cost three cents in 1955 and did not hit four cents until 1958 and did not hit ten cents until March 1974.

Mickey Mantle signed his $75,000 contract in 1961.

In 1955, the top tax bracket for individuals was, believe it or not, 91 percent.

Minimum wage did go to $1.00 in 1956.

[flo]

yeah, and cigarettes were 27 cents in 1955, but still thought it was a cute e-mail.  Brought back memories to my teenage years.

[flo]

This has been discussed before and needs to be addressed again.  Sometimes things aren't posted as a "history lesson" but just because it is fun reading.  Maybe a comparison then to now.  Some people need to lighten up and get a life.  This will be my last post on this forum.

[Diane Amberg]

Waldo, you are a hoot. And I thought I was fussy! How 'bout we say the early 50s to the early 60s, is that close enough? 

[W. Gray]

I look at it as being curious rather than being fussy.