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50 years ago

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 pm
by vbhoutex
Comments made in the year 1956:

That's only 50 years ago!

"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."

"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before
$2000 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, 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'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."

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

"I'm just 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 a night to stay in a hotel."

"No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is too
rich for my blood."

"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it."

In some distant future, aliens will visit the remains of earth and wonder at
why such a marvelous civilization died such an inglorious death. The answer
will not be disease, or overpopulation, or even war. The answer will be they
died of political correctness. A pity really.....


I don't write them. I just post them.

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:35 pm
by CajunMama
Those are funny!!!!!!!!

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:24 pm
by southerngale
:roflmao:

Thanks, I needed that laugh!

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:22 am
by kevin
Very true.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:08 am
by Brent
:roflmao: :lol:

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:03 am
by Pburgh
:cry: :cry: :cry: I remember all of that very well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My first brand new car was a 1972 Ford LTV. It cost me $5,500.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:27 am
by conestogo_flood
Apparantly in 1947 when my grandpa got his first job, he was making $0.09/hour at the small town corner store.

Also, my grandparents house in 1967 when they bought it was $26,000. It's now worth $175,000.

A little more recent, we bought our first house in 1993 for $99,000. Then, we sold it for $180,000 in 2003, and bought a house just a little over the same size for $230,000. Now, the house is worth $301,000. It's been 3 years and the real estate market has sky rocketed across Kitchener/Waterloo.

Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 5:56 pm
by DaylilyDawn
Hey, I resent that remark :D I was born in 1956 :lol:

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:03 am
by petal*pusher
Argh! I remember those statements too Karan!

I tuned 22 in '68 and bought my first new car that year! A beautiful Pontiac LaMans (sp?). When I signed on the dotted line, the price was $2,300.00!

Loved that car! My house rental was $60.00 a month (cute little house!) Of course, that amount was my weekly take-home pay from a 48 hour a week job! Looking back, as a single girl then, it seems I was better at saving $$ than now!....p :wink:

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:10 am
by brunota2003
Wow...scary how alot, if not all, of those things have come true...in just 50 years!!! :eek:

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:12 am
by Pburgh
Pam, if you had that same car today it would be worth a whole lot of $$$$$$. I had one of those too. It was a great car and very sharp looking. SHARP!!!! Do people still say that for something that looks cool? COOL!!!!! Do people still say that for something that is snazzy??? SNAZZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :D :D :ggreen: :cheesy:

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:17 am
by brunota2003
its Pontiac LeMans right? something similar to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pont ... s73sed.jpg
If so...that is a pretty cool looking car...:D

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:28 am
by Pburgh
Yep, that's the car. The 2 door was the best looking. Mine was blue!!

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:15 am
by TexasStooge
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Thanks for the laugh!

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:26 am
by bfez1
My, how times have changed!!! :cry:

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:38 am
by petal*pusher
Here it is Bruno...(I think the one you have is a little newer!)
http://www.classiccarmall.com/carsfs/sale3107.htm


Mine was 2-door......dark green with a light green vinyl top....4 speed! My car payments were $85.00 a month! I sure loved that car.......(sigh)......p :wink:

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:55 am
by brunota2003
cool...thank you...the 2 doors do look better than four...:lol: The one I showed maybe newer...dont know...I had probably seen them in movies before but didnt actually know what it was until now...cool :D

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:59 am
by Pburgh
Hey Pam, did yours have a leather top?? Mine did and I really liked that.

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:14 pm
by petal*pusher
My car had a vinyl top Karan....it was so much fun to drive. The "in" thing to do was to patrol the 3 drive-ins here in town. Not many of us really stopped to get anything....we just made a big loop through town...drove slowly by our friends eating in their cars.....sometimes pushing the clutch in and stepping on the gas to VROOM! VROOM!.....I had forgotten that I was such a showoff!........p :eek: