55 years ago

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 $10.00.'

'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $1,000.00 will only buy a used one.'

'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.'

'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents 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 petrol would someday cost 25 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 D*** in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either H*** or D*** 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 $50,000 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 government.'

'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 $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'

'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.'

'If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

big g wrote:

This new thing called a Telephone. Ha! it will never catch on. What are they going to do, Stretch wires all over the country? Nice novelty, but i would'nt invest a dime in it!.

THANKS FOR SHARING

i remember when gas was 10 cents a gal. to smoke was 15 cents a pack pop was 10 cents a bottle. those were the good days but no more

I'll pass the word

I remember paying 17 cents for a gallon of gas. .08 for a bottle of pop and .03 for a candy bar (can't remember the name of the candy)

Mason and Kodiakamn, how old are you fellows???? I can remember five cents for a candy bar, and the rich city kids told me that you could even get six candy bars for a quater!!!! And find a pop bottle and turn it in for 2 cents.

pop bottles paid 1 cent each. i am 55. candy was a nickel super bubble gum was 3 pieces for a penny. daddy said when he was little you made 5 cents a day for working go to the store and fill a sack up for 1.00 now you can't even buy the sack for a 1.00 he is 80

all phones were party lines.Grandparents in Wv had the old crank phone .Can remenber mom an dad wondering where the'd get 10dollars to heat the house for winter even remenber gas wars with gas as low as 3cent a gallon and they gave green stamps with that

Get gas and they would pump it, clean the window, check oil in motor and trans, give you a glass or a hand ful of green stamps. I wasn't old enough to drive, but I do remember them pumping the gas, Pay phones 10 cents.

hey at some locations we still pump gas

I THINK KODIAKMAN IS ONE DAY OLDER THAN DIRT! JUST KIDDING KENNY. CAN'T WAIT TO RIDE WITH ALL YOU GUY'S AND GAL'S AT THE FALL RIDE

TBONE21 wrote:

hey at some locations we still pump gas

Tbone....ask your family about the good old days....they probley remember wen it was normal to pump gas when someone drove up

TBONE21 wrote:

hey at some locations we still pump gas

Tbone....ask your family about the good old days....they probley remember wen it was normal to pump gas when someone drove up

I remember growing up pumping peoples gas! I did it when I was a kid at one of our stores.

TBONE21 wrote:

I remember growing up pumping peoples gas! I did it when I was a kid at one of our stores.

all right tbone....you a member of the good old days,,,,way to go..........

hahahaha GREAT!!!!!!!! I need a flag and a trophy now!!!