Comments made in the year 1957:

Andy · 12-31-2006, 09:00 AM

"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."

H'Islander · 12-31-2006, 09:14 AM

Funny how even 60 years ago we knew things were headed in the wrong direction and still we can't seem to change it....I know one thing, if they put ME in charge I'd muck-up the whole works!

74Formula233 · 12-31-2006, 09:26 AM

Those are pretty funny! You don't notice the changes over the years so much until you take a big step back like that!

Andy · 12-31-2006, 09:31 AM

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."

Seems like yesterday to me LoL.....

Bryan A. · 12-31-2006, 11:29 AM

Makes you think. Is the world really getting worse day by day, as time goes on?

Bob & Mag · 12-31-2006, 03:10 PM

I must be getting old. I remember $.33/gal gas AND they checked your oil, washed the windshield and said THANKYOU!

Bryan A. · 12-31-2006, 04:04 PM

The lowest I can remeber is .98 per gallon, Used to be able to scrape together 6 bucks from everyone to fill the 6 gallon tank on my 15' Boston whaler. That lasted about half the day. Good thing the gas station was up the street from the beach house.

Andy · 12-31-2006, 04:16 PM

Bob remember when they use to give s&h green stamps when you filled up opps maybe your not that old like me

11 cents a gallon for heating oil .

74Formula233 · 12-31-2006, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob & Mag

I must be getting old. I remember $.33/gal gas AND they checked your oil, washed the windshield and said THANKYOU!

Where, at Goober's?

Bob & Mag · 12-31-2006, 08:56 PM

S&H green stamps and Triple S blue stamps.....collected both

Goobers???? He was too young LOL.

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