Humor - comments from 1957

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Humor - comments from 1957

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All I can say is, I was born much too late... :(


Subject: 1957

Comments made in the year 1957

"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 'darn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every new movie has either "hell" or "darn" 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."
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"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 bad 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."
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I remember paying $.50 for a haircut!
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When I was 18, I bought a box of 250 Grain .348 Silver tips. Price was $7.00. Seemed high even then though, gas was 24.9 a gallon.
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Hobie wrote:I remember paying $.50 for a haircut!
At Ft Leavenworth in 1972, you could go to the prison barber shop where the inmates cut hair for a quarter. This one HUGE black guy that cut hair would tell someone new in his chair that he was in for life because he cut a guy's throat with a razor....of course, he was trimming you with a razor when he told you this......Ah, the good old days.....
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Post by GANJIRO »

I remember as a kid going to the boat harbor with my Dad to buy fuel for his Diesel Mercedes Benz 190D and the Diesel cost just 10 cents a gallon. I remember when a Hamburger was a 15 cents and a ice cream cone a dime.
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I can remember me and mom walking to mr johnsons store ..
I get a king size coca cola and a butternut candy bar for .15
while she used the only phone in the neighborhood .. A PARTY LINE !!!

darn that hurts :-) :-)

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My first allowance was a quarter a week. My brother and I, along with two of our friends, would walk to the IGA each Saturday morning, buy a soda, candy bar and 5 pieces of gum, then walk back to a little bridge to enjoy our treats. We'd toss the bottles in the creek and try to sink them with rocks before they filled up and sank themselves.

I bet there must be 1,000 bottles in that spot... :)
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