Comments made in the year 1955!

That's only 54 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 $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 gas 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 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 $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.'

Interesting thoughts Barbara, I was 6 back in 55 but do remember those things & we still refer to them as the good old days.

Let’s come 10 years on; my pay when I first started work was 2 pound 10 shillings a week, the decimal equivalent being $5.00, if I was to buy a meat pie it would cost 10c or 2% of my pay.

Lets come 44 years on to today & my pay @ $900 per week a pie costs $6.00 or .67% of my pay.

Let’s try the cost of a motor car in comparison:

In 1965 a standard Holden sedan cost $3000, to pay that car off my folks would have to devote my Dads full pay to the payments for a period of 11.5 years.

Come to today & the cost of a standard Holden sedan (now called a Commodore) is $34,490, if I was to devote all of my pay to repayments on this car it would now only take 38.5 weeks.

It’s no wondering my folks kept that old car until 1988.

And we still call them THE GOOD OLD DAYS; Why? Because although we where poorer financially we where a lot richer in soul.

Cheers
Barry

Barry_T_Coles wrote on Jun 17^th, 2009 at 8:30pm:

I was 6 back in 55 but do remember those things

GEEZO MAN!!!

You are OLD!!!

I was only 5 in 1955 ...

Chuck,the youngster ...

(But, I ain't agonna tell Barry that I remember them too!)

Interesting Barb.

Born in 55 and now when I look back I am more and more convinced we lived in the best time that every will be.

Metairie, a brand new suburb of New Orleans, is where I grew up. It was/is reclaimed swampland on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Nothing was too far for your bike.  Sand lot football, basketball at the school yard, fishing and swimming in the Lake..I could go on and on. Every day at dark we would come home to eat (at the table) and my mom would always say, "Y'all smell like dogs.

Then we got cars. Too much fun. I'll stop there.

But I would like to add that the core of my friends that I met at age 7,(5 of us, of which 2 are now on the other side), and most all of the many, many who joined in along the way, still get together for special events and throw down crawfish regular.

I don't know if today's kids will ever know what they are missing.
Maybe I'm just remembering the good. But I got a boat-load of good memories and I believe it's because of the times.

Rock and Roll. Man on the Moon. What a trip. What a dream.

Steve G

In 1946, I was too young to remember much but a few years on, in 1949 we got our Meck TV. Buffalo tv started at 4:00 PM and went off the air at 11:30. Newscasts were 15 minutes.

I remember mailing letters for 3 cents.
McDonalds hamburgers were 15 cents in 1955. Cheeseburgers were 20 cents. They were tiny things and not like today's.

Pepsi was a dime, coffee was a dime too with a refill, with a dougnut, 20 cents. Ground beef at 49 cents a pound.

I remember coin slot pay tvs in motels...always had to add a quarter every 20 minutes. Bowling was 35 cents a game and it cost me a 20 cents to ride the bus.

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