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hensylee

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Thought you might like to see these!!! 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 '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."
 
I'll add one more

I'll add one more

I worked at Kress's five and ten on Saturdays and take home pay $3.75..also worked week of Xmas..Had enough to buy Mama Evening in Paris, Daddy..handerchiefs..little sister..doll and brother a yo-yo for Xmas...BonnieP.S. I can still smell the fresh popped popcorn..Yummy
 
Remember the candy counters? Affordable, too. When the malls came in I used to say I wouldn't shop at them if they didn't have a dime store. Lost THAT battle, didn't I?

I worked at McCrory's when in high school - would go to Royal Castle and buy a hamburger w/birch beer (in Miami) for a total of 15 cents - a dime for the small burger and a nickel for the birch beer.
 
Wouldn't have dreamed of drinking beer back then. I was a practicing Baptist and so clean, my children can't believe my life of those days. But, then, most teens in those days were like that. Birch beer is the BEST root beer in the whole world. I found it in Atlanta at one of those kitchen stores and would buy a bunch to bring home, when visiting daughter up there. Then the store closed down - dang. What we got as a teen was served in a frosted mug with the foam running over the top - just like the real stuff. All for a nickel!
 
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