Comments made in the year 1955:

[CelticWinter]

I recieved this in my email and got a chuckle out of it and thought I would share with you.
Celtic

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 $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. Gues s 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 b e 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 anymore; 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 seri ously 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 anymore; $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood.'
'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a haircut, forget it.'

[RebelOne]

1. Since I'm older than dirt, I remember 1955 well.

One comment made by a date when we drove into a gas station was, "I'm not going to pay 35 cents a gallon for gas. Let's go to another station."

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. Babe Ruth was paid $80,000 per year

for the 1930 and '31 seasons — $5,000 more than President Herbert Hoover.

When someone pointed this out to Ruth, he said, "What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. I've seen this before.

It's right wing "the good old days were better" horseshit.


As far as "the government will be taking half our income in taxes" is concerned, I believe the highest tax rate during Eisenhower's presidency was NINETY-TWO PERCENT (92%).

And it's obvious that whoever wrote this thinks that if a child hears a "dirty" word, their brain will melt, because of the comment about Clark Gable saying "damn". Frank Zappa testified to a Senate Committee about that.

Kinky Friedman said "Some people get upset if you say 'fuck' in front of a c-h-i-l-d.".

And if the "boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls", who cares?
The only reason you would need to know the gender of a person would be if you were intending to have intercourse with them.

This is right wing horse shit, plain and simple. Yes, things were cheaper then, but they weren't perfect. Segregation was law, birth control was illegal in many states even for married couples (Griswold v. Conn., 1967), interracial marriage was a crime (Loving v. Va., 1968), so forth and so on. Racial discrimination and sex discrimination were legal. We had no words for "sexual harassment" and "Date rape". Those were called "Mean things that some men do to women". And women had to suck it up and not be believed by the authorities.


Women have worked outside the home all through history. And black women have left their own children at home alone to take care of white children, so they wouldn't starve.