52 years ago ...PEOPLE WERE SAYING: " 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 $20.00." "Have you seen the new car prices coming out next year? It won't be long before $2, 000.00 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 $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store." "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 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 of 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 just 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 anything any more , those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat." "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 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 $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel." "No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood." "If they think I'll ever pay 50 cents for a hair cut, they can just forget it."
Ok, ok. I'll do it... It was a nice read, but patently false. Sorry. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/1955comments.asp
I take these types of "information" as entertainment more than truth. It's just funny to see how people "might" have thought back then about the world today.
Nothing in particular. I mean even the Encyclopoedia Britannica has been known to be wrong on occasion. However, there are some things on the list that, as Snopes pointed out, are simply not accurate by my personal knowledge. Things such as the one that jumped out and caused me to look it up on Snopes to begin with, and that is the item about astronauts training in Texas. First, the astronauts were not even recruited until 1959, and second they were training in California, not Texas.
The one that jumped out at me was the one about the baseball player making more than the president. But, I still thought it was interesting to read. I like those ones like "You know you're a child of the 80's when..."
OH, NO! Don't question it at all! Especially when Clifford says it's true or not. Clifford seems to know everything and never seems to get booted for calling names or bad language. I guess he kisses enough butt to stay on.
Let's see... I have never been ejected from a forum. I have never run two cell phone businesses (or for that matter even one) out of business. I don't have more than 90% the 4042 forumites hating me. Wherever you think my head is shoved, you should remove your from whatever posterior it's in and join me.
