Geezer wisdom

Comments made in the year 1955! (I was NOT alive in the 50's!!! :D)



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.
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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.
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If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit; 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.
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Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter.
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If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
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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.
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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.

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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 ..
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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.
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I never thought I’d see the day all our kitchen appliances would

be electric. They're even making electric typewriters now.
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It’s too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.
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It won’t be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.
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I’m afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.
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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. Doh

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The fast food restaurant is convenient for a quick meal, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.
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There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.
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No one can afford to be sick anymore. At $15.00 a day in the hospital, it’s too rich for
my blood.
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If they think I’ll pay 30 cents or a haircut, forget it.:mad:

if only...

I can remember when I was a kid and Cokes went up from 5 cents to 6 cents in the machines.

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Originally Posted by "G"

I can remember when I was a kid and Cokes went up from 5 cents to 6 cents in the machines.

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At least I can save that $.30 for a haircut, ain't got none.

Good ones CN, thanks.

I think I gave 25 cents for my first pack of Lucky Strikes

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Originally Posted by old fuzzy

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Dang Fuzzy........ you're one of THEM????? :(

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Originally Posted by "G"

I think I gave 25 cents for my first pack of Lucky Strikes

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X2, remember grandpa ran little country post office and had. Candy case. Penny candy got 2 for a penny. 10 cents for a loaf of store bread. Gas 9 cents a gallon, and nobody had the money for it.

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Originally Posted by "G"

I think I gave 25 cents for my first pack of Lucky Strikes

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Yep they were 0.25 cents in the machines. Of course I was just a baby,But my Dad told me.

Yeah, we had a store close by where you had to buy gas by the gallons. The pump had a crank and would run the gas up into a glass container on top of the pump. The container was marked with lines for each gallon then once the gas was there a hose run from the container down and that was when you put the gas in the car. I remember when they changed pumps it was confusing because you had to say how much money of gas you wanted. The old pump you would ask for 5 gallons which was a dollar or less and the new pump the big numbers were the amount of money you was spending, so you would look for a 5 to roll up and your tank would over fill... you just pumped 25 gallons!! and spent a months gas money of $5.
This was in the 60's in small town south USA where big changes took forever to happen. Doesn't seem that long ago to me.

I can remember going on a date with $10.00. That would fill up the truck, buy a 6 pk of PBR, go to the drive inn , buy snacks and still have money left over.

I was born in 1950 so i remember a lot of these.