Quotes
From The 50’s
'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 cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,
000.00 will only buy a used one.
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 some day cost 29
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 anymore. 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 have
to work to make ends meet. It won't be long before young couples are going to
have to hire some one 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
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 pay 50 cents for a haircut, forget it.'
Sent
by Patti Iverson from Medford, Oregon.