Comments Made in the Year 1955 (Makes You wonder about 50 Years in the Future)

email ^ | 1/24/2008 | unknown

[lonestar]

Gas was .29 per gallon at the good stations in the late fifties, .32 for regular leaded. Ethyl cost a couple cents more.

In the late 60's I lived in Houston; had an Exxon station at the end of my street. I regularly paid 22-23 cents but during gas wars we paid 17 cents.

We always got Green Stamps with our gasoline----and they had nothing to do with environmental issues!

[hinckley buzzard]

Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a yearjust to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President

I don't know about ballplayers but in 1955 the president's salary was $35,000 a year.

[hinckley buzzard]

"Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?"

First Class postage was 3c in 1955 and didn't go to 4c until 1960. Somebody just made this stuff up, somebody who wasn't alive in 'fifty-five.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Not if they had listened to Lucille Bogan's "Shave 'Em Dry"...

Exactly the song I thought of when I read that post. These kids today think they invented everything.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Somehow we always survive "today being as bad as its ever been"

"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?"--Plato

[roadcat]

“When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29cents a gallon.”
Somebody must have just made some of these up,In 1955 I was paying 13.9 cents/gal.
Just before the crunch hit in 1974 we were paying 26.9 cents/gal.

Yup, that's right. I was working as a gas station attendant in 1974. Who would of thought that someday customers would be pumping their own gas? (Besides pumping gas, I had to wipe car windows, fill the air in tires, and check the oil and water on every car or risk getting fired.)

[zeebee]

It’s bad enough to get fwd email spam in my inbox. I don’t need to see it on FR.