[DManA]

1953 Dad Anderson to Mom Anderson: Wanna get frisky.

DManA b. January 1954

[sodpoodle]

School teachers are spending so much time on discipline and so little time on math - one of these days 53+53 will equal 110.

[Sacajaweau]

I was livid when my son was born 10 minutes before midnight. We had to pay for him for the whole day...$20.00.

What made it worse...they had induced labor. I should have sued.

[AlaskaErik]

Check your math...1953 was 57 years ago!

[La Lydia]

What a delicious dip into Old-fogeyland.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

When I saw the headline, I thought it was something Obama had said. (Sorry)

[hinckley buzzard]

Way too many anachronisms. If you want to make up a phoney baloney article fine, but do the research first so you don't stumble all over yourself before you even get started.

[Venturer]

Remember when a Three Muskateers bar cost a nickel and it was big enough for two friends and you.

Ice Cream was a nickel a scoop, and they used to make litle loaves of bread that they gave away as samples.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Spinning wheels to no where. No longer a $1 hr wage, but no 12 cent loaf of bread, a $13,000 house or a new car for $1200. So now we make well over $1 an hour, its up to $8?, so what, a loaf of bread is over $1, a house maybe 120K a car closer to 25K. So what really improved? Most of us are no better off today than our parents and grand parents were in 1953. But one thing is different, we sure as hell had one great guy as a President back then. :o)

[Vendome]

Uhm, ain’t that more like 57 years ago?

LOL

[RobRoy]

Motel 6 got its name from the price they charged for a room. Yeah, six bux.

[Michael.SF.]

1953 History Teacher: We have 48 Stars on the flag, one for each state. Someday we may have 57 stars on the flag and even a negro as President.

[JRios1968]

Holy crap, I have traveled in time to 2006!!!!

[x]

Not to be too much of a pedant about it, but this is obviously fake.

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

First class postage was 3 cents in 1953 and went up to 4 cents in 1958. It didn't reach 10 cents until the 1970s.

But it is kind of funny. Postage going up a penny was once a big thing because rates had been stable for decades (2 cents from 1885 to 1932, with a temporary increase for WWI, 3 cents from 1932 to 1958). Nowadays rates go up 2 or 3 or 4 cents at a jump and there's an increase ever other year or so.

[Joe 6-pack]

"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."

Actually it was Babe Ruth, who around 1930 became the first ball player to earn more than the president. It was a minor scandal, and when asked how he felt about it by a reporter, declared, "I know, but I had a better year than Hoover."

[paulycy]

That's only 53 years ago!

Years were longer then, I guess.

[Fiji Hill]

I’ll certainly take the popular culture—popular music, movies, stage productions, etc.—of 1953 over that of today. However, when it comes to sports, USC may have won the 1953 Rose Bowl Game, but the UCLA Bruins were a growing force that would overpower the Trojans later in the year.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Something’s wrong here

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

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When I was a kid in the 60’s, a postcard was 4 cents and a letter was five cents. 10 cents in 1953? I don’t think so.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

I was making $105 a week in 1963 as a Chief Engineer of a TV station. I also bought a 1964 Chevrolet Super Sport with a big engine and leather seats and paid for it in 3 years!

Memorable days for the young!

[oldvike]

Your math sucks but I sure did enjoy your post!