50s Generation

Comments Made in the year 1957

 

• 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.

• “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.”

• “Have you seen the new card coming out next year? It won’t be long before $5,000 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 gar in the garage.”

• “Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail haircuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.”

• “If they think I’ll Pay 50 cents for a haircut, forget 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 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 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 both can work.”

• “Marriage doesn’t mean a thing anymore; those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.”

• “I’m just 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; $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood.”

 

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We are a generation that will never come back

 

A generation that walked to school and walked back.

A generation that did their homework alone to get outside ASAP to play in the street.

A generation that spent all their free time on the street.

A generation that played hide and seek when dark.

A generation that made mud cakes.

A generation that collected sports cards.

A generation that found, washed and sold empty coke bottles to the local grocery store for 5 cents each.

A generation that made paper toys with their bare hands.

A generation that bought vinyl albums to play on record players.

A generation that collected photos and albums of clippings.

A generation that played board games and cards on rainy days.

A generation whose TV went off at midnight after playing the National Anthem.

A generation that had parents who were there.

A generation that laughed under the covers in bed so parents don’t know we were still awake.

A generation that could walk anywhere alone.

A generation that could leave your bike unlocked.

A generation that your parents “always” knew where you were, even if you told them something different.

A generation that is passing and unfortunately will never return!!…

 

 

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