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From: Sewing Oodles
Date: 01-17-2004, 09:41 AM (1 of 8)
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(1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.00." (2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $2,000 will only buy a used one." (3) "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous." (4) "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?" (5) "If they make a minimum wage of $1, nobody will be able to afford to hire help at a store.." (6) "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 car in the garage, " 7) "Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls," (8) "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." (9) "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." (10) "Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $25,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday that they will be making more than the President." (11) "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now." (12) "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet." (13) "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work." (15) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business." (16) "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes a quarter of our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to Congress." (17) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on." (18) "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $10.00 a night to stay in a hotel." (19) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood." (20) "It really amazes me, now that more and more homes have televisions in them I am afraid that everyone is going to be sitting around and not going out to the movie shows and playing ball in the park. I wonder if any of this will cause a permanent impact on society that will last 50 years?" Hugz,
Cindy~Texas |
User: Sewing Oodles
Member since: 07-29-2002 Total posts: 69 
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From: MaryW
Date: 01-18-2004, 07:40 AM (2 of 8)
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I still smile at these, I can remember my Dad saying "$2.00 for a case of beer is robbery" LOL. In those days it was 12 glass bottles too.
MaryW
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Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: Karebear
Date: 01-18-2004, 02:50 PM (3 of 8)
the time of my life at the drive in theatre in a blue and white 1957 chevy impala  OH I might add that was in 1965, I will see if I can remember what the movie was !! LOL LOLThanks for the memories... in 1957 my mother was hooked on the only 15 minutes of the soap opera "Guilding Light" shown on CBS... Karen Karen
http://www.dancingwicks.com "If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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Member since: 01-24-2002 Total posts: 338 
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From: Magot
Date: 01-18-2004, 05:27 PM (4 of 8)
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..... I was being born...backwards (You might have known!)
love and kisses, Jan
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From: AdvaP
Date: 01-18-2004, 09:20 PM (5 of 8)
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i was born in 1957. where i grew up there was no tv until 10 years later! imagine that!
Adva Price
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User: AdvaP
Member since: 10-15-2000 Total posts: 325 
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From: Mom of Six
Date: 01-18-2004, 10:34 PM (6 of 8)
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These are great. I don't remember much about 1957 because I was only 3 months old when it started. Barb Barb
Happiness is having time to sew!! |
User: Mom of Six
Member since: 11-03-2001 Total posts: 1115 
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From: barb woolman
Date: 02-02-2004, 02:52 PM (7 of 8)
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what a wonderful trip down memory lane.Iwas in my 2nd of nursing that year& I'm sitting here reminising.It's amazing to me how the years fly by & what an exciting journey it's been. Barb W. |
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Member since: 01-16-2004 Total posts: 17 |
From: JEAN
Date: 02-09-2004, 07:39 PM (8 of 8)
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I turned six that January, must have been in 1st grade... when people walked on the moon, later... I didn't think it was such a big deal, "Yea, So...?" kind of attitude, like doesn't it happen every day? Also "what's the point?" I still wonder that. We didn't have a tv till I was about 7-8 yrs old, remember walking 2 blocks to watch one program at the pastors home once a week with my family. I remember thinking that when i grew up and married, we'd be well off if he brought home $400. a month. Boy! money needs spandex now to stretch if that's what you make. |
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Member since: 01-20-2000 Total posts: 225 |
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