Who remembers 1957?

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DaddySundown

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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."

"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2000 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, 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 car in the garage."

"Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls."

"I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying '****' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every new movie has either "hell" or "****" 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 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 can both work."

"Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; 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 a night to stay in a hotel."

"No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."

"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it."
 
what did you do?? Fall and hit your head?? Man, something jarred your memory.....LOL :lol: :lol: :lol:

In 1957 I was (-12) so that made my dad something like 9 or 10...LOL....I wonder if he remembers?? :lol:
 
I remember filling up my gas tank for $5.00 back in 1969 at 29 cents a gallon.

Remember price wars at the pumps? I saw it down to 16 cents a gallon once.

Hospital stays are up around $2,300 a day and all I got was basic cable and crappy food.
 
How about this.........

1957..... The grand plan of having a coast to coast highway system is in full swing.

My parents were "asked" to sell part of their farm that had been in the family for many years "for the good of the Nation"............

Dad sold the few acres necessary for the Illinois State Tolway (I-90 west of Chicago) to be built. This just happened to be the few acres that the house and barnyard occupied.......... After a few years of renting the land to other farmers, He got tired of managing it all and sold it for the going rate.

Today, that land is home to a major (Humana) hospital, several resturants, a Menard's store, TWO hotels, Two large office complex, a large storage facuility, the local village hall, a Theatre, a banquet hall , the corprate headquarters of (formerly) AT&T Telephone, one of the nicest resturant/country clubs around, and several acres of Forrest Preserve. (for the locals,east and south of I-90 and Barrington Rd.)

............If Dad only knew, I'd have a real Unlimited hydro to play with!

Bob the Fool :blink:
 
Jerry,,

how big is Crete Illinos? I knew a girl named Laura Glazbrook from there......cool girl, haven't seen her in ages. But, it's probably like knowing a needle in a haystack, huh?
 
Jerry,,
how big is Crete Illinos?  I knew a girl named Laura Glazbrook from there......cool girl, haven't seen her in ages.  But, it's probably like knowing a needle in a haystack, huh?

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Rodney,

Crete is a village with a population of about 16,000 now, but the township is also named Crete so there is a large rual area. I have lived here 33 years and don't know the name. I'll ask the kids, the youngest is 28 so maybe you should give me an age bracket.

Ken,

Kiss off you'll be and old fart pretty soon also. Did you ever get your boats out of the trailer yet? I'm almost ready for warm water, I'm retired you know.

LOL

Jerry :D :D
 
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