50s Questions

Quotes from the 1950's:

"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 when $5000 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?"

"The Government is wanting to get its hands on everything.
Pretty soon it's going to be impossible to run a family business or farm."

"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 50 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."

"Also, their music drives me wild. This 'Rock
Around The Clock' thing is nothing but racket."

"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 movie has a 'hell'or 'damn' in it."

"Also, it won't be long until couples are sleeping
in the same bed in the movies. What is this world coming to?"

"Pretty soon you won't be able to buy a good 10
cent cigar."

"I read the other day where some scientist thinks
it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the 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."

"Do you suppose television will ever reach our part
of the country?"

"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.”

"I'll tell you one thing. If my kid ever talks back
to me, they won't be able to sit down for a week."

"Did you know the new church in town is allowing
women to wear pants to their service?"

"Next thing you know is, the government will start
paying us not to grow crops."

"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."

"Why in the world would you want to send your
daughter to college. Isn't she going to get married?
It would be different if she could be a doctor or a lawyer."

"I just hate to see the young people smoking. As I
tell my kids, "Don't take a cigarette from ANYONE.
You never know what might be in it."

The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice
weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."

"There is no sense going to St. Louis or Omaha
anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel."

"Anymore no one can afford to be sick, $35 a day in
the hospital is too rich for my blood."

"If a few idiots want to risk their necks flying
across the country that's fine, but nothing will ever replace trains."

"I don't know about you but if they raise the price
of coffee to 15 cents, I'll just have to drink mine at
home."

"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut,
forget it. I'll have my wife learn to cut hair."

. "We won't be going out much anymore. Our baby
sitter informed us she now wants 50 cents an hour. Kids
think money grows on trees."

"Cars which dim their lights by sensors, automatic
transmissions, and who knows what else?
Pretty soon they will have electric windows."

(posted 10/31/00)