Southside High School,
Selma, Alabama
Remember 1957?
This is another
item that has been floating around the internet. Thanks goes to
Pam Terry South (1976). Although not all of us are old enough to remember
all of
these items, a lot it continued into our day...and it is what our parents talked
about.
Do you REALLY REMEMBER 1957?
I
know some of you are not old enough to remember some of this...but I still hope
you enjoy it.
Remember this?
The following were some comments made in the year 1957:
(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 $5,000 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 raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire
outside help at the 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 $75,000 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."
(14)
"I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot
of foreign business."
(15)
"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."
(16)
"The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I
seriously doubt they will ever catch on."
(17)
"I guess taking a vacation is out of the question now days. It costs nearly
$15.00 a night to stay in a hotel."
(18)
"No
one can afford to be sick any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for
my blood."
