It looks like prices have increased a little in the last 52 years

[trap50]

That's only 52 years ago!
Comments made in the year 1955:
"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 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,'

it seems every new movie has either "hell" or "damn" 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." Know friends who would get a kick out of

these? Pass it on!

[24 on/ 48 off]

Yep. Nobody gets mad over $3.00/gallon gasoline. It's just the way it is now.

--spud--

[Joe Schwab]

I paid $12,500 for a new 3br home in Lake Grove in '69. A friend told me "some day these houses will sell for $50,000" I told him he was nuts!