NOSTALGIA ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE!!  (I'm sorry I couldn't help myself)

Oh, how well I remember.

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 $5000 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)  "Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to

be getting divorces at the drop of a hat."

(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

half 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 $15.00 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."

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