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V8403
April 29th, 2006, 14:51
You will love the following
Comments made in 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."

innersanctum
April 30th, 2006, 22:18
LOL I loved those. Kinda reminds me of when my grandma said that a dime would get you and your date into the movies 2 cokes and 2 popcorns! Granted she was born in 1917 (passed in 2002). She would always remind us to slow down in our lives and try to remind us how simple life was. She was alive during many wars and even though we had not invaded Iraq yet when she passed, I think she knew it was coming.

She would tell us how cars only cost like $200 way back in the day.

It still does in the Philipines.

CplCJ
May 1st, 2006, 05:54
You can get a 200 dollar car in Guam, too. Guam bombs they call them.

V8403
May 1st, 2006, 19:07
Haircuts are $9.00 here in Monmouth now

ToFlyy
May 1st, 2006, 22:27
a hair cut at great clips here in beechmont (cincinnati) costs around $12 a pop

MadMax
May 2nd, 2006, 14:13
Last time I had one it was 9.00 bucks too.

CplCJ
May 2nd, 2006, 14:17
$12-$18 here.

jarvisa
May 2nd, 2006, 15:26
Thank god my sis is in beauty school I get all my stuff done for free.

MadMax
May 2nd, 2006, 15:33
It's all cheap compared to the last time my wife went to the Green Door in Boca Raton. She spent over $250.00. No $hit..

jarvisa
May 2nd, 2006, 15:37
Yeah it used to cost me quite a bit when I went to the fancier places especially becuase my hair was so long and think but in those instances I made my husband pay for it. But that includes coloring and all that other non sense. Now that my sister is almost finished I finally trust her to do my hair the way I want it. I usually tip her like 50 because I know I would be paying close to 200.00 or more if I had went somewhere.

MadMax
May 2nd, 2006, 15:40
Yeah, that was without the tip...

jarvisa
May 2nd, 2006, 15:43
It is hard being a woman.

MadMax
May 2nd, 2006, 15:45
That not the word I would use.

jarvisa
May 2nd, 2006, 15:47
What would you call everything that we get cost more than what men have to buy. (minus all the toys we cant beat you on those)

MadMax
May 2nd, 2006, 15:54
I was referring to the word "hard."

jarvisa
May 2nd, 2006, 15:56
Ok you are right how about it is costly being a woman.

CplCJ
May 3rd, 2006, 06:24
You could always get a different hobbie.

jarvisa
May 3rd, 2006, 08:24
No way I love shopping way tooo much

MadMax
May 3rd, 2006, 09:19
I was thinking along the lines of painful or needy... :eek:

jarvisa
May 3rd, 2006, 09:24
I hardly think needy is right. I pay for all my own bad habit/hobbies all of our finances are completely seperate. I have my bills and money and he has his. Has been that way for 10 years it works for us.

MadMax
May 3rd, 2006, 09:38
I wasn't talking about you, but in general.

jarvisa
May 3rd, 2006, 09:40
I guess you are right I am needy in other ways.

MadMax
May 3rd, 2006, 09:46
Everyone is. Especially Fly.

ToFlyy
May 3rd, 2006, 23:54
how am i needy??? lol

CplCJ
May 4th, 2006, 05:52
Umm. Needy for a haircut...

ToFlyy
May 4th, 2006, 06:26
got one 2 days ago there champ lol still shaggy for this weekends prom at glen este then after that im gettin it marine cut probably by one of my recruiters lol

V8403
May 4th, 2006, 06:44
Makes no dif for boot you will get a shaved head

ToFlyy
May 4th, 2006, 06:50
ill shave it before i leave

MadMax
May 4th, 2006, 10:56
I wouldn't deprive the barbers their fun. There were a couple of guys that did that and they would up getting scarred up pretty bad.

ToFlyy
May 4th, 2006, 21:06
ill keep some hair it will just be kinda short u will see i will post a pic when it happens

ToFlyy
May 4th, 2006, 21:20
lol ok ill put them up later

V8403
May 5th, 2006, 06:17
Price of Gas at the pump $2.98 almost $50.00 to fill the 95 Trans Sport

MadMax
May 5th, 2006, 11:12
Is that where this thread started? I never looked, I just went with a subject... That's grounds for closing...

MadMax
May 5th, 2006, 11:13
And three two one...

CplCJ
May 5th, 2006, 11:13
Still close. The price of gas in '55...today's comparison...(I am reaching...)

MadMax
May 5th, 2006, 11:14
That's what I thought too. Too late