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TheDealer
02-18-2005, 08:03 AM
(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,"

( "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."


(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."



(1 "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."

Ross
02-18-2005, 08:48 AM
Here I go showing my age again. Two big things stand out from my youth as indicators of price/wage spirals:

1. The term "$50,000.00 house" meant a real mansion

2. The term "5 figure income" meant that you were really doing well

dwasson
02-18-2005, 08:59 AM
I remember when doing well meant earning your age. If you were 40 and made $40K you were making good money.

wchain
02-18-2005, 09:34 AM
I remember when doing well meant earning your age. If you were 40 and made $40K you were making good money.


I remember making $4.50 an hour and thinking I was really something......

Bluerauder
02-18-2005, 09:45 AM
(5) "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store."
Ah Yes, I remember 1957 ... 2nd grade & '57 Chevy Bel Airs. :D

I made $1.00 an hour at my first job ... 1966 ... My introduction to taxes was rather abrupt and rude on my first real payday when I saw that Uncle Sam took my 40 hours and I was left with only $28. :(

gdmjoe
02-18-2005, 10:09 AM
More ... Back in the old days reminiscence .....

1965
First real job was as a dishwasher at a restraunt for .75cents / hour.
*Quit after a few months for a better paying job ( $1.25 - minimum wage ) as as grocery store bagger / stock-boy.
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1970
Had just gotten married and ...
- Bought a new deluxe 3 bedroom ranch on 2 acres in a sub-division ( $16,000 ).
- Furnished the house with new furniture and appliances.
- Bought a new 351 CJ Torino ( $2100 ).
- Had a 2year old pick'm-up and a 1year old crotch-car ( motorcycle ).
- Made $6200 / year as a computer operator.
*Was livin' the hi-life .....

The rest is well, just history ... :D

Ross
02-18-2005, 10:10 AM
Yep, my first job was in 1967 at Jack in the Box. A buck an hour. Hell, can't buy a gallon of gas for that anymore!

ckadiddle
02-18-2005, 10:39 AM
I remember when doing well meant earning your age. If you were 40 and made $40K you were making good money.
UUhhhhhh .. I still consider that a pretty good yardstick.:o Some of you guys are in a different tax bracket than I am.

Patrick
02-18-2005, 11:36 AM
I remember making $4.50 an hour and thinking I was really something......

I still dont make that know!!!!

Sully008
02-18-2005, 11:40 AM
I remember when doing well meant earning your age. If you were 40 and made $40K you were making good money.

I must be slightly ahead of the game then. :D But then again, I'm making it in Canadian dollars. :depress:

Bigdogjim
02-18-2005, 02:36 PM
Goes to show how thing have changed?

MarauderMark
02-18-2005, 03:45 PM
I heard of this stuff .Oh My bad this is an old foggy thread .:lol:.

jgc61sr2002
02-18-2005, 04:33 PM
1957 was a good year. :D Ray thanks for the memories.

JDC 302
02-18-2005, 04:54 PM
Trying to figure out where to put the gas in a car back then, was always interesting.
Car designers loved to hide the gas caps...Behind things such as taillights..