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drawee Champion Author Texas Posts:2,305 Points:448,060 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: Feb 21, 2012 12:48:24 PM Ignore drawee Report Abuse '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 $20.00.' 'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 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 $1.00, 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 of 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 stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.' 'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.' 'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.' 'There is no sense going for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.' 'No one can afford to be sick anymore; at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.' 'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

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'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 $20.00.'

'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 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 $1.00, 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 of 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 stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.'

'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.'

'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.'

'There is no sense going for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'

'No one can afford to be sick anymore; at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.'

'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

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kookiwoogi Champion Author Indiana Posts:7,738 Points:2,773,040 Joined:May 2004	Message Posted: Mar 21, 2012 12:39:09 PM Ignore kookiwoogi Report Abuse Thanks for reminding of the "good ole years".
Hemond Champion Author Providence Posts:8,178 Points:133,485 Joined:Oct 2006	Message Posted: Mar 21, 2012 6:16:16 AM Ignore Hemond Report Abuse Postage stamps went from 3 cents to 4 cents in 1958. They didn't get to 10 cents 'till 1974. In 1955 stamps were 3 cents.
gougenator Champion Author Dallas Posts:29,854 Points:3,244,925 Joined:Aug 2003	Message Posted: Mar 21, 2012 5:00:00 AM Ignore gougenator Report Abuse awesome thread! maybe not gas related,,but i put this on my "like" list
Bus936 Champion Author Lexington Posts:16,444 Points:3,220,005 Joined:May 2004	Message Posted: Mar 21, 2012 4:51:30 AM Ignore Bus936 Report Abuse Good idea, but my friend, stuff like this needs to be in "off topic" column.
MIT05 Champion Author Massachusetts Posts:4,167 Points:1,390,450 Joined:Aug 2008	Message Posted: Mar 21, 2012 12:48:05 AM Ignore MIT05 Report Abuse wronge topic
notnxs383 Champion Author Missouri Posts:2,549 Points:591,340 Joined:Oct 2008	Message Posted: Mar 20, 2012 9:00:12 PM Ignore notnxs383 Report Abuse comment. I don't want no '55 chevy, but would like that T-bird
jcpatriots Champion Author Massachusetts Posts:3,898 Points:598,595 Joined:Sep 2011	Message Posted: Mar 20, 2012 8:39:08 PM Ignore jcpatriots Report Abuse Yeah, it's called inflation. 1955 was 67 years ago, naturally inflation was going to happen over that span of time. But this has nothing to do with gas.
Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,297 Points:2,143,175 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Mar 20, 2012 8:24:29 PM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse There were no astronauts preparing to go to the moon in Texas in 1955. The Manned Spacecraft Center (later to be named the Johnson Space Center) was sited in 1961.
maxstar Champion Author Chicago Posts:18,484 Points:809,545 Joined:Feb 2011	Message Posted: Mar 19, 2012 6:06:44 PM Ignore maxstar Report Abuse drawee: New or not you are just copying and pasting old stuff from the internet. Does the article below look familiar? Comment from the year 1955
OceansidePoms Champion Author Massachusetts Posts:1,680 Points:687,325 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: Mar 19, 2012 4:26:12 PM Ignore OceansidePoms Report Abuse Well, not exactly a "General Gas Talk" topic... But still very interesting... But every year, up $$ & up $$... It's just US History ...
PithyOpiner Champion Author Stockton Posts:16,200 Points:1,596,570 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: Mar 19, 2012 3:07:30 PM Ignore PithyOpiner Report Abuse What year did they say all these things? I don't remember any of them.
drawee Champion Author Texas Posts:2,305 Points:448,060 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: Feb 21, 2012 1:19:51 PM Ignore drawee Report Abuse Thanks....I am new and just found that site...I will do that in the future. :-)
BUSSY Champion Author Dallas Posts:9,907 Points:1,541,490 Joined:Oct 2006	Message Posted: Feb 21, 2012 1:12:29 PM Ignore BUSSY Report Abuse Very interesting but it should be in the Off Topic forum.