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Title: remember 1957? Post by BobG on Apr 21st, 2005, 1:04am I know some of you are not old enough to remember, but, Remember this? 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 $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," (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." (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 t he 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) "I guess taking a vacation is out of the question now days. 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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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by TxBasslady on Apr 21st, 2005, 2:04am As much as I hate to say it......yes, I remember 1957! I was 10 years old. In 1963, I drove a '57 Chevy to school. Those '57 Chevy's were the rage in Texas. Gas was cheap! A good gas war and you could buy gas for 13 cents a gallon. Man, those were the good ole days! Princess Drive-In.....the best hamburgers in town! Wow....thanks for bringing back some good memories! Jean |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by BobG on Apr 21st, 2005, 2:13am Hey Jean, I was also 10 in '57. In high school I drove a '47 Ford. I put a '62 Chevy V8 in it and broke the transmission the first time I punched it. P.S. Please don't tell Linda H it had a Chevy motor. |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by TxBasslady on Apr 21st, 2005, 2:19am I didn't know you could put a Chevy engine in a Ford...LMAO!! [smiley=huh.gif] 's no wonder you blew it!! Honestly.....those were the best years of my life. If only I had known then....what I know now.... J |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by jokrs2 on Apr 21st, 2005, 2:22am Ah yes. I remember it well. It was snowing like hell in Seattle on January 30th 1957 as my dad always reminds me, when the doctor slapped me on the ass. ;;D |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Charlie on Apr 21st, 2005, 4:41am I was 11 and we had a 1953 Packard that we could fill up for 23 cents a gallon. Quote:
Actually, the tax rates on the rich were more than 75%, probably more. Nice though. I love to read stuff that took place when I was still wearing my Davey Crockett t-shirt. Charlie |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by don on Apr 21st, 2005, 6:06am "Hide your daughters, don's here" |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by BarbaraD on Apr 21st, 2005, 8:16am Thanks for the memories -- and I was a little more than 10. That was a special year for all us - kids! We could also leave the doors unlocked -- no one knew where the key was anyhow. Kids could "walk" to town without fear of being "taken" - everyone in town watched out for everyone's kids. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were still at the movies. Buck Rogers was "fiction" (imagine going off into space -- and those "machines" (computers) he had on that ship of his....... Duck tails and poodle skirts And that singer who shook his pelvis - Elvis! And that 57 Chevy..... $1.00 of gas would run us all night -- about 6 of us could come up with a dollar on Friday night - most of the time. Geezzz - our kids and grandkids are missing so much...... Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Kevin_M on Apr 21st, 2005, 8:36am I was picked up for carrying a loaded diaper. Probably also rolling around the back seat of a new blue and white two-toned '57 Ford Fairlane. Looked forward to inheriting the cool hand-me-down tricycle, someday climbing through the milk shute, trying not to fall down on the new concrete driveway, wishing the wooden high chair wasn't sticky, and hoping to NEVER lose my blue blankie. Kevin M |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by pattik on Apr 21st, 2005, 9:27am Well, hell's bells, Bob, :) I too was young in the 50's but much of this list is memorable. In 1957, I fondly remember being given goiter pills once a week during milk break in grade school (before iodized salt). Even in the 60's, my first new car (a '69 Pontiac LeMans convertable) was just under $4000-the same amout that my four years of college cost!) :o Yes, inflation is as certain as death and taxes :'( Pat edited to add: let's not forget those fun duck-and-cover drills in grade school! |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by vig on Apr 21st, 2005, 9:31am I didn't appear until the end of the Eisenhower administration... sorry ;;D |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by nani on Apr 21st, 2005, 9:50am I don't remember it, I was only an infant. I do remember gas at $.39 a gallon in 1972 at the first pump it yourself station in town. I remember saying "When cigarettes hit $1.00 a pack I'm quitting." I also remember my first fulltime job in 1975...I got paid minimum wage...$2.41 an hour. |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by pattik on Apr 21st, 2005, 10:04am on 04/21/05 at 08:36:24, Kevin_M wrote:
when back seats really had some character ;;D |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Margi on Apr 21st, 2005, 10:06am a few years before I landed on earth, Bob, but I do remember getting my first apartment in the late 70's at age 17. I was grossing $600 a month from my job and my rent was $300 for a really big 2 bedroom apartment. I paid $50 a month to board my horse, my car payment was $75 a month (to my grandmother), $20 gas would keep that old Envoy Epic ::) going for about a week and a half and I lived on mac/cheese and weiner water soup (sorry, Broomie - there's your favourite word :P). I had WAY more spending money in those days than now! I even saved up enough money to buy a used Gremlin!! :o Now THAT was a cool car. LOL |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by nani on Apr 21st, 2005, 10:07am Kevin was rolling around with his blue blankie in '57. He borrowed the Fairlane in '70 to roll around with someone else.... ;) |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by taraann on Apr 21st, 2005, 10:58am I don't .............in 1957 my mom was only a year old. ;;D |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Linda_Howell on Apr 21st, 2005, 11:42am Quote:
I heard that. Linda |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by thomas on Apr 21st, 2005, 11:45am on 04/21/05 at 10:58:34, taraann wrote:
Ditto ;;D |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Gena on Apr 21st, 2005, 11:55am ;;D My mom was 7 in 1957 Edited to include my Dad he was 15 so he might remember :o |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Charlie on Apr 21st, 2005, 1:16pm My father took home nearly $10,000 in 1957. Have you any idea how much that was back then? He paid off everything but he wouldn't buy a new car for mom. (he had epilepsy too) We got our 57 Olds in 1959. Russians beat us to space The embarrasing Suez crisis was over. Anthony Eden resigned as Prime Minister. The Mayor's kid stole our big Hein-Warner jack. Cops were nervous about telling him. Dad sold our camp. :'( Mom hated it. We still had a milkman and "cream top" bottles. The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game. McDonalds burgers were about 20 cents. You could still buy a Studebaker, Packard, and the Edsel was new. Charlie was 11 and "I Love Lucy" Ended. Charlie still loved 1957. http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/happy tater.gif |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Marta on Apr 21st, 2005, 4:15pm No. Marta |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by ClusterChuck on Apr 21st, 2005, 6:56pm on 04/21/05 at 13:16:31, Charlie wrote:
I remember most of what has been mentioned, above. I remember, when my youngest sister was born, in '56, the milk man started to deliver some extra milk bottles, without the cream on top. I don't remember them caling it skim milk, though, just "milk without the cream on top" ... Then they finally went to that new fangled stuff, "homogenized" ... Didn't have the cream on top anymore! I also remember Ike's re-election campaign. I had an "I Like Ike" button. Ah the good ole days ... Days BEFORE the beast!!!! Chuck |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by BlueMeanie on Apr 21st, 2005, 7:10pm I was circumcised in 57'. It was a hell of a day. [smiley=laugh.gif] |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Jonny on Apr 21st, 2005, 7:12pm You folks are OLD ;;D |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by BobG on Apr 21st, 2005, 7:30pm Quote:
My father smoked Camels. 21 cents a pack. The pack had 4 pennies under the cellophane as change for a quarter. My brother and I would fight over who got the 4 cents for candy. Quote:
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My father’s generation referred to them as “those dammned greasy DA’s” Guess you know what the A was for. Quote:
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Pinkfloyd on Apr 22nd, 2005, 12:32am Looks like all I got were hand-me-downs...as usual. Patti's 69 Lemans convertible (wish I still had it) I found a couple of tickets from the Jefferson 18 Drive-In movies under the back seat....How'd they get there Patti? :-X and Chuck's I Like Ike button. I still have that and wore it to vote in the last election. and, while BobG was watching test blasts, I was being taught how to hide under my desk at school, with my hands over my head for protection....from radioactive "tornados" :-/ Bobw |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Ellick on Apr 22nd, 2005, 1:46pm Can't compete with all of you but can say I was 6 yrs old in rural England in a village of 500 people. My family had a Morris 10 and my father worked for Singer sewing machines. I remember us driving to the Lake District (which took 10 hours) so we children could spend all summer with our Auntie Maggie (long dead, Bless her beautiful heart). She loved us and I remember that warm grown up love so well. We had all summer by Lake Windermere. Men wore trilbys and trousers with turn ups and the war was not talked about much, even though there was still big holes in the ground and live ammunition all over the place. Teddy Boys were just coming in to fashion. I hated rock and roll then. ET |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Charlie on Apr 22nd, 2005, 4:23pm Quote:
I was only 10 during the Democratic convention in 1956 but I'll never forget Adlai Stevenson saying "No more golfing and goofing" referring to Ike's propensity for golf. I had a coonskin cap too and got a plastic Davey Crockett flintlock cap pistol for my Birthday. Broke it of course. We had A-bomb drills too. I always felt safe hiding under under my desk which was in effect kindling. Big yellow sirens were on selected telephone poles here. Now that was nuclear terror when they went off every two weeks for testing. Some years ago a friend who came back from London remarked that you could always tell where a bomb was dropped in residential area because of the new house in the row. Charlie |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by TonyG1 on Apr 23rd, 2005, 2:12pm on 04/21/05 at 10:58:34, taraann wrote:
Me either... I wasn't on the planet until 8 years later ... |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by jimbo on Apr 23rd, 2005, 2:18pm Me neither, I was negative 6 ;;D Seeya, 42 yesterday jimbo |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by TxBasslady on Apr 24th, 2005, 1:11pm ......bobbie socks..pennie loafers..drive inn theatres.. ..dual exhaust, and down shifting while going under a bridge so the pipes would howl! Did I mention boys [smiley=huh.gif] OMG...I still remember my first boyfriend...His name was Johnny. He drove a 59 Mercury....and he was the hottest thing going! For sure the 50's & 60's were the greatest. We had respect for our parents....we had chores to do before any privileges were granted. We had family values. We were taught to listen...and to never interrupt an adult. We knew that when Daddy said "no", it was not to be questioned. We learned that love brings respect..and that our lives would be full if we carried on the traditions of our teachings. We learned that we could "stumble"....but "falling" was unacceptable. Things were pretty strict at our house. I will always be thankful for the great childhood provided me. Today, they are only memories.... Jean |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by Ree on Apr 25th, 2005, 1:22pm finally a post that makes me feel young......I wasn't here yet ~NAH NAH-NAHNAHNAH~ REE |
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Title: Re: remember 1957? Post by LadyLuv on Apr 25th, 2005, 2:30pm Okay... I turned 10 in Dec. of '57 and in 62 I was driving a 51 Mercury 4 in the floor... Which I traded for a 57Chevy, Matalic Blue in 64... Yep those were the days... 1964 - Cigarettes were $2.90 a carton @ Chanute Airforce Base in Rantoul.. and when they went to $3.10 a carton I swore that I would quit if the went up any higher... I must have thought I meant a pack ... since I just quit 3 months ago at more than $3.00 per pack... Lady Luv ::) |
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