Most of you aren''t old enough to remember this. Same this are being said today,

[napi21]

only the numbers are different!

'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 $10.00.

'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $1,000.00 will only buy a used one.

'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.

'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents 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 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.

'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 $50,000 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.

'I'm 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 government.

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

'There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.

'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.'

'If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

Unfortunately I DO remember people saying all those things. Heck, I rember when we were first married my grocery budget was under $10/wk and I had to cut back on our food budgt after we ad our fist baby because had to buy baby food too, and that was in the early 60's.

[rurallib]

1. What I am sad to hear is racial slurs coming back

Really sad.
The party staffer in our area had some thrown at him the other night while door-knocking.

[jody]

2. I was in my late teens when those things were common knowledge. n/t

[classof56]

3. Well, at risk of giving away my age I do recall when gas was about 20c/gallon

One day my dad pulled into a gas station and told the attendant (pre-self serve days in Colorado) to put in ten dollars' worth. He quickly amended that to ten gallons and he and the attendant got a big laugh contemplating the day it would cost ten bucks to fill a tank. Neither could foresee that ever happening. That was about 1954. I could go on--23 cents for a loaf of bread, nickel for a candy bar, 16 cents for a movie ticket. I also remember my first job paying $110 a month. Ah, those were the days!

I'm sure you've prompted more to come. This is kinda fun. Be interesting to see today's catch phrases being called to mind in the future. If there is any future...

Blessings.

[Lugnut]

32. I remember buying gas for 5 gals/$1.

At that time I was 17 years old.

We bought a new house before we got married in 1966. Our 20 year mortgage monthly payment was $102.65.

My husband's new fully loaded FWD 1979 GMC Sierra Grande cost $7500.00. The monthly payment was $150.00.

When my son was born in 1968 our weekly grocery budget was $25.00 and we ate well.

I worked as a bookeeper for a heating oil company in 1967. Heating oil cost $.15 a gallon.

[classof56]

35. I have a lot of similar memories and...

I have a daughter (first of two) who was born in 1968. Where has the time gone???

:fistbump:

[hootinholler]

36. I was a pump jockey at .35/gal

Check your oil, tire pressure, wash the windshield and back window.

-Hoot

[Lugnut]

37. And you got free glassware or some other premium to boot.

Boy, how times have changed.

[classof56]

38. Ah yes! And I remember the pump jockeys who did that and more...

for instance, vacuumed the floors, smiling and saying, "That's why they call it a service station, ma'am." 'Course, that was to a couple of teenage girls, but I'm guessing it was their MO for young and old.

Thanks for the memory!

[Demit]

4. It was in 1930 that Babe Ruth said, about his salary being more than the President's,

"I know, but I had a better year." If you can remember even before then, you have a great memory! :)

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Gone With the Wind?

Well I certainly agree that most of us are too young to have had kids during the 'Gable said damn' era, seeing as that was about 70 years ago.

[jody]

6. I went to one of the first showings of Gone With The Wind and we all waited for the line "Frankly,

my dear, I don't give a damn"

I remember how positively wicked we youngsters felt at hearing such forbidden language.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. I think you were the one that spilled popcorn me.

I was there, I know that much.

[jody]

14. Popcorn a huge bag for 5 cents, movie was a dime, and Baby Ruth 5 cents. I believe.

:hi: :hug: :toast:

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Yes! And Jujubees, those colorful gummy little candies...

which made a sticky mess in my pockets when mom washed my clothes the next day.......:hi: :loveya:

[lpbk2713]

7. Home computers?? Don't be ridiculous!!11!

:rofl:

[truedelphi]

31. Well for those of us who can devote an entire garage to the

Cabinet and the machinery, home computers might be possible.

Though if it has 40 K of memory, it might take up two whole garages!

(I had friends who moved from San Francisco area to Los Angeles just because new employer had a machine with 60 K of memory!)

[HockeyMom]

8. I'm 62 and don't remember these

but I'm from NYC which was always a lot more expense than the rest of the country, even going back 40 or 50 years ago.

[jody]

22. You youngsters missed all the good old times.

:hi:

[napi21]

26. Yousay that now, but really, think about it, did you REALLY think

it was that great then? I was the OP here & although I was happy most of the time, I also remember thinking "I really don't want to be rich, just be able to buy what I really wanted at the grocery store and not worry about how I could pay for it.

Most of the postrs here that remember those times were depression babies and grew up being very careul with money.

I didn't post the article (which I got in an enail) because I tought it was a GREAT TIME! I posted it to show both the oldsters & the youngsters that nothing ever reall changes. The same arguments continue to exist, just the numbers and technology changes.

[jody]

27. Think, Think! I was too busy living every moment to the fullest and chasing childhood dreams.

What I've learned is to enjoy every moment as though it was my last and for me it was on 2 June 2007 but I recovered after my body was carried away.

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x145278

[zbdent]

9. I remember the intellectual disconnect during the 1990s' "minimum wage hike" ...

When Rush Limbaugh said it would bankrupt small businesses ...

AND ...

that nobody was working for minimum wage ...

go figure that one out ... if nobody was working for minimum wage, then how could raising the minimum wage mean anything to those who weren't working for that rate???

[monmouth]

10. We were the last to have a TV, dad thought it was just a "passing fancy."...LOL...n/t

[napi21]

16. How big was the screen on your first TV? Our first one had a

TEN INCH (diagbally measured) one! Dad bought it used from a friend of his who had an electroncs store, and on Friday nights we used to invite the relatives over to watch wrestling. Amazing that anyone could see anything from across the room on such a little screen.

[monmouth]

33. I believe it was a 12" and my dad also "got a deal" from someone he

knew. Do you remember that colored plastic thingy you put over the screen to make the picture "color???" That was too funny.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Well back in 1983 I paid a buck to go to the movies

and three bucks for... the snacks.

The other day we paid close to forty...

There is no inflation though.

And of course computers are a passing fancy... and I still remember typing papers on a TYPE WRITER... talk about footnotes!

[napi21]

15. In 1977 I was all excited about us getting ONE IBM Selectric

typewriter (the one with the little ball element & a CORRECTION TAPE!) an we all used to fight over who was going to get to use it instead of the standard royal electric ones. And remember CARBON PAPER? How much fun was THAT when you had to correct 3 or 4 copies when you made a typo!!!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. I am considering bringing the manual

portable typewriter next time I go visit... If I can find... ribbon for it...

And yes I do remember carbon paper. Mom still has some ...

[Sal Minella]

29. You can buy any kind of ribbon and just rewind it onto the spools that are

already in the machine -- I've done this many times -- :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. I might just do that

it is a great Olivetti... solid as can be, and for some writing it could be great.

Thanks for the tip.

That said, I downloaded a nice little progie that simulates the typewriter behavior. Problem is... file format. (Going geek), the UTF-8 encoding for text should be fine, but believe it or not word kind of chokes. (And yes I make a lot of mistakes so I do need to ahem... open it in a real word processor to correct for that)

If I find one that does not do that, my nettie will become one until I can carry that thing up here.

[EFerrari]

20. You guys were on the cutting edge. I didn't even see one of those

until the early 80s!

[JHB]

13. Love the "half our income" complaint...

...considering at the time the top maginal rates were 70-90+ percent (depending on exactly when this is from).


Huge, seismic shifts in tax structure later, we still hear the same complaints. And they're still demanding more tax cuts for the rich and businesses.

[EFerrari]

19. Our weekly budget in 1975 was $60.

If I was really careful, my husband bought a quart of beer on Saturday.

[Atman]

21. Why the bloody hell would someone UNrec this post?

At 51, I find it amusing and thought-provoking. But it sure as hell isn't in any way controversial. I rec'd it because I thought it kind of help put a lot of things into perspective, and brought back a few memories. The douchebag(s) that felt there was a need to un-rec it have some serious stupid going on!

.

[JonLP24]

23. lol

I rec'd but it is still '0'.

[jody]

24. 51, 51 !!! The age of my children. ROFL

:hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Some folks must be running a script

I am positive by now.

[Urban Prairie]

28. I remember when Johnny Bench became MLB's first 100 K per year salaried baseball player

Our evening newspaper's sports section had an artist's drawing of his face and arms superimposed on a sphinx.

[unhappycamper]

34. And I remember gas wars in 1962 Iowa when gas was $0.19 per gallon.

We usta fill up and ride around on the weekends for two bucks.