What they thought back in 1955!

[crazyhorse]

Comments made in the year 1955!
That's only 54 years ago!


'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.'

[rainman]

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." - Dr Albert Bartlett.

[Gareth51]

I can remember my first packet of Rothmans costing a couple of bob

[crazyhorse]

I'm sure I can remember milk only costing about 5 cents a bottle - or was it ten..... something like that LOL

[scumdog]

My Ford F100 pick-up truck was brand new back then - probably cost about 1,800 quid

[Motu]

In 1955 our family hardly needed to shop - there were huge vege gardens,chooks,fruit trees,a family fishing boat (commercial).These days you put a cabbage on the check out counter and the girl asks ''what is that?''

[Gareth51]

My Ford F100 pick-up truck was brand new back then - probably cost about 1,800 quid

That would equal 36000 bob

[DougB]

In 1955 I had owned a bike for two years it was an AJS 500 single one of the first bikes with rear springing.
I was serving a fitting and turning apprenticship at the Devonport Naval dockyard. My weekly pay (apprentic's wages)
was around $8 and my board and lodgings cost me $5. Petrol was about 20c a gallon which was
quite expensive when measured against my pay. The 'Milkbar cowboy' on his bike was king!

I thought city life then was amazing as for the first thirteen years of my life in the country (Kaikohe)
we had no electric power and our battery driven radio was the wonder of the age.
I have truly lived through the greatest advances in mankinds history, back then many people still
relied on horses for transport in the country areas, I had several horses and used to ride one to school
until I got a push bike. Motor cycle races were held using old triumphs
and Douglas machines. I learnt to ride on a pre war Harley Davidson with foot clutch
and hand gear change. You could drink the water in most streams.

I enjoy life now with our wonderful tecnology but often hanker for a simpler way of life

[nadroj]

That would equal 36000 bob

I had to double check that! It's been a long time.

[slofox]

I remember bread costing fourpence ha'penny a loaf back then...(just under 4 cents for all you young buggers...)

[avgas]

hmmmmm my dad was born then from recall. And the New Zealand Power Board were probably installing their first CDG overcurrent protection relays.
Dads 3TA would have been 2 years old!

[peasea]

My Ford F100 pick-up truck was brand new back then - probably cost about 1,800 quid

Were you the first owner?

[peasea]

In 1955 I had owned a bike for two years it was an AJS 500 single one of the first bikes with rear springing.
I was serving a fitting and turning apprenticship at the Devonport Naval dockyard. My weekly pay (apprentic's wages)
was around $8 and my board and lodgings cost me $5. Petrol was about 20c a gallon which was
quite expensive when measured against my pay. The 'Milkbar cowboy' on his bike was king!

I thought city life then was amazing as for the first thirteen years of my life in the country (Kaikohe)
we had no electric power and our battery driven radio was the wonder of the age.
I have truly lived through the greatest advances in mankinds history, back then many people still
relied on horses for transport in the country areas, I had several horses and used to ride one to school
until I got a push bike. Motor cycle races were held using old triumphs
and Douglas machines. I learnt to ride on a pre war Harley Davidson with foot clutch
and hand gear change. You could drink the water in most streams.

I enjoy life now with our wonderful tecnology but often hanker for a simpler way of life

Milk Bar Cowboys eh? I can recall them in the sixties in Wellington, man were they cool or what? It sounds like you're even older than me, jeez.

[Gareth51]

I remember bread costing fourpence ha'penny a loaf back then...(just under 4 cents for all you young buggers...)

And BIG ice cream for threepence

[crazyhorse]

................. and that kind of money I certainly don't remember