Do you remember 1955?

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

1955 CHEVROLET and The Conversations That Went With It!

Comments made in the year

1955! Only 55 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 $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 29cents 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 $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.'

'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 congress.'

'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather,

But I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.'

'There is no sense going to Lincoln City

or Seaside anymore for a weekend,

It costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a motel.'

'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 gallon of gas, forget it.'

[Stan]

too funny....

[LifeHiscost]

1955 CHEVROLET and The Conversations That Went With It!

Comments made in the year

1955! Only 55 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 $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 29cents 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 $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.'

'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 congress.'

'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather,

But I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.'

'There is no sense going to Lincoln City

or Seaside anymore for a weekend,

It costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a motel.'

'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 gallon of gas, forget it.'

Been there, done that.

God blesses!!

[Overaged]

That's pretty cool Pam!

We must all remember the very solemn fact that 1955 is the year I was born!

[LynnDel]

That's pretty cool Pam!

We must all remember the very solemn fact that 1955 is the year I was born!

Really! I take note of the fact that someone born in 1955 has a name like "Overaged," and I call that wrong, completely wrong.

[Overaged]

LOL, maybe so, maybe so.

But regarding the 55 Belair - the closest I ever got to one was the 62 Belair, 2 speed, automatic transmission, that I owned a few years ago. It had a big fight with a big truck and lost.

[Guest]

Well I didn't come along until 1959, but I heard statements very similar to those. Also, I said that if cigarettes ever got to be $1.00 a pack that I would quit smoking. And I did.

[Amelia]

Pam, you just park that cherry car under my christmas tree, k?

[GreatLakesGramma]

Originally Posted By: Overaged

That's pretty cool Pam!

We must all remember the very solemn fact that 1955 is the year I was born!

Really! I take note of the fact that someone born in 1955 has a name like "Overaged," and I call that wrong, completely wrong.

I agree. I was also born in 1955, and I am not old.

[Overaged]

I apologize if I am taking away from Pam's OP here; but just to clarify "Overaged," to dispell all doubtful disputations. "Overaged" was a username I chose some time ago for a number of things internet. It was never intended to refer to "old," too old," etc. When my sons became the "magical" age of 16, there was talk of them not being "underaged" anymore, and that they could have more freedoms, based upon that, so somehow during that conversation, I came up with the phrase "Overaged," meaning only that there are only two groups of people: "underaged," and "overaged."

[Bravus]

My dad was 17 in 1955

[GreatLakesGramma]

I apologize if I am taking away from Pam's OP here; but just to clarify "Overaged," to dispell all doubtful disputations.

Not really a problem, overaged. We were just having a little fun with your name.

[Kountzer]

My birthday is Thursday Dec 16, 1955. I will then be 55.

[GreatLakesGramma]

Ah, Kountzer, my birthday is in January, so I will soon no longer be 55.

[Overaged]

LOL; I knew that. But I also knew that people "our age" look at that name and see it as an old thing. It's a young thing - like us...