"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."
"Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2000 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, 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" 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."
"Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."
"I'm just 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 or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel."
"No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."
"If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it."
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A decade later, I bought .17 gas during a price war, I seem to recall--.23 plenty of times. 10 bucks was enough to get some gas, take a date to the "movies," grab burgers and get someone to buy you a six-pack...
In 57, my sister was listening to Pat Boone on the radio, and Chevy introduced the hottest-looking car ever...fins!
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quote:Originally posted by BuyTex: A decade later, I bought .17 gas during a price war, I seem to recall--.23 plenty of times. 10 bucks was enough to get some gas, take a date to the "movies," grab burgers and get someone to buy you a six-pack...
In 57, my sister was listening to Pat Boone on the radio, and Chevy introduced the hottest-looking car ever...fins!
I have pictures of me standing besides my dad's new 1957 Chevy with the fins
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I don't know Dustoff, 57 Nash, I remember the song. That might be as bad as my first car a 51 stude with a V-8. The mid 50's to the early 70's were great years for cars. I had some monsters, and lived in Calif close to Pasadena and Colorado Blv.
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Yep, they thought Nash Rambler was the way to go..My Father is half Irish, he has some facial scars he won't comment on..I know he was mixed up in the Union Movement in the 30'S during the depression, while struggling thru school....
I know one thing, he does not like Ford and GM.
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Days in the Sun, in California, during the muscle car era, was something I will never forget..The 426 Hemi, the 440's, 454's, small block Mopars, Vettes, 427 GT'S, man, Californias finest hour!
Can't leave out the Olds 442, one of my favorite cars.
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If I had one of my muscle cars now and drove it the way I did then, I would have to hold 2 jobs just to pay for the gas and be in jail.
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Speaking of the 50's and 60's, did you see where Clarke Foam shut down their business last week.They have been the suppliers of foam for a lot of surfboard makers for so many years. No one saw it coming and now manufactures of surfboards are trying to find another source for foam, the prices of surfboards are going to skyrocket for awhile. I think they got tired of fighting the EPA in Ca.
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Nope, but I'm leaving for Hawaii soon will check the prob out..Last call from my daughter said she heard about a revolution coming in board making..
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Had a girl friend with a Plymouth GTX 426 Hemi...Rich Daddy... We had a great time in that Car, the desert runs to go skiing in Colorado, Nevada, and Utah were awsome..
My car was a 66 4dr slant 225, 6, 3 speed colume shift,plymouth Station wagon full of Surfing stuff...Led Zepplin and the Doors with a little Hendrix mixed in...8 track!
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I forgot about 8 track. Someone in our condo complex has a Dodge 426 Hemi, he takes out of storage every so often, it is built to hill, he drives it through and it sets off the car alarms. The cars I loved were the surf wagons, Pontiac Surfari, 55- 56 and 57 Chevy Nomad and the Chevy Panal. The manufactures try to manufacture cars like the old muscle cars, but never the same, although they do handle better.
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It's a shame so many will never expieriance the sheer power and sound of those cars late at night in calm conditions Top down at speed and power up in an isolated Desert Canyon!!
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I came across this phrase in a book yesterday "FENDER SKIRTS". A term I haven't heard in a long time and thinking about "fender skirts" started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice.
Like "curb feelers" and "steering knobs." Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. Any kids will probably have to find some elderly person over 50 to explain some of these terms to you
Remember "Continental kits?" They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental.
When did we quit calling them "emergency brakes?" At some point "parking brake" became the proper term. But I miss the hint of drama that went with "emergency brake."
I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the "foot feed"
Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you could ride the "running board" up to the house?
Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore - "store-bought." Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy.
"Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term "world wide" for granted. This floors me.
On a smaller scale, "wall-to-wall" was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. Go figure.
When's the last time you heard the quaint phrase "in a family way?" It's hard to imagine that the word "pregnant" was once considered a little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company. So we had all that talk about stork visits and "being in a family way" or simply"expecting."
Today the common announcement is “WE’re pregnant!”
Apparently "brassiere" is a word no longer in usage. I said it the other day and my grand daughter cracked up. I guess it's just "bra" now "Unmentionables" probably wouldn't be understood at all.
I always loved going to the "picture show," but I considered "movie" an affectation.
Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure-'60s word I came across the other day - "rat fink." Ooh, what a nasty put-down!
Here's a word I miss - "percolator." That was just a fun word to say. And what was it replaced with? "Coffee maker." How dull. Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this.
I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like "DynaFlow" and "Electrolux." Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!"
Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody complains of that anymore. Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because I never hear mothers threatening kids with castor oil anymore.
Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts.
-------------------- Lil,
Dont LOSE more than you can afford to invest....LOL
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Some have said a big car is a substitute for smaller genitals.
quote:Originally posted by Dustoff101: It's a shame so many will never expieriance the sheer power and sound of those cars late at night in calm conditions Top down at speed and power up in an isolated Desert Canyon!!
quote:Originally posted by Aylobaha Gafuleya: Some have said a big car is a substitute for smaller genitals.
quote:Originally posted by Dustoff101: It's a shame so many will never expieriance the sheer power and sound of those cars late at night in calm conditions Top down at speed and power up in an isolated Desert Canyon!!
Some say women... like you.. who have fifty or more cats are compensating for a total lack of human contact.
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I heard that it is people like you, who continually feel the need to stroke their own ego in chat rooms, who are compensating for the complete rejection they have received from the non-virtual community.
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Hey Riesco, Old Buttercup sure has a thing for mens genitals...Maybe he doesn't have any of his own, since the operation failed.LOL
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