A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall I Remember 1955

Comments Made in the Year 1955!!

'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 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 of 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 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 the city anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'

'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 hair cut, forget it.'

hehe good one

i'm thinking we need to make a list now for our kids/grandkids

I got 19. yep I'm older then dirt. LOL
DON'T CHEAT.
History Exam...

Everyone over 50 should have a pretty easy time at this exam.
If you are under 50 you can claim a handicap.

This is a History Exam for those who don't mind seeing how much they really remember about what went on in their life.
Get paper and pencil and number from 1 to 20.
NUMBER 1-20, Write the letter of each answer and score at the end.

Then, best of all, before you pass this test on, put your score in the subject line, send to friends AND HAVE FUN!!!!

1. In the 1940's, where were automobile headlight dimmer switches located?
a. On the floor shift knob
b. On the floor board, to the left of the clutch
c. Next to the horn

2. The bottle top of a Royal Crown Cola bottle had holes in it. For what was it used?
a. Capture lightning bugs
b. To sprinkle clothes before ironing
c. Large salt shaker

3. Why was having milk delivered a problem in northern winters?
a. Cows got cold and wouldn't produce milk
b. Ice on highways forced delivery by dog sled
c. Milkmen left deliveries outside of front doors and milk would freeze, expanding and pushing up the cardboard bottle top.

4. What was the popular chewing gum named for a game of chance?
a. Blackjack
b. Gin
c. Craps!

5. What method did women use to look as if they were wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing during W.W.II
a. Suntan
b. Leg painting
c. Wearing slacks

6. What postwar car turned automotive design on its ear when you couldn't tell whether it was coming or going?
a. Studebaker
b. Nash Metro
c. Tucker

7. Which was a popular candy when you were a kid?
a. Strips of dried peanut butter
b. Chocolate licorice bars
c. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside

8. How was Butch wax used?
a. To stiffen a flat-top haircut so it stood up
b. To make floors shiny and prevent scuffing
c. On the wheels of roller skates t o prevent rust

9. Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
a With clamps, tightened by a skate key
b. Woven straps that crossed the foot
c. Long pieces of twine

10. As a kid, what was considered the best way to reach a decision?
a. Consider all the facts
b. Ask Mom
c. Eeny-meeny-miney-mo

11. What was the mos t ! dreaded disease in the 1940's-5 0's
a. Smallpox
b. AIDS
c. Polio

12. "I'll be down to get you in a ________, Honey"
a. SUV
b. Taxi
c. Streetcar

13. What was the name of Caroline Kennedy's pet pony?
a. Old Blue
b. Paint
c. Macaroni

14. What was a Duck-and-Cover Drill?
a. Part of the game of hide and seek
b What you did when your Mom called you in to do chores
c. Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. What was the name of the Indian Princess on the Howdy Doody show?
a. Princess Summerfallwinterspring
b. Princess Sacajawea
c. Princess Moonshadow

16. What did all the really savvy students do when mimeographed tests were handed out in school?
a. Immediately sniffed the purple in k, as this was believed to get you high
b. Made pape r airplanes to see who could sail theirs out the window
c. Wrote another pupil' s name on the top, to avoid their failure

17. Why di d your Mom shop in stores that gave Green Stamps with purchases?
a. To keep you out of mischief by licking the backs, which tasted like bubble gum
b. They could be put in special books and redeemed for various household items
c. They were given to the kids to be used as stick-on tattoos

18. Praise the Lord, and pass the _________?
a Meatballs
b. Dames
c. Ammunition

19. What was the name of the singing group that made the song "Cabdriver" a hit?
a. The Ink Spots
b. The Supremes
c. The Esquires

20. Who left his heart in San Francisco?
a. Tony Bennett
b. Frank Sinatra
c. George Gershwin
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ANSWERS

1. b) On the floor, to the left of the clutch. Hand controls, popular in Europe, took till the late '60's to catch on.

2. b) To sprinkle clothes before iron ing. Who had a steam iron?

3. c) Cold weather caused the milk to freeze and expand, popping the bottle top.

4. a) Blackjack Gum.

5. b) Special makeup was applied, fol lowed by drawing a seam down the back of the leg with eyebrow pencil.

6. a) 1946 Studebaker.

7. c) Wax coke bottles containing super-sweet colored water.

8 a) Wax for your flat top (butch) haircut.

9. a) With clamps , tightened by a skate key, which you wore on a shoestring around your neck.

10. c) Eeny-meeny-miney-mo.

11. c) Polio. In beginning of August, swimming pools were closed, movies and other public gathering places were closed to try to prevent spread of the disease.

12. b) Taxi. Better be ready by half-past eight!

13. c) Macaroni.

14. c) Hiding under your desk, and covering your head with your arms in an A-bomb drill.

15. a) Princess Summerfallwinterspring. She was another puppet.

16. a) Immediatel y sniffed the purple ink to get a high.

17. b) Put in a special stamp book, they could be traded for
household items at the Green Stamp store.

18. c) Ammunition, and we'll all be free.

19. a) The widely famous 50's group: The Inkspots.

20. a) Tony Bennett, and he sounds just as good today..

SCORING

17- 20 correct: You are older than dirt, and obviously gifted with mental abilities. Now if you could only find your glasses. Definitely someone who should share your wisdom!

12 -16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but you're getting th ere.

0 -11 correct: You are not old enough to share the wisdom of your experiences.
Tell us your score!

I had no idea of a 'high'. I sniffed because it smelled good.

that's what they all say Tina.

Are you really Bill Clinton?

i got 19 right, but i guessed on 2. i suppose i'm almost older than dirt?

but what i remember most about memeographed sheets was all the purple ink on my hands

I missed the Studebaker one. I forgot it was both sides of my mom's friend's car that made me nervous because of the pointy thing on the front (and back).

I am officially older than dirt- got 20 ..... whats scarrier is I remember the sprinklet bottles.... the studabakers and the gum/candy ........
Nana

I also remember all of them. I have the corky/metal thing to fit into a bottle for sprinkling. A new unused one with a faded price tag on it. From the days before they put everything into plastic bags to sell.
I have my mom's old gigantic pressure canner/cooker with the book. It says I can order a new rubber gasket for it from Sears for 10 cents. I'm gonna try that.

Good luck with ordering from Sears for 10 cents... shipping will be 10 dollars... LOL!
When I got my Mom's sewing machine and supplies I found stuff she had when we lived in Juneau ... I was fourteen when we left there- buttons on the cards still- needles and all kind of odds and ends, all with labels and tags from store there.
Nana

Yes, I also got my mom's sewing machine. And all of the fun stuff that came along with it. I recognized some of the saved buttons from coats and things. It is fun to look and remember.

I got 7 right,,,,, The rest were before my time,, or I was just 0 to 2 yrs old and wouldn't have remembered anyway,,

Black jack gum - Still sell it
wax coke bottles - still sell it
clamps on skates,, Fought with brother over them
duck and cover remember that from Kindergarten( Vietnam war,, Looking back now,,- Can't figure out why they still had us doing that,, Scared the mess outta me when I saw my first Goodyear Blimp,, I thought it was a bomb,,, and hid under my bed for hours )

eeny meeny mynee mo,,,,,,,,,, Still do that

yep that is the only one I missed as well----and we know I am older than dirt---(or almost)

[quote=angelblossom]
duck and cover remember that from Kindergarten( Vietnam war,, Looking back now,,- Can't figure out why they still had us doing that,, Scared the mess outta me when I saw my first Goodyear Blimp,, I thought it was a bomb,,, and hid under my bed for hours ) [/quote

Yeah, I got sent to the Principles office in the third grade with my "smart mouth" over that one.
I had seen the movie "On The Beach" about the end of the world after the set off a bunch of nukes and Australia was the last place before the whole world was eradicated. Anyway when they started doing that again my 3ed grade year I refused to do it. I told my teacher that there was no way that getting under our desk was going to be able to save anyone of us if a big one went off any where near us.


And hey, I maybe older than dirt but since I am not suppose to be alive or at least no more than a vegetable then I praise every old year granted to me. Yep I am old, I am finally getting some gray hairs and I am proud of everyone. I just want my blame Senior discounts NOW!!!
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This question is off topic, but Memosa care to elaborate on the above statement???

OH my goodness----I am so sad that that happened, memosa but so glad that you recoverd over all odds. I can understand your being so adament on head traumas and their immediate care---

also thank you so much for sharing, I hope I did not overstep in asking....

Minimum wage was $1.00 an hour in 55 how come I only got 85 cents an hour someone owes me some money with interest and yes I am older then dirt sometimes I think I invented it.

You should have patented it, Jimmy. You'd be one rich guy now.