Comments Made In The Year 1957


          "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
          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."