What do you make of these comments made in 1955?

I think those comments are living proof that America needs to pull out of being a part of this NEW WORLD ORDER! We have (had) a good way of life & as soon as we started playing footsie with other countries & fell for the hype of being open-minded & compassionate to the needs of foreigners & the pleas of their leaders....we cut off our nose to spite our face & now we are handing our country over to other world leaders piece by piece & we need to CUT & RUN as soon as we sell the last American Corporation & start all over again with a BOYCOTT of the foreign owned goods we just got rid of. That's what this AMERICAN THINKS! I don't WANT to be a part of the same country that sold out my ancestors & forced them to become American. NO WAY AM I GOING BACK TO A MONARCHY.

That's What I make of those 1955 comments. America never needs to pay what Europe does for Fuel. We can still overcome this world wide hype & save what we have for ourselves. Let the silly rich fund the good deed clubs of those nations that are not caring for their own citizens. We never needed to ask anyone for anything & we still don't, so why are we still playing footsie with the enemies who abandoned their countrymen to begin with?

Edit: We once held this saying in high esteem..."GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH"...it still is in our hearts, yet we dare not say it aloud for fear of being labeled as "heartless to the needs of other nations"...I say back to the basics of common sense over what others think of our way of life. It's OUR way of life & no one is going to CHANGE it.

Suzie s, I can identify with every word that is written there.

I'm a 50's girl. I graduated in 53, married in 57 and had my first baby in 58 and my second baby in 59. They are 14 months apart.

The hospital bill including the doctor bill was $130.00 and it took scrimping and saving to get the bills paid off in two years.

All through the 50's I worked as a waitress and my best wages were 94 cents an hour.

When we married, my husband was making $1.51 an hour working in a gas station and gas was 21 cents a gallon.

That writing is what it is and WOW, it brings back those days, just like it was yesterday.

I also remember, when Miracle Whip was 45 cents a quart in the late 60's.

I remember people saying the day would come when things will cost so much, "We will have to use a wheel barrow to haul our money to the store to pay for our groceries.

Credit card were non-existent.

Thanks for that bit of information. I hope you won't mind if I share this with my family.

DeeJay.

Well it wasn't much after this that I started an apprenticeship in the technical field of electricity( the word "Hi Tech" didn't ex hist) ,At the fabulous sum of eleven pence and three farthings an hour,or seventeen shillings and sixpence a week,or eighty-seven and a half P a week.

And these were the" good old days",I don't somehow think so!!

wasn't 1955 53 years ago? who thought that one day there would be a thing up on a screen linking everyone and giving false information as fact and bad math skills to boot

$35.00 for a night in the hospital!!!! I wish - but in 53 years a great deal has happened. Once a week I have been having tests at the outpatient clinic at the hospital - and on average these tests are running $5,000 each time I go. But then again in 1953 I think I did not earn very much money!

Hopefully It all balances out - but somehow I doubt it. Thanks for sharing -- - - Starworthy! CJ

It is a shame that we cannot return to yesteryear. I enjoy telling my barber to "Take me back to 1955" when he ask me how I want it cut. I have the daily diary that my Dad kept when we took a vacation trip from Texas to San Francisco in 1946 in our family car. There were two adults and two young kids. His entry one morning on the trip was " I paid four dollars and fifty cents for the motel room last night. If it gets any more expensive we are going to turn around and go back home." I remember hearing him say " I just wanted to sleep overnight in that room. I did not want to buy it. " Would it be so bad if this card house collapsed and we started all over ? Maybe we will, return to yesteryear.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

We in North America really aren't aware how good we still have it despite the increases in prices etc. My friend in South Africa said if you factored in inflation and how well or badly the rand is to the US or Canadian dollar we've got very similar lifestyles, although South Africa like the UK pays more for commodities.

I remember when we said "Some day they say we'll pay a dollar a loaf for bread" .I was horrified. Now you can't get a bad loaf for a dollar.

And they said some day we'd pay a dollar for a gallon of milk. It costs as much or more than a gallon of gas.

I'll take a 50 cent haircut..

When we got married in 1946, our groceries cost us 3.00 a week. When we had our first baby in 1947, she spent 30 days in an incubator to the tune of a rediculous 1 dollar a day. We found it hard to pay. Boy, how times have changed.

How innocent and naive we were. I remember my mother complaining when postage stamps went from .03 to .04 cents each.

My dad was a union carpenter in southern Calif. back then and brought home about $130 a week. That was excellent pay then.