1955

 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.

'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more.  

 Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying darn in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or darn 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 afr aid 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 i s no sense going to Lincoln or   Omaha
 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.'