This is pretty long, but if you think about, pretty funny now. The 50's weren't really that long ago!


AMAZING! Here are some quotes from people in the US during the 1950's.
>>>
>>> (1). "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are,
>>>its' going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20."
>>> (2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't
>>>be long when
>>> $5000 will only buy a used one."
>>> (3). "If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A
quarter
>>>a pack is ridiculous."
>>> (4). "Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a
>>>dime just to mail a letter?"
>>> (5). "The Government is wanting to get its hands on
>>>everything. Pretty soon it's going to be impossible to run a family
>>>business or farm."
>>> (6). "If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able
>>>to hire outside help at the store."
>>> (7). "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas
>>>would someday cost 50 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving
>>>the car in the garage."
>>> (8). "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."
>>> (9). "Also, their music drives me wild. This `Rock Around The
>>>Clock` thing is nothing but racket."
>>>(10). "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 movie has a `hell` or`damn in it."
>>> (11). "Also, it won't be long until couples are sleeping in the same
>>>bed
>>>in the movies. What is this world coming to?"
>>> (12)."Marilyn Monroe is now showing her bra and panties, so apparently
>>>there are no standards anymore."
>>>(13). "Pretty soon you won't be able to buy a good 10 cent cigar."
>>> (14). "I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible
>>>to put a man on the moon by the end of the of the century. They even
have
>>>some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas."
>>> (15). "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."
>>> (16). "Do you suppose television will ever reach our part of the
>>>country?"
>>> (17). "I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would
>>>be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now."
>>>(18). "It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few
>>>married
>>>women are having to work to make ends meet."
>>> (19). "It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire
>>>someone to watch their kids so they can both work."
>>> (20). "Marriage doesn't mean a thing anymore, those Hollywood stars
seem
>>>to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat."
>>>(21). " I'll tell you one thing. If my kid ever talks back to me, he
won't
>>>be able to sit down for a week."
>>> (22). "Did you know the new church in town is allowing women to
>>>wear slacks to their service?"
>>> (23). "Next thing you know is, the government will start paying us not
>>>to grow crops."
>>> (24). "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to
>>>a whole lot of foreign business."
>>> (25). "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."
>>> (26). "Why in the world would you want to send your daughter
>>>to college? Isn't she going to get married? It would be different if
she
>>>could be a doctor or a lawyer."
>>>(27). "I just hate to see the young people smoking. As I tell
>>>my kids, "Don't take a cigarette from ANYONE. You never know what
might
>>>be in it."
>>> (28). The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but
>>>I seriously doubt they will ever catch on."
>>> (29). "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a
>>>weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel."
>>> (30). "no one can afford to be sick anymore, $35 a day in the hospital
>>>is
>>>too rich for my blood."
>>> (31). "If a few idiots want to risk their necks flying across the
>>>country that's fine, but nothing will ever replace trains."
>>>(32). "I don't know about you but if they raise the price of coffee to 15
>>>cents, I'll just have to drink mine at home."
>>>(33). "If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget
>>>it. I'll have my wife learn to cut hair."
>>> (34). "We won't be going out much anymore. Our baby sitter informed us
>>>she wants 50 cents an hour. Kids think money grows on trees."
>>>(35). "Cars which dim their lights by sensors, automatic transmissions,
>>>and who knows what else? Pretty soon they will drive themselves."
>>>
>>>No it wasn't so long ago!!!
>>>
>>> "Forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the
wind
>>>longs to play with your hair..." ...Gibran
>>>
>>>Oh! how I remember this!
>>>
>>>
>>>
The trouble with being a good sport,
is you have to LOSE to prove it!!

Gunny, I go back even further when eggs sold for 10 cents a dozen, butter for about 15 cents a pound, a slab of round steak,[ about 2 pounds ] for a quarter, bones for the dog were free and they had plenty of meat on them, suet was given away free. The trouble with the good old days was that nobody had any money. I was a kid in the middle thirties and got a job in a butcher shop on Saturday working for 25 cents a day washing sweaty weiners. After a couple of Saturdays I went on " strike " for 50 cents for the day. I got it and boy was I happy. I am glad those days are over Semper Fi

I remember during WW2, my grandmom who raised me always gave me the job to take a bag which contained something that look like lard and had a small capsule of red dye. I had to break the red capsule and squeeze the bag until all the red dye was mixed into the lard like matter until it started to look yellow like butter. THIS WAS OLEO WW2 STYLE!!!!
I could just see the kids today eating this yellow stuff.

How about the black out curtains and the air raids. The sirens went off and you had to pulled down the black out curtains, then turn off the lights until the all clear signal was sounded or the local air raid warden would be knocking on your door. I think this was done mostly on the tow coast because of possible Germand and Jpas warship using the lights to aim their weapons.

We come a long way since WW2.

bomber

Right near the end of WW11 ,People
were starting to earn a little more
and most things were hard find or in short supply and then there was those
Ration books,you could buy just enough
to get you by for a week or so at a
time and hardly ever heard anyone
complain everyone did their part to support our Boys over seas,and that was
the important thing.

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How about those little "Red" ration tokens that were issue during WW2. I remember as a little kid during WW2 looking in the gutters and along the sidewalks for those Red tokens. I still have some I save as a kid.
Also how many of you remember your folks saving old cooking grease in 3 lb lard car and then taking it to the food store and selling for about a dime a can to help the war efforts. side note: they must have use the old grease in some of the C-rats I ate during my tours.
Also again, how about taking pencil, pens notebooks into school to fill Red Cross boxes for the troops.
I guess us kids helped out in WW2 in our own way.

Bomber

The original post "Old Times" plus the responses have stirred some memories of my
own. In the late '40s I was a milkman's helper at the extraordinary pay of about a buck or
so a
day.But--all the chocolate milk I could drink! It soon became apparent to me that I was
doing most of the work--hauling milk up flights of stairs to 3d and 4th floor
tenements in Cranston, RI; and the empty bottles back down to the truck--yes, milk really
did come in bottles in those days, and delivered to your door. I also did the same scene
with bread! It wasn't long before I got a real job with the city, and an older employee had
gone out on extended sick leave, and I took his place on the garbage truck--at a
whopping $1.15 per hour! Best of all, we could usually get to the dump with our load in
about 5-6 hours and got paid for an 8 hour day, but we had to loiter about the dump
area until the 8 hours were up--there were fringe benefits here, too. The dump was
adjacent to
the bad girls school/nuthouse and the young ladies were usually out and about during
the hours we
were around. Only a chainlink fence separated us--it proved to be an obstacle but no
permanent barrier. This was much better than the free chocolate milk!



But, in a few months, the regular employee came back to work, and I was outta there.

Dick,
Coming from a dirt poor family, I remember the milkman and his stand up and drive trucks. When he used to park to make a delivery of milk, my buddies and I use to sneak into his truck and steal a few bottles of milk and if we we luckey we got some cottage cheese. When we got home our folks use to paddles our behinds and tell us never to do that again, however everyone drank the milk and ate the cheese.

Remember the ice truck for the "iceboxes", In Baltimore where I grew up, you put a cardboard sign in the window telling the iceman if you wanted a 25 cent or 50 cent block of ice and your ice was brought in and place in the top of the icebox by the iceman. By the way I saw one of these signs at a flea market and the goning price was $20.00 for the sign.

Bomber

Thems the Dudes My Mothers brothersComing back from the War blamed theirKids on.Wofford1448790

I had forgotten about those little red ration tokens, and the Oleo as well.
Just remembered the "Scrap Dives."
They had scrap drives where they would round up different types of materials for war use (during WWII). One time it would be metal, and all the kids in the neighborhood would collect everything from old screwdrivers and pairs of scissors to old metal baby carriage wheels and metal wheelbarraows.

Then there would be a Rubber Drive, and we would collect old inner tubes, tires, etc. Usually, all this stuff was turned in at a local gas station where they had one corner of their lot sectioned off with a makeshift wire fence to hold all the junk until the trucks showed up to haul it all off.

Even tho I was 25 days shy of 6 years old when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, I remember the scrap drives, savings bond drives, V-mail, oleo margarine with the red dot, gas, meat and butter rationing. But, in '54 and '55, to do my part as a good Marine, I was eating C-rats packed by The Rival Dog Food Company, Chicago, Ill. in '41 and '42. (Now I know why they had OD colored cans with black lettering.) I often wondered where those C-rats spent that 15 or so years. (Remember the cigarettes in the C-rats? They were so dry, you'd light one, take one puff and burn your lips!)

Maybe the reason that some people are like they are today is that they never experienced stuff like that.

Semper Fi,

Ski

That Sunday, I still remember....
We lived on 2d floor, I was 6 years old.
I remember my Mom &Dad opening the window to see what was going on in the street below. People were out, and it was a BIG thing, everybody hurrying about, turning on radios, talking and asking questions of one another. Pearl Harbor had been bombed by the Japs--we already knew who the Japs were--Hollywood had done its job on that. But nobody knew anything else except that PH was in Hawaii. And, I remember the next 3-4 years, too.
Dick

Dick:

I remember hearing the radio announcing that they had hit PH and I had to ask my mother what it meant, "to be at war". Like you, I remember the next 3-4 years very vividly. I had a cousin wounded at Tarawa and the kid next door (about 19) never made it back from Anzio. I guess we grew up real fast back then. Being from a real melting pot neighborhood (Polish, German, Checzk, Bohemian, Hungarian and Russian) it was amazing how everyone pulled together. There were a lot of blue star flags hanging in windows then. A lot of gold ones too.

Semper Fi

Ski

P.S. Wasn't that about the time when the Green Hornets sidekick, Cato turned from Japanese to Filipino in one week?

It wasn't long before All the young men in the neighborhood disappeared through the recruiting offices/draft boards. My favorite uncle had to wait a few weeks/months until he was 17, then joined the Corps--ended up in 18thMarines, 2dMarDiv, and Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan/Tinian, and, finally in '45, Floyd Bennet Field and discharged.

My buddy and I were coming out of a movie theater { Gone With The Wind } when we heard the news. Where was Pearl Harbor?. My older brother joined up the next week. I was only sixteen so I had to wait for 3 months to join.The corps would not let me sign up until I finished my Junior year in high school. One week after that I was on my way to San Diego. Three months after that I was on the USS Matsonia heading for New Zealand. It was an all expense paid trip that lasted for 25 months with the 6th Reg. 2nd Div.

Last night my young grnadson (6years old) was visiting me and he and I were looking at my scrapbook of Marines things, when we got to the Iwakuni items he saw many picture of Hiroshima as I visited there many times during my tours at Iwakuni. I also had an old book I pick up there about the bombings. In the book are many pictures of the wiped out city and the few buildings left standing after the big hit plus pictures of the many burned and injuied people including little children. Joey asked me what happen and I tried to explain to him what war is and how bad it is for all people. He asked me why were you a Marine, Pop and with a tear or two in my eyes I told him, so that we would never have another war where big and little people would get hurtand that he could live in peace his entire life.
By the way the little guy wants to be a Marine flyer in helos. I would like to see him enter EOD if he had to be in the service. Maybe by the time he is old enough, the jerks in DC can find a better way to fight a battle and not commit our boys and girls into another engagement.

Bomber

Ski after we got back stateside from
Japan and got into Bn. Motor
transport 6th.Marines Found a way
to fix them hamburger & sausage
patties:Swipe a big onion and potato
from the mess hall,take a c ration
can punch a few holes at the top fill
about half full of sand ,then put a
little gas in there ,throw a match to
it and cook the onions,potatoes and
hamburger or sausage patty for awhile,
Just like eating at McDonalds almost
as good as SOS.
Wofford
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