Re: [SilverStreak] Fw: Comments made from 1955...........

["Tom Patterson" <pattersontj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lets keep this sort of stuff off of the list.

-Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cjohn" <cjohn@olympus.net>
To: "WILLIAM C ISENBERGER" <ISENBERGER0360@MSN.COM>; "Thea" 
<thea@riseup.net>; "support" <support@rvexit.com>; 
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Subject: [SilverStreak] Fw: Comments made from 1955...........


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lloyd Frissell
> To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 1:04 PM
> Subject: Fw: Comments made from 1955...........
>
> Comments made in the year 1955, That's only 53 years ago!
>
> 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.
>
> ''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 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 anywhere 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 haircut, forget it.
>