Have you ever noticed how sometimes the most random things just come into your mind? Don't ask me why tomatoes and Bread popped in this morning. I guess it is because I was making a bacon, tomato sandwich with whole wheat bread. Anyway I was remembering a few years back (about 1953 or so) when we were in a grocery store. My dad said something like this. "I'm telling you, someday we will be paying a whole dollar for a loaf of bread, if prices keep rising like this". The loaf of bread that I was making my sandwich with today cost over $5.00, my dad would not believe it. Now about the tomato. I remember a dear friend I were talking about how much we loved tomatoes, she said they were getting so expensive that is why she started growing them (this also was many years ag0) I think they were 39 cents a pound. I told her I didn't care if I had to pay $1.00 a piece for them I would still buy them. The other day when I went to get some tomatoes they were $2.39 a pound. (they were from California, the best) I picked out two because I just had to have them. (ours are not doing well this year) The bill was 2.39, just exactly a pound. Did I say I would still buy a tomato even if I had to pay a dollar for it? Yep, I did.
A few other things I remember hearing around 1955.
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.”
“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.”
“Marriage doesn’t mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.” Thank goodness the rest of us are staying together.
“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 on a vacation for a weekend any more, 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.”
On a Friday night "dragging the main" a dollar would buy a hamburger, a coke, french fries and a gallon of gas, with change left over. Those were the days, we went downtown every weekend. Fresno, California late 50's, early 60's
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