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Friday, June 14, 2019
The Golden Time in 1959
This post is not about anything special or imbued with great meaning. It is simply a reflection of that golden time of the 1950s.
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Oh my gosh! $35 a day in the hospital!
ReplyDeletePretty amazing isn't it!
DeleteThose people must be shocked into a coma by now. And some baseball players make that number with two more zeroes at the end.
ReplyDeleteI can't help wonder if the zeroes keep coming.
DeleteI wasn't around for the fifties, I read that they weren't as golden for everyone as they're made out to be, and I sort of wish I'd lived through them. The sixties get all of the attention and glory, but the fifties were eventful.
ReplyDeleteThe WW2 vets made the 50s what it was. Technology, skilled labor force, ingenuity...they had it.
DeleteI'm smiling as I read Harry's comment. They were golden to us. Our first son was 1 yr old in '59. We married in the mid 50's and I can relate to the statements you published. I no longer smoke, but I can remember vividly when they reached 25 a pack saying: I will QUIT if they ever reach 30 cents a pack. And YEP about the Volkswagen statement. At that time the VW was the only prominent foreign car in the USA.
ReplyDeleteTHANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, to quote OLD Bob Hope!
Have a good day kid! Loved it.
Sherry & jack
I had no thought about our 1950s world ever changing.
DeleteMoney - that's the eternal subject, and the world looks worse and worse because of it.
ReplyDeleteMoney, oh how inflation and cost of living changed.
DeleteI was 10 to 19 years old during the 1950s, going from delightful innocence to waking up the injustices of the world.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing, those changes in just a few decades.
DeleteI was 9 in '59 … so yes, this sure resonates!
ReplyDeleteWe were there.
DeleteI was 12 in 1959. The fifties were a time of plenty until the end of the decade. Most families had a car. Nice houses to rent were plentiful. And I made 25 cents an hour for babysitting.
ReplyDelete$25/hour! Now it is nearly $15 or more.
ReplyDeleteChange that: 25 cents/ hour.
DeleteI was born in the 50's what a decade, and then we had the 60's … great times.
ReplyDeleteBut I do my best to make today a great time too :)
All the best Jan
The 60s--what a time. I love the fashions of the 50s and 60s.
DeleteWhen Ike was elected, I could suddenly read. I'll always be grateful.
ReplyDeleteIt was magic, right? Me, too!
DeleteThe more things change...
ReplyDeleteThey then keep changing.
DeleteSure must roll over in their grave about how much sports stars get paid now.
ReplyDeleteThey could not have imagined it, I am sure.
DeleteI often think back to my childhood. There were indeed so many things that we all did not know and could not possibly know. I wonder what I would go back and tell myself if I could do so.
ReplyDeleteI've thought of that as well.
DeleteDefinitely the more things change...
ReplyDeleteI suspect those things are (mostly) still being said (with much bigger base numbers).
When my father first started work in Australia (in the fifties) his wage was 400 pounds a year. Which he told me he thought of us unheard of wealth.
It would have been, in today's comparison. Wow.
DeleteI was twelve....I just took an internet test that promised to tell me my mental age if I answered all their questions...they said I was twlve. Some things never change I guess.
ReplyDelete12 was good, yes? We took those tests too, but were never told how we did.
DeleteToo funny.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it! I remember a loaf of bread being about 25 cents.
DeleteThe power of half-a-centry of inflation. Though buying power hasn't changed much.
ReplyDeleteIt really hasn't.
DeleteI was possibly a twinkle in my father's eye, but I am otherwise unable to relate to 1959. I enjoyed reading comments from those who DID remember it, though.
ReplyDeleteYou are such a kid!
DeleteFor a minute there I was astonished at cigarettes being a quarter, then I remembered being sent around to the corner store to get ciggies for my dad at 2 shillings, roughly equal to 20 cents. In later years, my first husband swore he'd give up smoking if cigarettes became $5 per pack. He didn't give up, and now here in Australia smokes are very expensive, some brands being almost $50 a pack.
ReplyDelete$50 a pack? If that wouldn't make people give up smoking!
DeleteTimes sure have changed. People still complain obout those things, all you have to do is update the numbers to todays prices. I remember going to the store to buy cigarettes for my cousin and she wrote a note so I could get them for her. She was sick and the store was on the corner. The cost was 20 cents.
ReplyDeleteMy youngest sister was born in 59.
Then kids could walk in with a note, buy the cigarettes. Now, I think kids have to be 18?
DeleteI wasn't born in the 50's either, but it's an era I love, the music and fashion. As soon as I read 1959 I immediately thought of the 3rd February of that year, the day Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash.
ReplyDeleteWhen that happened, I was 8 and knew nothing of that music. We lived in a farm area where 'modern' music was not part of our lives. Now, of course, I recognize the impact of that event.
DeleteI remember even in the sixties when people said, "If parking downtown gets to a dollar a day, I am going to have to reconsider how I get to work!"
ReplyDeleteI am giggling.
DeleteI remember thinking gas at 70 cents the gallon was expensive, and my first comic book was the last 12 cent one...
ReplyDeleteThat is so funny. I remember those very well. When the comic books were soon 25 cents, I had to scrounge for money.
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