The following were some comments made in the year 1957:

• "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 $20.00."
• "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when $5000 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, 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,"
• "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,"
• "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 new movie has either Hell or damn 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 that they will 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."
• "Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorces at the drop of a hat."
• "I'm just 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 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 any more, $35.00 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood."